Algolia
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
8warn against
Dec 6, 2025first mention
Oct 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I strongly recommend using [algolia]”
“Yes: https://hn.algolia.com”
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“It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans”
“it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives.”
“Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon”
Caveats and dissent
“Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.”
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“the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs”
“I tried Algolia but hit the limit.”
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All comments 19
“I tend to use”
“Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.”
“I strongly recommend using [algolia]”
“we lose once to Algolia in generating junk search results”
“in-housing search from Algolia”
“Yes: https://hn.algolia.com”
“rather uses just”
“the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs”
“I tried Algolia but hit the limit.”
“Algolia are great, but at $0.50 per 1,000 searches, costs scale linearly with usage”
“https://www.algolia.com/security.txt 404”
“I meant this simple one”
“It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans”
“it's more effective to throw quotes into the mix, reduces false positives.”
“Found the 10_000 requests per ip per hour to be really restricting.”
“Searching HN for individual comments that include jargon”
“https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear”
“It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's!”
“the Algolia search engine HN uses is not exhaustive and always returns incomplete results”