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Fast trigram based code search

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2023-07-04 · latest 2026-04-29

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  1. …s://github.com/stepbrobd/inc/blob/master/modules/nixos/n... ) The code search engine reusing [zoekt]( https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt ) as library (in the module, its the api backend but the stock web interface is quite usable) and…
    comment by StepBroBD · 2026-04-29 · in Declarative Git repo sync/migration tool and self hosted code search engine
  2. https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt Run a copy of this in the same VPC. Monorepos would definitely help, but that's not the structure we have. I didn't want to rely on API limits (or stability) at GitHub for such a core feature. Using…
    comment by auszeph · 2026-04-10 · in Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs
  3. How does it compare with https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt ?
    comment by esafak · 2026-03-29 · in Spot – Git repo code search, replace, diff and merge
  4. …Currently, it runs on a single Google Cloud VM with 16 vCPUs, 60G RAM and an attached physical SSD. https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt/blob/main/doc/faq.md#wh... so at least they were using Zoekt up until a certain point in the past.
    comment by sluongng · 2025-12-05 · in Fast trigram based code search
  5. …the UI seems very useful as-is even if you had to fork it and build a new community from there. [1] https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt
    comment by spmurrayzzz · 2024-10-02 · in Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative
  6. …Demo: https://cs.bazel.build/ If you’re curious about the source, as I was, here it is: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt/blob/main/web/templates...
    comment by maxloh · 2024-10-02 · in Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative
  7. …https://github.com/izihawa/summa I tried to implement trigram search on object storage using Zoekt: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt , but I found that common queries load 30-40% of the entire index, so setting it up without some kind…
    comment by maxmcd · 2024-09-30 · in Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)
  8. …sizes was one of the things I had to ensure Zoekt could do in its JSON APIs that I use in neogrok: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt/pull/615
    comment by isker · 2024-04-10 · in Code search is hard
  9. …much smaller, but gives less precise (ie. slower) matching. This is mentioned in the design doc at https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt/blob/main/doc/design.md... .
    comment by hanwenn · 2023-11-21 · in Code Search at Google: Han-Wen and Zoekt
  10. …spinazie eten" - Jan Eertink > ("seek, and ye shall eat spinach" - My primary school teacher) [1] https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt
    comment by tromp · 2023-11-21 · in Code Search at Google: Han-Wen and Zoekt
  11. https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt seems to be doing a fair amount of heavy lifting for Cody.
    comment by ilaksh · 2023-08-27 · in Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase
  12. …https://github.com/Debian/dcs [2]: https://github.com/Debian/dcs/blob/main/howto/building.md [3]: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt [4]: https://github.com/google/codesearch [5]: https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep [6]:…
    comment by smarx007 · 2023-07-04 · in Sourcegraph is no longer open source
  13. …to Zoekt, the open source code search engine, and will continue to upstream changes to it. https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt > The source code will remain publicly available. > Individual devs will still be able to use Sourcegraph for…
    comment by rattray · 2023-07-04 · in Sourcegraph is no longer open source