Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived (opens in new tab)

OMG, I'd love to fix that date picker. It is just so horribly broken, it causes me PTSD.

I would appreciate it. It’s such a joy to use, to share, and (admitting I haven’t) nice to see & share the code & configuration to feed algolia, on a more serious scale of us than I’m likely to use in a hobby project or find/grok/share another public example with code + data.

Had me scared for a moment that it was running Ruby 2.6 and Rails 5.1.7 in prod. :'D

FYI: The hn search index I'm seeing is about 9 hours old as of 2026-02-23T00:53:00Z. Is that right?

Please make it public

I've been having issues logging into my HN account on Harmonic for quite a while, now this, the API is down :/

Doesn't seem to have been touched for 3 years. Might be they consider it complete, but given the number of issues and PRs that's been gathering in those 3 years, it feels more like it's abandoned.

Check HackerBook https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook

Repo packages 20 years of Hacker News into a static archive you can run entirely in your browser. The site is just files: HTML, JSON, and gzipped SQLite shards. No server app required.

Easiest way might be to use google cloud's 'bigquery' tool which lets you query hn data with SQL

I just tried

    SELECT *
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` 

and it returns 47049059 rows. And

    SELECT
      MAX(timestamp) AS most_recent_timestamp
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`;

gives 2026-02-21 09:12:49 UTC, so it checks out.

There's a BigQuery public dataset

  bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full

There are some data sets but Hacker News has a non rate-limited API (see the bottom of the page) so you can just build one yourself.

I don't think you can get the content of flagged posts without actually scraping the site but that'll get you banned.

Ruby is a sleeper for me. I wasn’t around when Ruby on Rails was all the rage for startups, so I always get surprised when I learn that so-and-so started off as a Ruby project.

But it totally makes sense considering its style.

The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."