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algolia.com
Company blog · algolia.com/blog · on HN as ndessaigneprogrammingdata
algolia.com is the company blog at algolia.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2013, 89 different Hacker News readers have linked it 125 times, most often “Algolia has updated their free tier from 10k to 1M rows”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link Algolia's docs, engineering blog (including the Inside the Algolia Engine series), pricing and product pages, often when discussing hosted search. Many links are bare or hiring posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2016-01-04
- Algolia has updated their free tier from 10k to 1M rows4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-02
- When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (new glibc)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
- Algolia: Agentic. Generative. Search4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-10-30
- Algolia rewrote their whole documentation website4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-12-20
- /blog/engineering/inside-the-algolia-engine-part-1-indexing-vs-search/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-15
- /infra2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-29
- The Algolia Engine Part 2 – The Indexing Challenge of Instant Search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-14
- The Ultimate Guide on Prompt Injection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-08
- Algolia Realtime Search Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-12
What Hacker News says?
There's a "Typo-tolerance" option [0] HN exposes in the search settings [1]. If you disable that, then those results no longer show up. [0] https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/optimize... [1] https://hn.algolia.com/settings
Comment linking /doc/guides/managing-results/optimize-search-results/typo-tolerance/
on “We're improving search results when you use quotes”Submitted Algolia Acquires Search.io as a story · 226 points
HN discussionWell, one would have guessed that the service powering HN search would know about HNSW: https://www.algolia.com/blog/ai/a-simple-guide-to-ai-search
Comment linking /blog/ai/a-simple-guide-to-ai-search
on “Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests”Submitted Vectors are over, hashes are the future as a story · 172 points
HN discussionThe more competition the better, though article’s take might be somewhat rosy-eyed. In the end-user apps domain, alternatives including Apple Maps lose to Google Maps miserably in all regions I have been to in the past 2–3 years with the exception of mainland China. If I need to get somewhere and accurately estimate arrival time, I am not happy feeding Google my movement data but I will since it’ll be the most relia…
Comment linking /blog/sunseting-our-places-feature/
on “Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating”Submitted Real-time Search as a Service as a story · 92 points
HN discussionAlgolia | multiple roles | SF, Paris, NY, Atlanta, London | Onsite only, Full time Hey HN, at Algolia we are facing a major challenge of scaling our team to follow our growth and our series B investment. We are currently looking for multiple dev roles, but looking for other areas such as marketing and sales as well :) We are a hosted search API, that allows anyone to quickly build good search within hours. https://w…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Algolia releases new AI search features as a story · 56 points
HN discussionAlgolia (YC W14) | San Francisco | Paris | Full-Time On-Site Frontend, Full-Stack, iOS Engineers; Site Reliability Engineer; Customer Solutions Engineer (Paris) Customer Solutions Engineer (SF) Algolia is "search at the speed of thought." A hosted search service, that hits the sweet spot between "wrestle for months with Elastic" and "just throw some subpar search up." We power the search for sites and apps like Geni…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted One Year of Load Balancing as a story · 28 points
HN discussionhttps://www.algolia.com/
Comment linking /
on “How Stripe Designs Websites”Submitted Unintended double encryption crippled our search engine performance as a story · 17 points
HN discussionWould love to see index restricted API keys comparable to https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-methods/genera...
Comment linking /doc/api-reference/api-methods/generate-secured-api-key/
on “Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia”Submitted Algolia Acquires Search.io as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAlgolia | Remote/Paris/London/NYC | Full-time | Multiple Roles I'm a Product Manager at Algolia (algolia.com) and we're hiring for a large number of roles, including some who will be my colleagues on the Product Team or on the Search Ranking/Semantic Search Team. Algolia is a search and discovery API used by thousands of companies across billions of queries a month. I like to describe it by saying that you've used u…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted How come Algolia is so Fast? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe Geo API allows it to work like a search engine. On my wish list would be adding a bounding box query to return results within a map displayed on the current screen: e.g.: https://www.algolia.com/doc/javascript#search__inside-boundi... or e.g.: http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_MakeEnvelope.html
Comment linking /doc/javascript
on “Redis 3.2.0 is out”Submitted Product Recommendations as a Service with Algolia Recommend as a story · 13 points
HN discussionMy team used typesense for a recent project. 16 million records combined with https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-i... . Really fast and worth the investment. It doesn't have all the enterprise features of ES or Solr but for basic search features it's great.
Comment linking /doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-is-instantsearch/react/
on “Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes”Submitted 30 days to improve our Crawler performance by 50% as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAlgolia | Staff ML Engineer, Semantic Search | Paris or Remote (Europe or EST/CST US) | Full-time My team at Algolia is hiring a Staff ML Engineer for semantic search. We are search-as-a-service company powering billions of searches a month, and we are looking to increase our semantic search capabilities. We are looking for someone with significant experience in ML and search, and who has deployed semantic search to…
Comment linking /careers/staff-machine-learning-engineer-semantic-search-europe
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted When allocators are hoarding your precious memory as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you are building a core product, such as Spotify's Discover Weekly. Then no question, you need a dedicated team, and substantial commitment. Maybe even a PhD or two. But as an unabashed Angolia devotee, I think the value prop of InstantSearch is a no brainer. It's worthwhile looking at the product itself, as an almost textbook example of how to package services to enterprise customers. https://www.algolia.com/pro…
Comment linking /enterprise/customers/
on “Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service”Submitted Algolia overhauls developer docs search experience as a story · 9 points
HN discussionExactly this. See also the profusion of filter expression languages, eg here's Algolia's: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-r... Or here's one built into Symfony: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/expression_langua...
Comment linking /doc/guides/managing-results/refine-results/filtering/in-depth/combining-boolean-operators/
on “JSON Patch”Submitted Algolia Realtime Search Engine as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAs Daniel Parker (acloud.guru) mentioned in the article comments, they went with Algolia [1] despite being AWS experts. He cited the uncertainty and complexity around AWS ES as the problem. [1] https://www.algolia.com/
Comment linking /
on “Things to know before using AWS’s Elasticsearch Service”Submitted The anatomy of high-performance recommender systems – Part 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYeah, definitely. It's a product category called, somewhat prosaically, "enterprise search." Algolia's appropriate for this in that we allow you to define data structures on a per-content source basis, and can show the most relevant results for each content source. Usually, enterprise search providers provide lots of out of the box connectors — with us, you'd just shove JSON into the proper index using one of the AP…
Comment linking /doc/guides/security/api-keys/
on “Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M”Submitted Instant Search on CrunchBase as a story · 7 points
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