{"slug": "algolia", "name": "Algolia", "category": "search", "category_name": "Search", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 18, "warners": 8, "score": -1.422, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2025-12-06", "latest": "2026-10-23", "why": "It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's!", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 8}, "spark": [0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's!", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "algolia.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.algolia.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Algolia", "Algolia HN Search"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797211072, "item_id": 49825692, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825692", "by": "sleight42", "date": "2026-09-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I strongly recommend using [algolia]", "excerpt": "The irony of flagging this post should be obvious. If you're not already, I strongly recommend using [algolia](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story]) to view HN. That way you can still find content that is ordinarily rudely shoved out of view. Another irony: using algolia, I've come to see most of HN users as refreshingly liberal. So it's the site itself that bur", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why is Hacker News like that?"}, {"id": 786204944, "item_id": 49137809, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137809", "by": "gabrielsroka", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes: https://hn.algolia.com", "excerpt": "Yes: https://hn.algolia.com", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"}, {"id": 752306160, "item_id": 47019135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019135", "by": "WalterGR", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans", "excerpt": "Also see https://hn.algolia.com/ which powers HN\u2019s site search. It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Epic HN \u2013 the biggest HN topics across the years"}, {"id": 751388336, "item_id": 46961771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961771", "by": "macintux", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives.", "excerpt": "A frequent visitor to HN. Tip: if you click on the \"past\" link under the title (but not the \"past\" link at the top of the page), you'll trigger a search for previous posts. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Parse%2C%20Don%27t%20Validate&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 However, it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=al", "context": "", "use_case": "searching past HN posts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"}, {"id": 743014992, "item_id": 46438437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438437", "by": "subsection1h", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon", "excerpt": "Hi, yakattak. Like you, I also created my HN account in 2010. Browsing HN stopped making me happy years ago. Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon that is indicative of knowledge relating to my interests does make me happy. I search HN multiple times per day using a search shortcut that uses the following URL: https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=%s", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800484048, "item_id": 50030253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030253", "by": "WalterGR", "date": "2026-10-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.", "excerpt": "I was curious so I looked up that quote. It\u2019s from here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/04/the-world-cannot-afford-an-ai-bubble-right-now/ \u201cThe world cannot afford an AI bubble right now\u201d by Andrew Orlowski. I didn\u2019t find a corresponding HN submission but Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN submissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"}, {"id": 786522363, "item_id": 49157647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157647", "by": "bnhan2710", "date": "2026-08-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "in-housing search from Algolia", "excerpt": "Software Engineer - Full Stack | New York, NY | Full-time, ONSITE | $160K-$210K + equity (senior band $170K-$210K, mid $160K-$180K). We're rebuilding our core customer journey \u2014 Search \u2192 Details \u2192 Booking \u2192 Post-booking \u2014 and consolidating fragmented pricing/inventory logic into a coherent backend domain with clear API contracts. Senior role with Staff-leaning scope: you'll own core domains (pricing, inventory, searc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 770467520, "item_id": 48154220, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154220", "by": "lucb1e", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs", "excerpt": "Yeah I also have to fight the URL parameters on Algolia from time to time, the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs Makes me think I should probably have reported it, even if I found a quick-for-me workaround. Looking at the repo, though, it was discontinued several months ago. https://github.com/algolia/hn-search Wonder how much longer it'll be online for", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"}, {"id": 763404642, "item_id": 47712790, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712790", "by": "Brajeshwar", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried Algolia but hit the limit.", "excerpt": "I did with mine too in 2021. Mine was 1000+ articles with even more comments. Luckily for me, I\u2019ve already closed the comments. So, had to just throw them away. For the search, I tried Algolia but hit the limit. I\u2019m with https://pagefind.app for now. I wrote about my journey from WordPress to Jekyll at https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted site search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["searching hn comments", "searching hacker news", "searching hn", "searching hn submissions", "viewing hacker news", "ecommerce search"], "compared": [{"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259", "title": "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029681", "title": "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817280", "title": "Why is Hacker News like that?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647777", "title": "Show HN: Ecommerce Search comparisson across 5 independent engines, all public", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156683", "title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136990", "title": "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803346208, "item_id": 50209138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209138", "by": "tim333", "date": "2026-10-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I tend to use", "excerpt": "I think saying /active is the real front page was different. I didn't know it existed. I tend to use https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story myself.", "context": "", "use_case": "searching HN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"}, {"id": 800484048, "item_id": 50030253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030253", "by": "WalterGR", "date": "2026-10-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.", "excerpt": "I was curious so I looked up that quote. It\u2019s from here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/04/the-world-cannot-afford-an-ai-bubble-right-now/ \u201cThe world cannot afford an AI bubble right now\u201d by Andrew Orlowski. I didn\u2019t find a corresponding HN submission but Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN submissions", "switched_from": "", "story": "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"}, {"id": 797211072, "item_id": 49825692, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825692", "by": "sleight42", "date": "2026-09-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I strongly recommend using [algolia]", "excerpt": "The irony of flagging this post should be obvious. If you're not already, I strongly recommend using [algolia](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story]) to view HN. That way you can still find content that is ordinarily rudely shoved out of view. Another irony: using algolia, I've come to see most of HN users as refreshingly liberal. So it's the site itself that bur", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why is Hacker News like that?"}, {"id": 794364465, "item_id": 49647779, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647779", "by": "tazo-lezhava", "date": "2026-09-10", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "we lose once to Algolia in generating junk search results", "excerpt": "Hi All, I'm cofounder and CEO of Quissly, author of the research piece published here. We tested 5 different search engines for ecommerce, and given we win across almost all benchmarks presented, you should read it with a grain of salt. We ran 1259 queries and 99,168 LLM judgements to get to the results presented in the report. Everything is reproducible from scratch, but we didn't use T=0 so you might not get identi", "context": "", "use_case": "ecommerce search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Ecommerce Search comparisson across 5 independent engines, all public"}, {"id": 786522363, "item_id": 49157647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157647", "by": "bnhan2710", "date": "2026-08-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "in-housing search from Algolia", "excerpt": "Software Engineer - Full Stack | New York, NY | Full-time, ONSITE | $160K-$210K + equity (senior band $170K-$210K, mid $160K-$180K). We're rebuilding our core customer journey \u2014 Search \u2192 Details \u2192 Booking \u2192 Post-booking \u2014 and consolidating fragmented pricing/inventory logic into a coherent backend domain with clear API contracts. Senior role with Staff-leaning scope: you'll own core domains (pricing, inventory, searc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 786204944, "item_id": 49137809, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137809", "by": "gabrielsroka", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes: https://hn.algolia.com", "excerpt": "Yes: https://hn.algolia.com", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"}, {"id": 775733104, "item_id": 48483319, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483319", "by": "lukan", "date": "2026-06-10", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "rather uses just", "excerpt": "For this use case, of finding related threads, I thought he wrote not special tools, but rather uses just https://hn.algolia.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN threads", "switched_from": "", "story": "\u03a0FS"}, {"id": 770467520, "item_id": 48154220, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154220", "by": "lucb1e", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs", "excerpt": "Yeah I also have to fight the URL parameters on Algolia from time to time, the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs Makes me think I should probably have reported it, even if I found a quick-for-me workaround. Looking at the repo, though, it was discontinued several months ago. https://github.com/algolia/hn-search Wonder how much longer it'll be online for", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"}, {"id": 763404642, "item_id": 47712790, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712790", "by": "Brajeshwar", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried Algolia but hit the limit.", "excerpt": "I did with mine too in 2021. Mine was 1000+ articles with even more comments. Luckily for me, I\u2019ve already closed the comments. So, had to just throw them away. For the search, I tried Algolia but hit the limit. I\u2019m with https://pagefind.app for now. I wrote about my journey from WordPress to Jekyll at https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted site search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"}, {"id": 760536466, "item_id": 47533529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533529", "by": "anshulbasia27", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Algolia are great, but at $0.50 per 1,000 searches, costs scale linearly with usage", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built altor-vec, a client-side HNSW vector search engine written in Rust that compiles to 54KB of WebAssembly. It lets you run semantic search entirely in the browser with sub-millisecond latency. I started working on this because of the typical SaaS search dependency. Tools like Algolia are great, but at $0.50 per 1,000 searches, costs scale linearly with usage. More importantly, sending every user keystrok", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A 54KB client-side HNSW vector search engine in WASM"}, {"id": 757985312, "item_id": 47374082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374082", "by": "osos2", "date": "2026-03-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "https://www.algolia.com/security.txt 404", "excerpt": "https://www.algolia.com/security.txt 404", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted search API", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites"}, {"id": 757743392, "item_id": 47358962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358962", "by": "mlhpdx", "date": "2026-03-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I meant this simple one", "excerpt": "When I said \"I have also done the search\" I meant this simple one: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&query=%22llm%20generated%22&sort=byDate&type=comment", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."}, {"id": 752306160, "item_id": 47019135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019135", "by": "WalterGR", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans", "excerpt": "Also see https://hn.algolia.com/ which powers HN\u2019s site search. It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Epic HN \u2013 the biggest HN topics across the years"}, {"id": 751388336, "item_id": 46961771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961771", "by": "macintux", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives.", "excerpt": "A frequent visitor to HN. Tip: if you click on the \"past\" link under the title (but not the \"past\" link at the top of the page), you'll trigger a search for previous posts. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Parse%2C%20Don%27t%20Validate&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 However, it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=al", "context": "", "use_case": "searching past HN posts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"}, {"id": 749904898, "item_id": 46869056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869056", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Found the 10_000 requests per ip per hour to be really restricting.", "excerpt": "Yes. > The information is public. \"I can get the API wrapper to output more data\" might be a quirk but it doesn't have security impact. To be honest, I want more people to play with the clickhouse playground too. I feel like a lot of people have some great ideas to expand upon & I feel like they should play around with clickhouse playground for themselves! Highly recommended (also the reason why I referenced them in ", "context": "", "use_case": "HN data API", "switched_from": "", "story": "See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments"}, {"id": 743014992, "item_id": 46438437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438437", "by": "subsection1h", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon", "excerpt": "Hi, yakattak. Like you, I also created my HN account in 2010. Browsing HN stopped making me happy years ago. Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon that is indicative of knowledge relating to my interests does make me happy. I search HN multiple times per day using a search shortcut that uses the following URL: https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=%s", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"}, {"id": 741594064, "item_id": 46349629, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349629", "by": "muzani", "date": "2025-12-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear", "excerpt": "Searching Mein Kampf adds some decent data on what to filter out, or tag differently. A lot of it comes up in discussions on banned books etc. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=mein%20kampf&sort=byDate&type=comment Also, some of it is just Godwin's Law.", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"}, {"id": 739350624, "item_id": 46209414, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209414", "by": "Rendello", "date": "2025-12-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's!", "excerpt": "It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's! https://hn.algolia.com/help", "context": "", "use_case": "Searching HN comments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Please Don't"}, {"id": 738753424, "item_id": 46172089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172089", "by": "jasode", "date": "2025-12-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Algolia search engine HN uses is not exhaustive and always returns incomplete results", "excerpt": ">1) None of those had an Em dash I was responding in particular to the \"you write like a late night kitchen gizmo ad?\" ... which would be a speech pattern people hear. In the audio case, it doesn't matter what punctuation symbol separates the \"it isn't/it's\" pattern because the comma or em dash would be invisible. E.g. a blog author also complains about \"it isn't/it's\" separated by a comma here: https://saigaddam.med", "context": "", "use_case": "Hacker News search", "switched_from": "", "story": "The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out"}]}