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Strength of Hacker News is the network effect of a diverse, intelligent crowd. It would be hard to replace. A supplemental site tagging it and aiding search has
by nickpsecurity 10y ago
Strength of Hacker News is the network effect of a diverse, intelligent crowd. It would be hard to replace. A supplemental site tagging it and aiding search has value. Biggest problem I have searching HN, though, is Google mixing up stories and comments. The fix might be as simple as two domains that contain stories and comments cloned from HN, one domain for each, followed by Google Searches within those domains. Not sure if Google would automatically crawl it, though.
- CaliforniaKarl 10y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ does the job pretty well!
- SparkyMcUnicorn 10y agoThe brand new https://hacker-search.net https://hacker-search.net isn't bad either.
- gnicholas 10y agoAlso, you can easily search HN in Chrome: start typing news.ycombinator.com, it will be ready for autocomplete, and it will say in grey text "Press [tab] to search HN". The results show up from algolia. If only there were a way to make the default search order recency instead of popularity — most of my searching is before posting something, to make sure it hasn't already been posted.
- zulln 10y agoThe search bar at the bottom of news.ycombinator.com also takes you to that site.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoWeirdly, the default values for the search url are slightly different from what the Chrome search populates them with. The 'address bar search' defaults 'dateRange' to 'all', whilst the script itself defaults 'dateRange' to 'last24h'. Does anyone know how the Chrome address bar search is implemented?
- DanBC 10y agoYes, I used to be critical of the search but it's actually pretty good. I do wish there was a way I could set the defaults. I almost always want to search comments and sort by date.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- searchhn 10y agohttp://searchhn.com http://searchhn.com is a small demo we have been building at Searchera (https://searchera.io https://searchera.io)