[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
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       Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
        
       I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does
       have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and
       create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the
       last 6 months of HN stories and comments.  Would love to hear
       feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.
        
       Author : ofermend
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-07-02 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hackernews.demo.vectara.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hackernews.demo.vectara.com)
        
       | wjb3 wrote:
       | Excellent!
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better
       | about the Vectara solution?
       | 
       | Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time
       | window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and
       | so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to
       | turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5
       | queries I ran.
       | 
       | You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine
       | adventures, which is commendable.
        
         | mikepurvis wrote:
         | If it's searching article content as well as just
         | titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful.
         | I've long wanted something like that for my browser history,
         | like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last
         | week about X."
        
           | metadat wrote:
           | Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser
           | history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet.
           | 
           | It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep
           | search capability that indexes all first-order links on this
           | site.
        
             | nashashmi wrote:
             | [delayed]
        
       | owenpalmer wrote:
       | Cool, I like it!
       | 
       | I found a bug. Under the "When will GPT-5 be released?" search
       | results, there are double duplicate results. On one of the
       | duplicates, the "username (date)" says "undefined (undefined)"
        
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