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I was not aware that HN had a search feature. Link?

• grzm 6y ago
  See the footer.
• jsnell 6y ago
  The search box is at the bottom of this very page.
• deelowe 6y ago
  Type "[search term] news.ycombinator.com" or "[search term] reddit.com" into Google. If that doesn't work, you can reverse it "news.ycombinator.com [search term]" if you really want to limit to just hackernews. The former seems to work better for me most of the time.
  • anon9001 6y ago
    https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 you actually want "site:".
    • deelowe 6y ago
      No need to downvote. I'm familiar with the keywords. My point was that omitting them sometimes produces better results. I suspect that putting hackernews in the query tricks it into realizing I'm looking for technical topics.
• tannhaeuser 6y ago
  It's at the bottom of the page dude.
  • Yizahi 6y ago
    After using HN for 6 years I just realized that it is there. Instead I had a separate bookmark to HN search for all these years :) . Apparently I just ignore footer completely as useless part of website.
    • tannhaeuser 6y ago
      There's room for slight improvements to the hn layout I guess ;) While we're at it, we could maybe place the logout link a bit further away from the profile link to avoid frequent inadvertent logoffs on mobile. Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN.
      • Sebb767 6y ago
        > Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN. Isn't this just manually entering the prefix?
        • tannhaeuser 6y ago
          I don't know. Is it?
    • 0-O-0 6y ago
      I've used search several times, but each time I want to use it again I still waste time looking for it in the header instead of scrolling to the footer.
  • electrograv 6y ago
    Wow. I cannot believe I’ve been reading HN for so long and never noticed that. Thank you.