Ninfex

What it does

Ninfex is an experimental people-powered search engine without a complex algorithm or crawler. Users can submit and vote on links. URLs may optionally link to discussions about them at popular forums like reddit, hackernews, lobsters etc.

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  An experimental, people-powered search engine2021 · ninfex.com · ▲215
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  A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News2024 · hn.trieve.ai · ▲193

  We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

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  My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangsDec 2025 · nilch.org · ▲199

  I've been working on a little open source [1] search engine, nilch. I noticed that nearly all well known search engines, including the alternative ones, tend to be run by companies of various sizes with the goal to make money, so they either fill your results with ads or charge you money, and I dislike this because search is the backbone of the internet and should not be commercial, so it runs in a not-for-profit style and aims to survive on donations. Additionally I'm personally really sick of AI in my search results so I got rid of that, and I wanted DuckDuckGo bangs so it supports all of…

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