alt.hn

2/22/2026 at 9:41:27 PM

Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

by maguszin

2/23/2026 at 12:42:14 AM

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.

by chuckmeyer

2/23/2026 at 6:32:40 AM

OMG, I'd love to fix that date picker. It is just so horribly broken, it causes me PTSD.

by seg_lol

2/23/2026 at 4:25:45 PM

Please make it public

by etyhhgfff

2/23/2026 at 12:54:48 AM

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?

by burnt-resistor

2/23/2026 at 1:28:38 AM

Hmmm. Should update more often than that. Let me check!

by chuckmeyer

2/23/2026 at 1:32:40 AM

Both HN clients that I use are failing to load/update. I think they both pull data from the Algolia search endpoints.

by jtokoph

2/23/2026 at 7:13:03 AM

Thank you

by maguszin

2/22/2026 at 11:13:05 PM

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

by h4ch1

2/22/2026 at 11:24:21 PM

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

by NSPG911

2/22/2026 at 10:57:16 PM

Does this indicate a new HN search could be coming?

by xnx

2/22/2026 at 11:12:38 PM

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.

by marginalia_nu

2/23/2026 at 9:10:14 AM

I would like to have again possibility to sort comments by popularity.

by bags43

2/22/2026 at 11:26:30 PM

Wasn't aware that this backend ran on rails.

by JoshGlazebrook

2/23/2026 at 12:01:22 AM

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.

by mihaelm

2/23/2026 at 12:28:16 AM

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

by latchkey

2/22/2026 at 11:09:42 PM

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

by SilverElfin

2/23/2026 at 12:26:08 AM

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.

by kmmbvnr_

2/22/2026 at 11:49:47 PM

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.

by nomilk

2/22/2026 at 11:36:47 PM

There's a BigQuery public dataset

  bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full

by StrangeSound

2/22/2026 at 11:18:18 PM

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.

by krapp

2/23/2026 at 6:46:15 AM

[dead]

by NedF

2/22/2026 at 11:25:33 PM

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

by ChrisArchitect

2/22/2026 at 11:32:31 PM

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

by sciurus