Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

(github.com)

75 points | by maguszin 4 hours ago

6 comments

chuckmeyer 1 hour 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.
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- burnt-resistor 1 hour 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?
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  - chuckmeyer 43 minutes ago
    Hmmm. Should update more often than that. Let me check!
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    - jtokoph 39 minutes ago
      Both HN clients that I use are failing to load/update. I think they both pull data from the Algolia search endpoints.
xnx 3 hours ago
Does this indicate a new HN search could be coming?
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- 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.
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  - maguszin 2 hours ago
    They had one small ingestion issue on august 2025 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/248
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.
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- NSPG911 2 hours ago
  I've been having issues logging into my HN account on Harmonic for quite a while, now this, the API is down :/
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JoshGlazebrook 2 hours ago
Wasn't aware that this backend ran on rails.
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- mihaelm 2 hours 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.
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  - latchkey 1 hour ago
    That's ok, you're here for AI.
SilverElfin 3 hours ago
Is there a place to get an archive of all HN posts and historical comments?
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- kmmbvnr_ 1 hour 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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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
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- sciurus 2 hours ago
  The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."