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New comment by asciimoo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

asciimoo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:58:23 +0000

Thanks <3

Currently it overwrites the previous content with the latest if there is any change, but I'd like to add option to store diffs as well in the future.

New comment by asciimoo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

asciimoo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:15:42 +0000

I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines.

Hister is basically a full text indexer which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.

Here's a little summary of the background/motivation/beginnings: https://hister.org/posts/how-i-cut-my-google-search-dependen...

Project site: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister

Website: https://hister.org/ Read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/

New comment by asciimoo in "I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half"

asciimoo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:52:46 +0000

Ohi, author here. The index you build can indeed contain sensitive data, but you have the ability to specify URL patterns to skip the indexing of the matching pages.

Show HN: Hister – fast, content-based search for visited websites

asciimoo — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:22:10 +0000

I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines.

Hister is basically a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.

I've been using it for more than a month now and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo more and more frequently.

The project is still heavily under development with constant fine-tuning, but the current version is in a fairly usable state in my opinion, so I wanted to share it here - perhaps some of you find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])

The code is AGPLv3 licensed, available at https://github.com/asciimoo/hister

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901321

Points: 9

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Show HN: Omnom v0.8.0 with Fediverse feed integration

asciimoo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom/releases/tag/v0.8.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069373

Points: 6

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New comment by asciimoo in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

asciimoo — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:50:55 +0000

I'm using & developing Omnom (read-only demo: https://omnom.zone/ ). It is self-hosted, free software, fediverse compatible and creates 1:1 snapshots of the saved websites: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom

New comment by asciimoo in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots [showcase]"

asciimoo — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:20:59 +0000

It's not only open source, it is free software. Take a look at https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom - suggestions/contributions are appreciated =)

New comment by asciimoo in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots [showcase]"

asciimoo — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:51:46 +0000

You can find detailed search (including title/content) using the bookmarks endpoint. Snapshot search is currently only for finding multiple snapshots for a single URL/domain. Probably it should be emphasized, or content based search should be available there as well. Thanks for the feedback!

Show HN: Omnom – Bookmarking with Website Snapshots

asciimoo — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545911

Points: 7

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New comment by asciimoo in "Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang"

asciimoo — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:17:00 +0000

Makes sense, thanks =)

In the above example this would require `nil` checking of the retrieved value every time. I'm not sure if it would make the API cleaner

New comment by asciimoo in "Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang"

asciimoo — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:34:25 +0000

How do you recognize if the collector has finished? If the site doesn't contain "a" elements (e.g. because of a network error), this example would block forever.

New comment by asciimoo in "Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang"

asciimoo — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:08:38 +0000

Scraping JS-only sites is also possible without a headless browser, but requires a bit more debugging of the internal structure of these sites. Most of JS-only websites have API endpoints with JSON responses, which can make scraping more reliable than parsing custom (and sometimes invalid) HTML. The drawback of headless browser based scraping is that it requires significant amount of cpu time and memory compared to "static" scraping frameworks.