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Hey, I know the feeling! It can be frustrating when we can't find something we're sure we saw on HN. When default search failed me in the past, I've had some l

Hey, I know the feeling! It can be frustrating when we can't find something we're sure we saw on HN. When default search failed me in the past, I've had some luck with experimental search projects that people have created. I'm sharing them hoping one might help you find what you're looking for: * [Vectara](https://search-hackernews.vercel.app/ https://search-hackernews.vercel.app/) * [Hacker Search](https://hackersearch.net/ https://hackersearch.net/) * [HN Discussion Search](https://searchhacker.news/ https://searchhacker.news/) * [Hacker News Search](https://hn.lixiasearch.com/ https://hn.lixiasearch.com/) * [DeepHN](https://deephn.org/ https://deephn.org/) Give them a try and see if any of these tools can help you track down the post you're looking for. Good luck!

flanbiscuit 2y ago
Thanks for these! I tried a few of these and https://hn.lixiasearch.com/ https://hn.lixiasearch.com/ turned up exactly what I was looking for as the first result. Gonna have to bookmark that one. I also had a HN story I've been looking for that I couldn't find via HN's algolia search, nor any major search engine.
- incognito124 2y ago
  What did you search for anyways?
  - flanbiscuit 2y ago
    This was the post I was looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894300 This was last night so I'm forgetting exactly what I searched but it was something like: "blog about a developer helping his mom with her chromebook she couldn't update". HN's algolia search is sometimes helpful but you need to know exactly what was either in the title or in the comments. I tried multiple keywords like "ChromeOS", "mom", "javascript error", "chromebook", and so on. I couldn't remember the exact details of the story. Now that I know "optional chaining" is in the title, I can find it right away.
wingerlang 2y ago
Is this an AI generated comment?
- efilife 2y ago
  Certainly feels a bit like AI. People on HN are overly nice* sometimes, it contributes to this feeling a lot *Not a bad thing, I'm just saying the comment could be shorter by 50% and stil convey the same meaning
xbkandxe 2y ago
All of them except the last one were nice. Turned up a lot of results I wasn't getting from Algolia, DDG, or Google. Unfortunately, even after digging through pages and pages, I couldn't find what I was looking for. :-( I might just have to say "I messed up by not bookmarking this" and accept that I'll likely never see it again. Thanks anyway. :-)

flanbiscuit 2y ago

Thanks for these! I tried a few of these and https://hn.lixiasearch.com/ https://hn.lixiasearch.com/ turned up exactly what I was looking for as the first result. Gonna have to bookmark that one. I also had a HN story I've been looking for that I couldn't find via HN's algolia search, nor any major search engine.

incognito124 2y ago
What did you search for anyways?
- flanbiscuit 2y ago
  This was the post I was looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894300 This was last night so I'm forgetting exactly what I searched but it was something like: "blog about a developer helping his mom with her chromebook she couldn't update". HN's algolia search is sometimes helpful but you need to know exactly what was either in the title or in the comments. I tried multiple keywords like "ChromeOS", "mom", "javascript error", "chromebook", and so on. I couldn't remember the exact details of the story. Now that I know "optional chaining" is in the title, I can find it right away.

wingerlang 2y ago

Is this an AI generated comment?

efilife 2y ago
Certainly feels a bit like AI. People on HN are overly nice* sometimes, it contributes to this feeling a lot *Not a bad thing, I'm just saying the comment could be shorter by 50% and stil convey the same meaning

xbkandxe 2y ago

All of them except the last one were nice. Turned up a lot of results I wasn't getting from Algolia, DDG, or Google. Unfortunately, even after digging through pages and pages, I couldn't find what I was looking for. :-( I might just have to say "I messed up by not bookmarking this" and accept that I'll likely never see it again. Thanks anyway. :-)