Hacker News Search
Full-text search for Hacker News, powered by Neon & Vercel.
Details
- External ID
- 1256953
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacker News Search
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Tech, Database
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A full-text search over all of Hacker News (~49M stories, comments, jobs & polls, syncing live per hour) to be 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 with all magic at the Neon Postgres layer: • Every keystroke is a live query against Neon Postgres • BM25 (powered by Lakebase Search) ranking runs inside the Postgres • No connection pool, just SQL-over-HTTP round trips • pg_prewarm loads the table + every index into cache • partial BM25 index per type, predicate matching the WHERE clause • Deployed on Vercel
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- full-text search engine for hacker news readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a search UI on Vercel is trivial, but backfilling, indexing, and maintaining real-time incremental synchronization across 49+ million HN items with sub-millisecond search latencies requires serious database and search tuning.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves ingesting the full Hacker News BigQuery/Firebase dataset into a managed PostgreSQL instance (Neon) utilizing specialized extensions like pg_search (Lakebase/BM25) or custom inverted indexes. The hard part is the high-throughput ingestion pipeline, database partition strategies, memory tuning, and query optimization to handle real-time keystroke searches over 49M rows without degrading performance or blowing up database compute costs. It requires senior database administration and search indexing expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 49 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 50 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CipherStash Stack · hn · 2026-05-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.