I use bookmarks to enhance this. I save a page and then rename the bookmark to some letter codes, for hackernews it's "hn: Hacker News", which makes typing "hn"

I use bookmarks to enhance this. I save a page and then rename the bookmark to some letter codes, for hackernews it's "hn: Hacker News", which makes typing "hn" bring up the bookmark no matter how cluttered, or recently cleared, my browser history becomes.