« BackAlgolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archivedgithub.comSubmitted by maguszin 3 hours ago
  • chuckmeyer 10 minutes 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.

    • xnx 2 hours ago

      Does this indicate a new HN search could be coming?

      • marginalia_nu 2 hours 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.

    • JoshGlazebrook an hour ago

      Wasn't aware that this backend ran on rails.

      • mihaelm an hour 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 24 minutes ago

          That's ok, you're here for AI.

      • h4ch1 2 hours ago

        Hmm, I've been getting "Algolia API failed" on Harmonic for the past day, was wondering what could be going on.

        • NSPG911 an hour ago

          I've been having issues logging into my HN account on Harmonic for quite a while, now this, the API is down :/

        • SilverElfin 2 hours ago

          Is there a place to get an archive of all HN posts and historical comments?

          • kmmbvnr_ 26 minutes ago

            Check HackerBook https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook

            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 an hour 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 an hour ago

                There's a BigQuery public dataset

                  bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full
                • krapp 2 hours 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.

                • ChrisArchitect an hour 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

                  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44934518

                  • sciurus an hour ago

                    The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."