About DeepHN

Motivation

Hacker News* is one of the best resources for technology & startup news, due to its crowdsourced information, comments, links, and ranking. But the UI emphasizes the focus on daily news, and precious information of the past stays buried behind. DeepHN aims to be your tool to effortlessly discover the treasures that are hidden deep in the mines of HN.

Features

Full-text search in stories, comments, external websites
Instant search
Instant preview
Auto correction
Auto suggestion
Keyword highlighting in resultlist and preview
Boolean search: AND, NOT, PHRASE, Implicit PHRASE
Auto generation of hashtags (topics)
Faceted search for hastags, domains, comments, points, source (story, comment, external website)
Sort by date, relevance (by rank, then by points), comments, points
Crawling of external links with URL forwarding, key text extraction, boilerplate removal and title rewriting

DeepHN is powered by SeekStorm Search-as-a-service, which is based on a novel Log-structured merge-tree database and offers a 20x shorter latency compared to Lucene*.
SeekStorm undercuts the market price by factor 30 compared to other search-as-a-services.

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