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Sourcegraph is no longer open source | Jul 2023

There is also Hound [8].

[8]: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (2012) | Feb 2023

Hound is an excellent implementation of this for code search:

Doctree | Apr 2022

If the docs are generated from comments in the code a simple ripgrep search of the source (with fzf or other integration) will find things just as well too. Hound is a nice little web UI that does this: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug? | Mar 2022

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I reach for Hound-search[0] (originally Etsy Houndd) that uses Russ Cox's "Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index"

I had even made self-serve hosting for it but didn't put much effort into monetizing or otherwise promoting it.

[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Ask HN: How do you search large code-base before adding a feature or fixing bug? | Mar 2022

At Oracle (keep in mind every org within Oracle is very different) I wrote a crappy script to grab all repos in my org and hook them up to Etsy Hound [0]. But I couldn't stick with it long enough for it to be useful.

It's surprising to me how much effort is not being put into whole-org code search. Most projects focus solely on single-repo search. If you need to make breaking changes or find examples and you don't even know where to look, single-repo search isn't so useful.

[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound

How to Learn Nix | Mar 2022

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A searchable nix config index would be easy to setup using https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier | Jan 2022

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Nice too that it's a compiled language, so you get the end tool in a nice static binary. As a non-Node dev, I hate the experience of hacking on some project and having to install a giant pool of NPM stuff just to run some minifier or linter. Hound is an example of this— the guts of the project are golang, but it has a frontend that uses webpack, jest, etc: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Which is fine, I guess; definitely use the right tool for the job. And maybe Node developers hate finding my Python projects and needing to set up a virtualenv to run them in. But all the same, I approve a direction where more of this kind of tooling is available without a build-time Node dependency.

Grep.app: search across a half million Git repos | Sep 2021

The title does not give this enough credit. I was incredibly impressed by its speed(I'm used to Hound[1] at work) it felt almost instant.

[1]: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code | Nov 2020

Etsy has a web app for searching a git repo, https://github.com/hound-search/hound. But you have to figure out how to efficiently load and update all interesting repos on disk.

I really wish the git protocol had a way to perform remote git grep so you don't need to install potentially massive repos just to search for keywords.

Building a Search Engine for Programmers | Jun 2020

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Hound search does this[0]. I provide a hosting for it[1].

[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound

[1] https://gitgrep.com

Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions | Feb 2020

to grep specific repos locally, I use a tool called Hound, https://github.com/hound-search/hound developed by a couple of engineers at Etsy while I was there, but never released officially.

Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code | Jan 2020

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Another great option for local code/repo search is Hound. I maintain an instance of it at my workplace, but it's so lightweight and easy to deploy that I could easily imagine running an instance of it on my laptop for offline personal use.

https://github.com/hound-search/hound