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Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by mcovalt on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:29AM (#24079671)
I spend a lot of time trying to find articles I once read on here via Google with...

  site:news.ycombinator.com some term
...but a many times "some term" is not in the title of the HN post, but in the body of the article. I didn't see any other tools that did this for HN.
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by walterbell on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:33PM (#24088206)
There's also Algolia, https://hn.algolia.com
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by tomhoward on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:44AM (#24089616)
It doesn't index the article contents though; only the story titles and comments, same as Google.
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:05PM (#24192095)
How did you come to this conclusion with respect to hndex?

Most articles have no comments. Yet one can search on hndex for terms only found in the article, not in the title.

Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by tomhoward on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:47PM (#24212534)
I wasn't really saying anything about hndex, apart from that it indexes the contents of external articles submitted to HN, as you said.

The correction I was making was about HN Algolia search (which is linked from the search box at the bottom of each HN page), which only indexes content on news.ycombinator.com itself – i.e., article titles, comments and text-only posts like Show/Ask HN – but not the external content in submitted articles.

Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by city41 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:24PM (#24093365)
It does seem to have a much larger index though, which for me at least makes it more useful. Hopefully hndex's index will grow.
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by cxr on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:33PM (#24087519)
Consider expanding the scope to index links posted in user comments, too.
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by danielskogly on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:15AM (#24089504)
This is really useful! You might want to consider hiding the “More”-button if the current page isn’t filled up, so as to not just have an empty page when clicking it.

For some reason I couldn’t find my own blog post[0], even when searching for the embarrassing typo I made in the title - acommodating.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23426951

Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by lhoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:40AM (#24092465)
Very nice. Works as expected. I stumbled about two things that could be improved:

- Add a search Button for convenient mobile use or if a user copy pasts things into to the search field using the mouse

- Add a comment counter on the result page, Since you index every article a lot of them have none or very few comments.

Oh and just a warning, depending on the jurisdiction providing the cache could be problematic under copyright laws since its basically a copy of the article.

Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by run2arun on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:31PM (#24092894)
For that specific use case, you can try the intitle keyword

  site:news.ycombinator.com intitle:"some term"
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by owenversteeg on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:43PM (#24088255)
Yes, me too! This is really great, thanks! I'll definitely be using it.
Re:Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of article... by browsergap on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:06AM (#24089928)
what are you using to do the full text search?