GifCities(gifcities.org)
65 points by augury | 12 comments
GifCities is the Internet Archive's search engine for animated GIFs from archived GeoCities pages; the capture showed a rate-limit error.
#search-engine on Hacker News
22 stories tagged search-engine, newest first.
pldb: programming languages papers(pldb.kirancodes.me)
14 points by matt_d | 0 comments
pldb is a search engine over titles and abstracts of 33,580 programming languages research papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to current proceedings.
Hister – A private, full content search index that you control(hister.org)
423 points by auraham | 94 comments
Landing page for Hister, free software that indexes pages you visit and your files into a private, self-controlled full-content search engine.
Search all text in New York City(alltext.nyc)
520 points by Kortaggio | 101 comments
A search tool that lets users find text appearing on New York City streets, extracted via OCR from street-view imagery.
Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings(blog.wilsonl.in)
578 points by wilsonzlin | 97 comments
Wilson Lin's blog post describing how he built a web search engine from scratch in two months using 3 billion neural embeddings.
Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place(engineering.fyi)
417 points by indiehackerman | 107 comments
Engineering.fyi is a search engine indexing engineering blogs from companies like Google, Meta, Stripe and OpenAI; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users(blog.kagi.com)
434 points by angilr | 238 comments
Kagi blog post from April 17, 2025 announcing that Kagi Assistant, its AI assistant combining top LLMs without training on user data, is available to all users.
Fair Pricing(kagi.com)
1044 points by CleverLikeAnOx | 463 comments
Kagi changelog entry from Feb 4, 2025 introducing Fair Pricing for its search subscription service.
Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content(marginalia-search.com)
490 points by herbertl | 61 comments
Homepage of Marginalia Search, an open-source, privacy-focused independent search engine that prioritizes non-commercial websites.
Public Work: a search engine for public domain images(public.work)
339 points by throw0101d | 48 comments
Public Work is a search engine and browsable grid of public domain images drawn from museum and library collections.
Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone(github.com)
593 points by nilsherzig | 118 comments
GitHub repository for LLocalSearch, a fully local meta search engine that uses chains of LLM agents to answer questions without OpenAI or Google API keys.
Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites(aboutideasnow.com)
514 points by louisbarclay | 103 comments
AboutIdeasNow is a search engine indexing the /about, /ideas, and /now pages of over 7,000 personal websites to help people find collaborators.
Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine(stract.com)
359 points by FLpxpyJ | 90 comments
Homepage of Stract, an independent open-source, non-profit web search engine with customizable 'optics' for tailoring results.
Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget(kagi.com)
354 points by mroche | 170 comments
Kagi Search changelog entry from Dec 7, 2023 announcing a paywalled articles indicator and an improved weather widget.
Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company(blog.vespa.ai)
325 points by bratao | 127 comments
Vespa blog post by CEO Jon Bratseth announcing that Vespa, the open big data serving engine, is spinning out of Yahoo as its own company.
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month(blog.kagi.com)
1658 points by darthShadow | 878 comments
Kagi blog post from September 2023 announcing that its $10/month plan now includes unlimited searches.
Absurd Success(marginalia.nu)
557 points by asicsp | 153 comments
A Marginalia blog post describing a week of coding that halved the search engine's RAM use, enabled online upgrades, and lifted index size limits.
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website(wiby.me)
1167 points by thunderbong | 309 comments
Wiby's surprise link redirects to a random old-style Web 1.0 page, shown here landing on a 1999 CD Clubs FAQ about BMG and Columbia House.
Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL(xata.io)
461 points by todsacerdoti | 160 comments
Xata blog post, part 1 of a series, exploring how to build an advanced full-text search engine using PostgreSQL's built-in features.
Kagi raises $670k(blog.kagi.com)
357 points by erwinmatijsen | 309 comments
Kagi blog post announcing it raised $670K in a SAFE note round from 42 accredited investors, mostly Kagi users, its first external fundraise.
Full Time(marginalia.nu)
869 points by kevincox | 137 comments
Blog post by the Marginalia Search developer announcing they have left their job to work on the independent search engine full time.
Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content(search.marginalia.nu)
513 points by thunderbong | 179 comments
Homepage of Marginalia, an independent open-source DIY search engine favoring non-commercial and lesser-known websites, hosted on a single PC in Sweden.