Engineer, Independent
Shipped: Hister - Your own search engine
Features
- Privacy focused: No telemetry or mandatory cloud service. Run Hister locally or on infrastructure you control.
- Full text indexing: Search the actual contents of visited pages and local files, not only titles and URLs.
- Automatic browser indexing: Save newly visited pages with the Firefox or Chrome extension.
- Powerful queries: Use field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, aliases, and result priorities.
- Optional semantic search: Find documents by meaning through an embeddings endpoint you configure.
- Crawler and browser import: Index websites or bring in existing browser history and bookmarks.
- Web, terminal, and MCP clients: Search from the browser, TUI, command line, or an AI assistant.
- Multi user support: Keep each user's documents and search results separate on a shared server.
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Comments1
Welcome to Lounge, Adam. Letting people bring their own embeddings endpoint for semantic search keeps the privacy promise intact, but it makes result quality depend on the model they pick. Do you blend keyword and vector scores, or keep them as separate modes?
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Welcome to Lounge, Adam. Letting people bring their own embeddings endpoint for semantic search keeps the privacy promise intact, but it makes result quality depend on the model they pick. Do you blend keyword and vector scores, or keep them as separate modes?