YHK - yet another hacker news clone

hister

69 points bookofjoe 1 hour ago 18 comments

jammaloo 1 hour ago | parent

A recent discussion about this tool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351802

evilduck 1 hour ago | parent

Saw on Discord that they have to change their name, since https://histre.com sent them a letter.

tamimio 1 hour ago | parent

Integrate it with linkwarden so it searches the bookmarked pages.

billbrown 39 minutes ago | parent

It does that already. https://hister.org/docs/import#importing-from-linkwarden

tamimio 24 minutes ago | parent

Thanks, that looks interesting, I will test it out and see if it continuously sync or must be manually imported from time to time, or if it can replaces linkwarden entirely. My linkwarden instance also saves as a pdf not just html and bookmarks are in GB in size, if hister does it more efficiently it’s even better.

361994752 22 minutes ago | parent

I had the same problem for a very long time but it is largely solved now. I started to simply ask chatgpt "hey I read something about x, y month ago but can't find it now". There is a surprisingly high chance chatbot can just give the exact answer back to me, usually with extra interesting reading materials as a plus.

cobertos 18 minutes ago | parent

Is all your browsing history already with chatgpt or something?

This has an MCP server specifically so a workflow like that would work for you. This is just made to gold the data, and I'm a human accessible way should your AI fail you

361994752 15 minutes ago | parent

No I don't share anything with chatgpt. But I do have a $20 subscription, if it matters. I feel It's just capable enough to find what I want from my usually vague and inaccurate description.

rglullis 16 minutes ago | parent

And now you are even more dependent on OpenAI...

You didn't solve the problem, you are just trading pain points.

randomblock1 14 minutes ago | parent

Nothing about this depends on the provider, you could spin up a local Qwen and give it a search tool like SearXNG or something. At this point local models are more than good enough for simple tasks like that. Using ChatGPT is just (usually) faster and simpler

361994752 12 minutes ago | parent

There should be no real vendor lock in in my opinion. You can ask the same question with pi + qwen (or any harness + good enough model) with internet access and it will work. Chatgpt is just one option came in handy.

bradrn 18 minutes ago | parent

Ooh, very nice! I have my own tool I’ve been using for this [https://github.com/bradrn/full-history-search/], and it’s incredibly useful, but it’s also pretty primitive. This one looks a lot nicer.

jval43 17 minutes ago | parent

Google Chrome did this in 2008. Full-text search over all visited pages, stored offline. It was very useful and I miss it.

Nobody seems to remember it, even though it was a headline feature. Was removed in 2013, I think due to technical constraints.

Will definitely try this.

xd1936 11 minutes ago | parent

I remember this as well. I hadn't noticed it was gone until just now, but you're right.

Edit: Found it. Thanks Claude.

https://github.com/ssnangua/google-chrome-comic-hd/blob/main...

https://dfir.blog/history-index-files-removed-from-chrome-v3...

jval43 4 minutes ago | parent

Funnily enough, the Chromium documentation hasn't been updated in 18 years and still has the original screenshots and description: https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/history/

Lio 16 minutes ago | parent

This is really cool. I like the idea of combining it with a offline Wikipedia cache.

RobGR 11 minutes ago | parent

I've been using this since the last time it came up on here. I don't have it index every page I visit, I use the browser plugin to tell it to index specific ones. It is useful for sure, but I think it will really shine once I've been using it long enough for it to build up a bigger index of things that are old enough that I've actually forgotten about them.

asciimoo 9 minutes ago | parent

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach.

Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline result previews, so information remains searchable even when the original page changes or disappears. It supports full text and semantic search, can run entirely on your own machine, and includes a web interface, command line tools, and an MCP endpoint for assistant integrations.

Website: https://hister.org/

Tiny read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/

Ps.: It looks like our name conflicts with a registered trademark in the US. The owner of the other project has asked us to change it, so we’ll probably need to comply sooner or later.

Name suggestions are welcome! Ideally, the new name should be relatively short, sound good, and have an available .org domain.

Thanks!