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Ask HN: Given a URL, how do I find the HN submission of it?

2 points by photon_off 16y ago

I'm positive there is a simple answer to this, I just haven't discovered it yet. searchyc.com searches within HN posts, but doesn't appear to allow you to search based on what the HN post is referring to. Thanks.

pierrefar 16y ago
If you can get the title of the submission, then a quoted search with the site: operator on Google or Yahoo! would find it. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22PagerDuty+%28YC+S10%29+Makes+Sure+Your+Team+Knows+When+A+Server+Goes+Down%22+site:news.ycombinator.com http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22PagerDuty+%28YC+S10%29+M... Both have APIs.
- chaosprophet 16y ago
  I doubt if that would work in the cases where the submission title on HN is different from the page title.
sajid 16y ago
Submit the URL as if you were posting a new story. If it's a duplicate, the post will fail and you will be shown a link to the original submission.
- photon_off 16y ago
  ... and if it is not a duplicate I end up submitting an article when I don't particularly want to.
  - sajid 16y ago
    If it is a duplicate then you can delete it.
    - sajid 16y ago
      Meant to say if it's not a duplicate then you can delete it.