Show HN: Updates to Search Hacker News

Show HN: Updates to Search Hacker News(hn.aloglia.com)

20 points by chuckmeyer 2 years ago | 9 comments

We’ve released a new version of the HackerNews search tool available from the bottom of this page. CHANGELOG: Backend - Rewrote the indexing process and web server - Now running on cloud infrastructure (GCP) - Improved speed of get object API endpoint - No more need for a database, so we removed it - Fixed indexing logic for story types - Fixed indexing logic for updated items Frontend - You can now filter by story type! - Removed Popularity sort-by on Comments and Jobs (Score isn’t retrievable so sort-by popular was prioritizing old comments) - Removed "all" filter type (let us know if you used this) - Fixed some display issues with stories and comments - Updated the Algolia logo

To search for this post: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...

mcint 2 years ago |

I appreciate the post on the update!

I did use the "all" search, I made search engine shortcuts for all "hn", stories "hns", and comments "hnc" in my chromium* search engine settings. The all search now returns nothing. I like to cast a wide net in search results. I don't think I'll search for many of these categories in most queries, if pressed, but I also won't discover them. May motivate me to index hn myself as some of my friends have.

I appreciate surfacing the other formal and informal categories of posts in the hacker news repertoire, and it's fantastic to be able to filter strongly by category, but I don't like that I will now have to always pre-select, pre-commit, to the singular category I want to find matches in. I suspect some halfway solution, like match-counts of other categories, would be nearly comparably expensive to returning results for all, in terms of query cost and maintenance or complexity burden.

I'm also seeing text styling issues in the menus in settings: white text on white background, in both default and experimental skins, and light and dark modes of experimental skin. I checked in incognito to be sure it's not my extensions affecting display, nor Brave resource blocking.

hollerith 2 years ago | |

>The all search now returns nothing.

There is a workaround for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37883876

mcint 2 years ago | | |

Thank you! Including inline since I appreciate it so much

  &type=story&type=comment

can be used to replace (the same, or most of the same functionality of)

  &type=all

in the search area.

rokkitmensch 2 years ago |

Did this break per-user RSS feeds?

cylinder714 2 years ago |

You misspelled your own URL....

chuckmeyer 2 years ago | |

Yup. Definitely not for the first or last time, either.

saran945 2 years ago |

I use HN search a lot. Thanks for adding search by types - stories, show hn etc...

If you move the search box at the top, that would be great.

hollerith 2 years ago | |

The ability to restrict results to stories has been there all along.