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Rajeev-K
eureka
JavaScript2019–2023
Rajeev-K / eureka

eureka

Lucene-based search engine for your source code

Search & Information Retrieval
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3Distinct people
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0Explicit recommenders
14GitHub stars
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What it is

Lucene-based search engine for your source code

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-08-12 14:33:44 UTC to 2023-07-04 14:36:27 UTC.

0123452019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

1 sources
smarx007·Jul 4, 2023
What is a good open-source system for code search if I want to plug 100 or so git repos into it and have it available over the web? GH search is not desirable because it would search too broadly and would not cover repos on Gitlab etc. I looked at the Debian code search [1] in the past, but for some reason thought it required a bit too much effort and didn't complete my investigation of it. Though [2] looks pretty approachable. Sourcegraph mentioned Zoekt [3], but I am not sure how usable it is. If it was pretty good, why did Sourcegraph OSS exist? Finally, from all the discussion how Sourcegraph OSS was very behind in the past few years, I guess there is no serious plan to fork it? Edit: GCS release [4] seems to have been open-sourced without a frontend. Edit2: Livegrep [5] and Opengrok [6] were recommended higher in the thread. Quite ex
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cited to try them out but if someone has working Docker Compose configs, I would be very thankful for the head start. Edit3: there is also Eureka [7]. Seems less powerful but easier to deploy. [1]: https://github.com/Debian/dcs [2]: https://github.com/Debian/dcs/blob/main/howto/building.md [3]: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt [4]: https://github.com/google/codesearch [5]: https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep [6]: https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/ [7]: https://github.com/Rajeev-K/eureka
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