Algolia is a search engine product; https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ is a "side-service" that indexes the HN firehose API. (It works reasonably w

Algolia is a search engine product; https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ is a "side-service" that indexes the HN firehose API. (It works reasonably well (readonly) as a modernized, alternative HN UI, actually.) This is indeed a link to a search query on the site; it lists all the times "how <....> became <....>".