You can mitigate that by spidering users and searching domains to build a more complete database - http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte

You can mitigate that by spidering users and searching domains to build a more complete database - http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filter[fields][type]=submission&filter[fields][username]=minimaxir http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte... http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filter[fields][type]=submission&q=arstechnica.com http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte... I wrote a small NodeJS spider if anyone's interested - https://github.com/benlowry/hnsubmitterstats https://github.com/benlowry/hnsubmitterstats