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Show HN: Linxy – Search News

58 points by golnx 6y ago

TekMol 6y ago
I would give it a try, but there seems to be no information on who runs this. Since you probably did not fall from the sky just yesterday, why no info on who you are? Why no proud "Made by ..." with a link to your homepage or Twitter or something? I would not put my searches into a website of an anonymous entity.
- golnx 6y ago
  Thank you for the feedback, will add a footer link in a minute.
erezsh 6y ago
I like how snappy it is, but it seems like you have a very narrow and short coverage. Most of the words I searched had no results, or only a couple. Also, seems like for multiple terms you display a union of the results, while I would expect it to be an intersection.
- golnx 6y ago
  Yes the index is not that large (both history wise and number of sources) at the moment yet. Also the search is done on the titles (not full search of articles). The result is a union, the idea behind this is to create a personalized search feed (find latest relevant content)
artembugara 6y ago
Nice project, I saw you on Reddit a couple of days ago. We're building a News API [1] and I'd like to know about how you get the data. If you have any other questions regarding news aggregation feel free to contact me (check bio) [1] https://newscatcherapi.com/ https://newscatcherapi.com/
- golnx 6y ago
  We perform our own crawling/indexing.. Will checkout the link, thanks
stanislavb 6y ago
Looks interesting. @golnx, I’m curious what’s the tech stack?
- golnx 6y ago
  React on the frontend, and java on the backend for both indexing and searching
zschuessler 6y ago
This looks great, well done. I see you mentioned the product does its own indexing and crawling. I'm not surprised that was necessary, there doesn't seem to be an easy (free) way to poll major news sources for content. Does anyone know of a major unbiased news outlet you can do that with? I checked about a year ago. I wasn't able to find such a source that would let you poll their stories for free and with realistic rate limits. I just needed a title and excerpt and was fine linking to the original content for users.
elliottinvent 6y ago
This is really fast and I like it, but I expected my results to be narrowed as I entered more terms but they weren't.

58 points by golnx 6y ago

I would give it a try, but there seems to be no information on who runs this. Since you probably did not fall from the sky just yesterday, why no info on who you are? Why no proud "Made by ..." with a link to your homepage or Twitter or something? I would not put my searches into a website of an anonymous entity.

golnx 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback, will add a footer link in a minute.

erezsh 6y ago

I like how snappy it is, but it seems like you have a very narrow and short coverage. Most of the words I searched had no results, or only a couple. Also, seems like for multiple terms you display a union of the results, while I would expect it to be an intersection.

golnx 6y ago
Yes the index is not that large (both history wise and number of sources) at the moment yet. Also the search is done on the titles (not full search of articles). The result is a union, the idea behind this is to create a personalized search feed (find latest relevant content)

artembugara 6y ago

Nice project, I saw you on Reddit a couple of days ago. We're building a News API [1] and I'd like to know about how you get the data. If you have any other questions regarding news aggregation feel free to contact me (check bio) [1] https://newscatcherapi.com/ https://newscatcherapi.com/

golnx 6y ago
We perform our own crawling/indexing.. Will checkout the link, thanks

stanislavb 6y ago

Looks interesting. @golnx, I’m curious what’s the tech stack?

golnx 6y ago
React on the frontend, and java on the backend for both indexing and searching

zschuessler 6y ago

This looks great, well done. I see you mentioned the product does its own indexing and crawling. I'm not surprised that was necessary, there doesn't seem to be an easy (free) way to poll major news sources for content. Does anyone know of a major unbiased news outlet you can do that with? I checked about a year ago. I wasn't able to find such a source that would let you poll their stories for free and with realistic rate limits. I just needed a title and excerpt and was fine linking to the original content for users.

elliottinvent 6y ago

This is really fast and I like it, but I expected my results to be narrowed as I entered more terms but they weren't.