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quickwit
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
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cody
Type less, code more: Cody is an AI code assistant that uses advanced search and codebase context to help you write and fix code.
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opengrok
OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
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Ask HN: Hosted Tools at Work
At work I host a couple of internal tools for myself and my coworkers that I expose with a web UI. Most of them are useful productivity tools. My favorite:
- Hound for indexing and searching internal repos with RegEx https://github.com/hound-search/hound
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Sourcegraph Went Dark
For code search, I've heard Hound is pretty good but I haven't personally tried it yet. The UI is a bit clunky though. I'm wondering if one can port the old Apache-licensed Sourcegraph UI? https://github.com/hound-search/hound
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Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
Another resource is a trigram search index (in Go) used by etsy/hound[0] based on an article (and code) from Russ Cox: Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index[1].
[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound
[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
Different use-cases for alternatives to Lucene depending on your needs.
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Code Search at Google: The Story of Han-Wen and Zoekt
The same algorithm is also used in Hound (https://github.com/hound-search/hound) though I have to say the best implementation of code search by far that I've seen is https://grep.app
You really should check it out if you haven't already. It's incredibly useful; I used it all the time. Not open source though.
- Hound: Fast code searching made easy
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Sourcegraph is no longer Open Source
There is also Hound [8].
[8]: https://github.com/hound-search/hound
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DockerHub replacement stratagy and options
Agreed, I already have Hound setup to search across all the different repos I pull from (bitbucket, gh, gitlab, gitea etc) but now I need to find a docker equivalent.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
i know you're looking for first-party tools that is part of the whole package, but hound does this fantastically and is extremely easy to setup, and is ridiculously fast.
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Ask HN: How do you search large code-base before adding a feature or fixing bug?
Especially if this is long term, this is a great tool:
https://github.com/hound-search/hound#hound
It would be great if someone integrated this with tree-sitter plus something to make the search semantics a bit smarter about usages of X:
https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/announcing-hound-a-lightnin...
Screenshots:
https://jaxenter.com/hound-go-react-code-search-engine-15008...
Another trick I use for Java: javap all the Enums out of the compiled artifacts; these indicate weird things like "modes" that you can use to start asking questions relevant to the domain. Like "why are there four ways to reprice an invoice" or finding the "types" of fees or w/e in a billing system. (assuming enum classes are used)
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Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
Nice too that it's a compiled language, so you get the end tool in a nice static binary. As a non-Node dev, I hate the experience of hacking on some project and having to install a giant pool of NPM stuff just run some minifier or linter. Hound is an example of this— the guts of the project are golang, but it has a frontend that uses webpack, jest, etc: https://github.com/hound-search/hound
Which is fine, I guess; definitely use the right tool for the job. And maybe Node developers hate finding my Python projects and needing to set up a virtualenv to run them in. But all the same, I approve a direction where more of this kind of tooling is available without a build-time Node dependency.
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