asciimoo/hister

Your own search engine

Productivity & self-hostedGo#go#golang#history#index#search

6.3 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

Seismograph spotted this repository 15 hours before GitHub Trending.

About the project

A private Go search engine that indexes the full contents of visited pages and local files. Search is available via web UI, terminal, or an AI assistant through MCP.

Useful for

Find a previously read page by a phrase from its content.
Index local directories and search file contents.
Import browser history and search it offline.

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

368 stars so far today, about 508 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 46 per day, so that's 11× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 35× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending today: #17, +842 stars.
GitHub Trending Go today: #3, +842 stars.
Hacker News: “hister” — 681 points, 1 day ago.
About 17 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 4,845
Stars in a day: 508
Forks: 201
Issues and pull requests: 724
Watchers: 18
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: rolling · February 23, 2026
Created: January 4, 2026
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

hister681 points, September 17, 2026

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending today: #17, +842 stars; GitHub Trending Go today: #3, +842 stars; Spotted on Hacker News
September 17, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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