It seems you didn't notice that the search feature on HN (news.ycombinator.com) is actually handled on an external site (www.hnsearch.com). The tech behind the

It seems you didn't notice that the search feature on HN (news.ycombinator.com) is actually handled on an external site (www.hnsearch.com). The tech behind the HN search feature (thriftdb) was created by the amazing folks at Octopart, which is one of the very early YC funded companies.