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chuckmeyer 3 days ago [-]
Algolia DevRel here. An amazing dev named Jeff Slentz did a full rewrite about a year ago, which is what the current search runs on.
The new search is currently in a private repo, but I can see about getting it turned public if people would like to peruse the code.
seg_lol 2 days ago [-]
OMG, I'd love to fix that date picker. It is just so horribly broken, it causes me PTSD.
mcint 18 hours ago [-]
I would appreciate it. It’s such a joy to use, to share, and (admitting I haven’t) nice to see & share the code & configuration to feed algolia, on a more serious scale of us than I’m likely to use in a hobby project or find/grok/share another public example with code + data.
burnt-resistor 3 days ago [-]
Had me scared for a moment that it was running Ruby 2.6 and Rails 5.1.7 in prod. :'D
FYI: The hn search index I'm seeing is about 9 hours old as of 2026-02-23T00:53:00Z. Is that right?
chuckmeyer 3 days ago [-]
Hmmm. Should update more often than that. Let me check!
jtokoph 3 days ago [-]
Both HN clients that I use are failing to load/update. I think they both pull data from the Algolia search endpoints.
maguszin 2 days ago [-]
Thank you
etyhhgfff 2 days ago [-]
Please make it public
h4ch1 3 days ago [-]
Hmm, I've been getting "Algolia API failed" on Harmonic for the past day, was wondering what could be going on.
NSPG911 3 days ago [-]
I've been having issues logging into my HN account on Harmonic for quite a while, now this, the API is down :/
3 days ago [-]
xnx 3 days ago [-]
Does this indicate a new HN search could be coming?
marginalia_nu 3 days ago [-]
Doesn't seem to have been touched for 3 years. Might be they consider it complete, but given the number of issues and PRs that's been gathering in those 3 years, it feels more like it's abandoned.
Repo packages 20 years of Hacker News into a static archive you can run entirely in your browser. The site is just files: HTML, JSON, and gzipped SQLite shards. No server app required.
nomilk 3 days ago [-]
Easiest way might be to use google cloud's 'bigquery' tool which lets you query hn data with SQL
I just tried
SELECT *
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
and it returns 47049059 rows. And
SELECT
MAX(timestamp) AS most_recent_timestamp
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`;
gives 2026-02-21 09:12:49 UTC, so it checks out.
StrangeSound 3 days ago [-]
There's a BigQuery public dataset
bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full
krapp 3 days ago [-]
There are some data sets but Hacker News has a non rate-limited API (see the bottom of the page) so you can just build one yourself.
I don't think you can get the content of flagged posts without actually scraping the site but that'll get you banned.
NedF 2 days ago [-]
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JoshGlazebrook 3 days ago [-]
Wasn't aware that this backend ran on rails.
mihaelm 3 days ago [-]
Ruby is a sleeper for me. I wasn’t around when Ruby on Rails was all the rage for startups, so I always get surprised when I learn that so-and-so started off as a Ruby project.
But it totally makes sense considering its style.
latchkey 3 days ago [-]
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bags43 2 days ago [-]
I would like to have again possibility to sort comments by popularity.
ChrisArchitect 3 days ago [-]
This isn't 'archived' - it's just the source code of HN Search. And place for reporting problems, like back in August when it wasn't ingesting data briefly
The new search is currently in a private repo, but I can see about getting it turned public if people would like to peruse the code.
FYI: The hn search index I'm seeing is about 9 hours old as of 2026-02-23T00:53:00Z. Is that right?
Repo packages 20 years of Hacker News into a static archive you can run entirely in your browser. The site is just files: HTML, JSON, and gzipped SQLite shards. No server app required.
I just tried
and it returns 47049059 rows. And gives 2026-02-21 09:12:49 UTC, so it checks out.I don't think you can get the content of flagged posts without actually scraping the site but that'll get you banned.
But it totally makes sense considering its style.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44934518