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1. asciimoo · 1789667779 · focus · HN ↗

   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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hister.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hister.org&#x2F;

   Tiny read-only demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.hister.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.hister.org&#x2F;

   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!

   1. g_host · 1789696823 · focus · HN ↗

      I love Hister so much.

      I ran it for most of this year but encountered some problems with it I couldn&#x27;t fix and thus have not had it hooked up to anything since June when I finally couldn&#x27;t take it anymore.

      In short, I serve a good number of apps from an Nginx reverse proxy. Maybe 25% of them are exposed to the WWW while everything else is limited to the LAN but I still get valid TLS for all of it.

      Hister, though, kept breaking my whole reverse proxy and I could never figure out EXACTLY why so I could fix it. After running fine for a few days, it would hog the whole server and everything else proxied by Nginx would become unreachable. I tried tuning the config for it to no avail.

      One day when I&#x27;m less lazy, I&#x27;ll probably hook it back up via it&#x27;s LAN IP to every machine I&#x27;ve got again. I REALLY liked that I could log my browsing history from any machine anywhere in the world without a VPN and I was really disappointed when I had to disable its config in Nginx.

      I still use it a lot to go find stuff I flagged as important quickly.

      I&#x27;m curious if this is something you&#x27;ve heard of before, or if I&#x27;ve got a one off problem here.

      I even ported the config to a brand new VM with NGINX and still had the same problem.

      1. asciimoo · 1789716227 · focus · HN ↗

         I&#x27;ve never experienced&#x2F;heard similar behavior. Could you open a GitHub issue or join our Discord&#x2F;IRC to identify the root cause?

         1. g_host · 1789751379 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes, I should have some time this weekend to reproduce the problem and provide useful information for ya&#x27;ll to look at...even if it&#x27;s just to determine the problem is for me to fix and not a bug with Hister.

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