andres

Thanks! I'll take a look at the pull request.

This sounds like very interesting analysis. You can actually get the data using the Octopart API (http://octopart.com/api). I'd love to see the results so please let me know if you do the analysis.

There are other manufacturers in the top 1000 (e.g. Cypress, Adesto, Atmel) but currently the list does seem to be heavily weighted towards Microchip. This is a first stab at a component price index so it's a work in progress!

Thanks! It's great to hear you found HNSearch useful. We were very happy to power search for HN but we haven't been able to dedicate much time to making it better. It's exciting to see Algolia iterating on HN's search functionality.

Here's another way to check on the status of the HNSearch crawler:

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?limit...

The result limit is in the HNSearch API for performance reasons and hacking around that limit will hurt performance for other users.

Sorry guys - one of the parsing scripts died and didn't get restarted automatically. Normally we would have noticed the problem earlier but we've been away at a conference this past week. The script is back up and the index should be up-to-date within the hour.

If you query the HNSearch API in real-time you won't run into problems with the 1000 result limit. There are 8 comments where PG mentioned "clojure":

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=clojur...

We've been focused on increasing engagement, conversions and API traffic and have made quite a bit of progress there but those metrics aren't included in the Quantcast stats.

The HNSearch crawler was behind due to an IP change related to our move to an AWS VPC. Everything should be up-to-date now: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=ask+hn%3A+w...

The crawler is out of date due to an IP change from a move to an AWS VPC. We're working on getting the crawler up-to-date ASAP.

Sorry, we just upgraded our infrastructure and the crawler is out-of-date. Things should be back to normal soon.

If you have problems with the API please let me know (andres@octopart.com).

SenseiDB looks really impressive. We were actually thinking about the same problem when we built ThriftDB (http://www.thriftdb.com) for Octopart so it's especially interesting to see LinkedIn's implementation.

Looking through the documentation a couple of things come to mind:

* Does SenseiDB support nested data structures?

* What happens when you modify the schema? Can you add/delete/modify attributes?

You can use the HNSearch API for that type of query:

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?sortb...

Just added it.

If you wouldn't mind compiling the info, I'd be happy to add it to the page.

When you have the time to provide feedback please send me an email (andres@thriftdb.com).

done.

Just added it. I'm actually trying to compile a list of all apps, not just the ones that use the API.

There are a lot of useful HN apps out there and we thought it would be useful to compile a list of them. Right now the list consists mostly of apps from the HNSearch API contest but please let us know of any others you'd like to add.

The domain for this post is actually "news.discovery.com":

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=news.discov...

We're indexing the full domain name though we might want to change that.

Thanks for taking the time to review HNSearch.

Your example search is sorted by date so it makes sense that the words "billion" and "almost" don't necessarily appear in the title. Here are the search results sorted by relevance:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bil...

If you'd like to filter on stories with those words in the title, you can use the "title:" operator:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...

Did you try sending us an email with your feature requests? Usually we respond very quickly to emails about feature requests.

Apps with clickable links:

HN Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com

PopDots - http://jflatow.github.com/popdots/ui.html

HNInstant - http://hninstant.com

HNTop100 - http://HNTop100.com

HNSearch Ruby Library - https://github.com/ryanatwork/hacker_news_search

HNSearch Topics - http://zacharymaril.com/HNSearch/Topics/testing-api.html

HNSearch Mobile - http://hnsearch.mobi

Android Ticker Tape - http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk

HN Sentiment Bookmarklet - http://hnmood.appspot.com

Improved HNSearch Interface - http://sc.nightserve.net/

FeedHint Custom HN Feeds - http://feedhint.com

iPhone App - https://github.com/qhoxie/newsyc

HNJS - http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com

Best of $user - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of

HNTrends by qF - http://www.hntrends.dotcloud.com/

HNChat - http://hnchat.philipds.dotcloud.com/

Save My Search - http://beta.mindcast.com/sms

HNMood - http://hnmood.com

iHNteresting - http://pewpewlabs.com/ihnt/

Hacker News Sidebar - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma...

HN Vote Button - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/detail/kepllieh...

HN Trends by sant0sk1 - http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net

pyhn - http://pyhn.gnocchi.dotcloud.com/

Shomi - http://shomi.associatedtechs.com/

HN Search by Ian Burris - http://ianburris.com/hnsearch/

Hacker News GeoIP Search - http://geoipsearch.jfriedly.dotcloud.com/

Unscatter HN Search Tag - http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=%2Fhn+facebook&t=test...

HN Reveal - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kpmlnebfcgjcohlbod...

You can exclude authors by setting the weight to 0 in your API call:

&weights[username]=0.0

You can use strings to represent relative times:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[NOW-5HOURS%20TO%20NOW]

or exact timestamps:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[2011-06-01T05:00:00.00Z%20TO%202011-06-02T07:00:00.00Z]

or both:

&filter[fields][create_ts]=[2011-06-01T05:00:00.00Z%20TO%20NOW]

&filter[fields][domain]=nytimes.com&filter[queries][]=-username:ausername

I just added support for the "intitle:" operator.

Can you access ThriftDB (http://www.thriftdb.com)?

You can use the "title:" operator to search in titles.