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Re:Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Vide... on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:46PM (#47872067)
The vector graphics are why I always seek this game out first in any arcade.
Re:Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Vide... on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:45PM (#47872063)
Wait. Did you never play Kaboom? Kaboom was awesome!
Re:Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:28PM (#47116911)
Hmmm. Should update more often than that. Let me check!
Re:Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived on Sunday February 22, 2026 @07:42PM (#47116557)
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.

Re:Show HN: Updates to Search Hacker News on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:54PM (#37874133)
Yup. Definitely not for the first or last time, either.

Show HN: Updates to Search Hacker News

Posted by chuckmeyer on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:00AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://hn.aloglia.com

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...

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Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:03PM (#37822555)
DNS is reverted and should be back up based on your local TTLs/caching.

Sorry about that, everyone!

Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:02PM (#37822547)
Nope -- we're global. Paris, Sydney, SF, London, Austin, NYC, Belarus -- and lots of remote rolls. Send me a resume if you're looking!
Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:57PM (#37822474)
Correct. We run it as a managed service now -- it's free for technical blogs and documentation sites.
Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:56PM (#37822456)
https://www.algolia.com/blog/customers/hacker-news-search-al...
Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:56PM (#37822442)
It's mostly a tech-stack update, but it resolves some longstanding edge cases in the search UI as well. I'll try to get a changelog when we have it up and running.
Re:DNS record "hn.algolia.com" is gone on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:43PM (#37822259)
Algolian here -- We were rolling out a new version of the HN search but accidentally swapped over the DNS before we were ready.

I've got a group of folks over here working to restore the search. Sorry for the downtime, but it's nice to know the search is useful to so many!

Re:Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slac... on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:28AM (#32397543)
This is cool! Let me know if you'd be interested in using Algolia for the search piece. It would be a fun implementation and should fall under the not-for-profit program.