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MarginaliaSearch
Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web.
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devlensOSS
An Open Source Intelligent Codebase Visualizer for javascript, reactjs, nextjs and nodejs for easy PR review, fast Onboarding and deep architectural understanding
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dirac
Open Source Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively parallel operations, AST manipulation and many many other optimizations. https://dirac.run/
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as-notes
VS Code Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS) - Markdown Editing, Wikilinks (inc. Nested), Tasks, Kanban, Files, Publish to HTML, Daily Journal, Encrypted Notes
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riot
Discontinued Go Open Source, Distributed, Simple and efficient Search Engine; Warning: This is V1 and beta version, because of big memory consume, and the V2 will be rewrite all code. (by go-ego)
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console
Closed-loop application library for Cobra commands (powerful, ready-to-run and easy to use) (by reeflective)
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opal
A git enabled local-first browser-first markdown workspace wysiwyg editor and publisher. Built with mdx-editor, code mirror 6, react, shadcn and typescript (by rbbydotdev)
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searcher
Discontinued Run a base query (plus optional add-ons) through ask, bing, brave, duck duck go, yahoo, and yandex. [GET https://api.github.com/repos/davemolk/searcher: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
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blast
Discontinued Blast is a full text search and indexing server, written in Go, built on top of Bleve.
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce dependence on online search engines.
Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides offline result previews, a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore saved content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.
I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi - and even websites listed in results - more and more frequently.
The initial reception is overwhelmingly positive with already more than 30 contributors and hundreds of contributions - perhaps you can find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])
GitHub: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
Website: https://hister.org/
Small read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/
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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI
I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister (https://hister.org/ - https://github.com/asciimoo/hister) with the goal to reduce dependence on online search engines and AI answers.
Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface with offline result previews & detailed query language to explore collected content or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.
It can provide a privacy-respecting search experience for serving "recall" type searches where users retrieve previously visited content, but falls short in "discovery" type searches (yet).
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Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
Thank you so much, Adam! Hister [1] is also an amazing option for people looking to have their own "local" index! And it's FOSS!
[1] : https://hister.org
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DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
I'm seeing the same increased activity around my search engine project (https://github.com/asciimoo/hister). While Google's decision is very controversial, it's good to see that people are seeking for alternatives - nice motivation boost to keep developing alternative search projects.
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Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
It isn't supported yet, but it's a good idea and quite simple to implement it. I've added it to the issue tracker: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/issues/431 . Thanks for the suggestion.
- You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
- Google Search as you know it is over
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)
I'll continue to work on https://github.com/asciimoo/hister as much as I can. I plan to add new extractors and optimize the indexer storage usage by moving out HTML/favicon content from the index and storing them in an efficient compressed way.
Hister is a free general purpose web search engine providing automatic full-text indexing for visited websites.
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How I Use Hister
In this post I'd like to share how I (@asciimoo - the author of Hister) use Hister to maximize my productivity and privacy.
- Data Indexing in Golang
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asciimoo/hister is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of hister is Go.
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