Search Hacker News
Digging through years of technical discussion takes good search tools, and building them is a craft of its own. This section collects articles about searching developer archives, the technology behind community search engines, and related news from the search industry.
Articles range from practical guides on crafting queries that surface a half-remembered thread to engineering write-ups on indexing millions of posts and keeping results fast. News about semantic search, embeddings, and AI answers reworking traditional keyword search appears with growing frequency.
Old technical discussions hold answers that never made it into official documentation, which makes searchable archives quietly invaluable. Developers hunting for solved problems, researchers studying community history, and builders of search products all find their interests represented in this coverage.
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents
2026-04-14A new open-source, full-stack Python web framework called Plain has been introduced on Hacker News to streamline application development. Uniquely designed to support both human developers and AI agents, the project is now available for community contribution via GitHub.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
2026-04-13A developer has created "Still Kicking," a camera-free smart picture frame that uses mmWave sensors to monitor an elderly person's motion, detect falls, and track sleep quality. Following the project's announcement on Hacker News, elder care professionals and physicians strongly encouraged the creator to commercialize the device, noting that such privacy-focused technology could help seniors age in place safely without the intrusion of cameras or wearable pendants.