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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by mircea on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:01PM (#49745779)
On HN does it capture both the HN post page and the target page?

E.g.: for this submission I would want both https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097 and https://github.com/asciimoo/hister captured.

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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by asciimoo on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:08PM (#49745844)
The extension captures the content of the opened tabs, it does not create new requests. If you open both, it captures both.
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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by iririririr on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:40PM (#49746239)
You may be the first "search engine" capable of indexing instagram and other closed sites.
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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by asciimoo on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:52PM (#49746399)
Exactly, this is the biggest advantage of the extension. It is fully invisible for the websites, so no captcha, anti-bot protection, no authentication issues, every common bottleneck of a classic crawler is solved by the browser/user.
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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by asimovDev on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:08AM (#49751477)
Oh, I haven't considered the possibility of indexing things like Instagram or Discord with this. I am now much more interested than before
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Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a... by hipjiveguy on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:16AM (#49774656)
Wouldn't Google be doing this already as they own Chrome of course, which knows what you're looking at?
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