Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network
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Details
- External ID
- 50014690
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network
- Website domain
- my-yacy-node.org
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10
- Tags
- —
Description
This is demo of my prototype which performs searches over YaCy P2P network and tries to do it fast and provide more relevant results especially for multi-word queries. Built it because found quality of search results provided by the reference Java implementation to be poor. Would be like to hear your feedback about it.
Enrichment
- Niche
- vertical search engines and directories
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- peer-to-peer web search over yacy network
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web UI wraps SearXNG, creating a performant multi-word P2P search algorithm and ranking layer over YaCy's distributed hash table network requires deep distributed systems and information retrieval work.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a custom proxy or modified YaCy peer client (in Rust, Go, or Java) integrated with SearXNG, interfacing with YaCy's DHT (Distributed Hash Table) via peer-to-peer protocols. The hard problem is re-ranking, distributed term-frequency scoring (TF-IDF/BM25 over distributed shards), and latency mitigation across asynchronous, unreliable peer nodes.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Poor results for regular queries, Surfacing spam and drug-related pages
Competitors
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Attention rank: #16 of 17 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
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