algolia/hn-search on Hacker News

…a quick-for-me workaround. Looking at the repo, though, it was discontinued several months ago. https://github.com/algolia/hn-search Wonder how much longer it'll be online for

comment by lucb1e · 2026-05-15 · in Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

They had one small ingestion issue on august 2025 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/248

comment by maguszin · 2026-02-22 · in Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

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Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

story by maguszin · 2026-02-22 · 23 comments

The search is rails, were you being funny with the 'gems' bit? https://github.com/algolia/hn-search You can already access all your upvotes in your user page, so this might be an easy patch?

comment by bbarnett · 2025-08-17 · in When did AI take over Hacker News?

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HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

story by busymom0 · 2025-08-17 · 50 comments

Is it possible to add the alternative ("OR") operator? https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/169

comment by niutech · 2024-08-19 · in History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024

…show the new content. The vast majority of the rest of the app works fine. Issue filed on Github: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/233

comment by busymom0 · 2022-11-29 · in Hacker News Search on Algolia is down

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Hacker News Search on Algolia is down

story by busymom0 · 2022-11-29 · 2 comments

…not much hnrss can do until the API starts working again. https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/issues/77 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/233

comment by edavis · 2022-11-29 · in Ask HN: Is Hnrss.org Working for Everyone?

…not much hnrss can do until the API starts working again. https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/issues/77 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/233

comment by edavis · 2022-11-29 · in Ask HN: What Happened to Hacker News RSS

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Tell HN: hnrss.org RSS Feeds Broken due to Algolia issue

story by rcarmo · 2022-11-29 · 0 comments

…issues with HN’s search; looked for a known related issue, but was unable to find any: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues Found it via this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+search+popularit... ____________

comment by O__________O · 2022-08-20 · in Ask HN: Is this a bug in HN’s search?

…API. https://hn.algolia.com/cool_apps I submitted a pull request to add your site to the list. https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/214

comment by jstrieb · 2021-09-02 · in Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile

This is great. I was suggesting a similar feature for search HN literally only a couple of weeks ago: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/207 Looking forward to using!

comment by nomilk · 2021-05-23 · in Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News

Correct, and the source code is here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by redox_ · 2019-10-17 · in Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service

Maybe copy one of the existing ones: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/tree/master/app/assets/...

comment by rahimnathwani · 2019-03-25 · in Are there dark themes for HN which also incorporate algolia?

Would love to merge any PR you would think about for adding a dark theme to our GH repository: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by redox_ · 2019-03-23 · in Are there dark themes for HN which also incorporate algolia?

…sharing with us some non-working queries? We can follow-up here and you can also open issues on https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by redox_ · 2019-01-15 · in Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine

You should submit a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues I'm wondering whether the http://hn.algolia.com/opensearch.xml configuration could help here, might need to tweak it a bit.

comment by redox_ · 2018-09-03 · in The Performance Cost of CORS Requests on Single-Page Applications

I just filed https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/104 after editing the HN title and discovering problems.

comment by yuhong · 2017-11-12 · in Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016)

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Non-BMP characters broken in HN titles

story by yuhong · 2017-11-12 · 0 comments

…and whether or not they've been maintained is unknown. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2] https://github.com/algolia/hn-search [3] https://archive.org/details/HackerNewsStoriesAndCommentsDump [4]…

comment by jcr · 2015-08-12 · in Ask HN: Any HN stats analysis been done?

Also, for any search specific feature requests you can open a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by redox_ · 2015-08-07 · in HN Feature Request

Indeed, we never took the time to plug a date parser. Any chance you've time for a pull-request? https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/blob/master/app/assets/... and https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/blob/master/app/control... :) That…

comment by redox_ · 2015-02-25 · in Better HN search with bash

…) but I discovered that it seems there's some hard limits to how much of my data I can reach: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/36

comment by gwern · 2014-10-07 · in Hacker News API

I had the same need, but didn't want to use Yahoo! pipes, so I submitted a small patch: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27

comment by rahimnathwani · 2014-08-17 · in Ask HN: What tools/add-ons/sites do you use to get most out of Hacker News?

…shows in the box, but the results are different. I've submitted an issue on GitHub to address this: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/41

comment by DanielStraight · 2014-08-13 · in Input, a customizable font family (sans, serif, mono) for code

Almost yes; I've just updated our README to explain how to contribute + add default configurations: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search#contribution

comment by redox_ · 2014-03-27 · in Ask HN: How do you follow your favourite people on HN

…to install and run it? I mean, can I just do the following? - (Install ruby and rails) - git clone https://github.com/algolia/hn-search - bundle - rails server

comment by rahimnathwani · 2014-03-27 · in Ask HN: How do you follow your favourite people on HN

…familiar with ruby/rails, feel free to create a pull-request directly on our github repository: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search (we've already some code generating feeds: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/blob/master/app/control...…

comment by redox_ · 2014-03-27 · in Ask HN: How do you follow your favourite people on HN

Yep, will be easier :) Just opened a feature-request about it. ( https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/25 )

comment by redox_ · 2014-03-23 · in HN Search updated again

Right, and actually I've opened a feature-request about that a few days ago ( https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/24 ). Gonna work on it in the next few days.

comment by redox_ · 2014-03-22 · in HN Search updated again

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HN Search updated again

story by redox_ · 2014-03-22 · 29 comments

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HN Search updated

story by jlemoine · 2014-03-21 · 4 comments

You've got an extra dot. Here https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by justhw · 2014-03-15 · in HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today

…is different (but I feel it is overall better and they've been responsive to inquiries on github https://github.com/algolia/hn-search ). Technically, you likely would have had to change your code a month ago or so. From what I can tell,…

comment by jaredsohn · 2014-03-15 · in HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today

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Suggest HN: Please keep hnsearch.com up (shutting tomorrow)

story by cjbarber · 2014-03-14 · 2 comments

hn.algolia.com is also fully opensource, so pull requests are welcome: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by jlemoine · 2014-03-06 · in Suggest HN: Please keep hnsearch.com up

…Will improve that asap. Btw, do not hesitate to open feature-requests on our github project: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

comment by redox_ · 2014-02-16 · in Tell HN: Search is weird on mobile devices