I do not know if this will help you in this specific case, but whenever I want to find an article on HN, I just use google site:news.ycombinator.com some words

I do not know if this will help you in this specific case, but whenever I want to find an article on HN, I just use google site:news.ycombinator.com some words i remember you can use google's search tools to help you too.