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1. A more powerful time filter would be very useful (Last week, last month, last year, custom range where dates can be picked). Without this search is not very

1. A more powerful time filter would be very useful (Last week, last month, last year, custom range where dates can be picked). Without this search is not very useful to me at the moment. So I use Google to search HN since they do offer a filter 2. Points filter and comments filter would also be great (> 10 points and/or > 5 comments). I get lot of results which have no activity

redox_ 12y ago
1. Makes sense, good point! 2. Yes, there is actually a trick in the query syntax: if you use "points>10" you'll get all posts that have more than 10 points. I'll plug the filter on the number of comments as well (like comments>X). Do you think we should rather have sliders?
- boundlessdreamz 12y ago
  Sliders will probably make the UI a bit busy in the current version. If the syntax is easy, just linking to the syntax should be sufficient. In your experimental UI, the sidebar can expose all these filters without cluttering up the main UI
faizshah 12y ago
I agree, my biggest annoyance with HN search by far is the time filter. If I am looking for a post I saw a few weeks ago I have to search through a years worth of posts with my keywords in it (if it's between a year and a month ago). I think a good feature to add to HN Search would be some kind of clustering of the same link. So if a link has been reposted many times you can see all the discussions of it in one result.
EC1 12y ago
How do you search HN with Google? My Google-fu is lacking.
- DanBC 12y ago
  inurl:news.ycombinator.com
  - faizshah 12y ago
    "site:" will work better than "inurl:" I think "inurl:" limits the search to urls with "news.ycombinator.com" in their url while "site:" will only search the url "news.ycombinator.com" thus limiting the search to HN. So the search would be "site:news.ycombinator.com" then you just use search tools and limit the date.

redox_ 12y ago

1. Makes sense, good point! 2. Yes, there is actually a trick in the query syntax: if you use "points>10" you'll get all posts that have more than 10 points. I'll plug the filter on the number of comments as well (like comments>X). Do you think we should rather have sliders?

boundlessdreamz 12y ago
Sliders will probably make the UI a bit busy in the current version. If the syntax is easy, just linking to the syntax should be sufficient. In your experimental UI, the sidebar can expose all these filters without cluttering up the main UI

faizshah 12y ago

I agree, my biggest annoyance with HN search by far is the time filter. If I am looking for a post I saw a few weeks ago I have to search through a years worth of posts with my keywords in it (if it's between a year and a month ago). I think a good feature to add to HN Search would be some kind of clustering of the same link. So if a link has been reposted many times you can see all the discussions of it in one result.

EC1 12y ago

How do you search HN with Google? My Google-fu is lacking.

DanBC 12y ago
inurl:news.ycombinator.com
- faizshah 12y ago
  "site:" will work better than "inurl:" I think "inurl:" limits the search to urls with "news.ycombinator.com" in their url while "site:" will only search the url "news.ycombinator.com" thus limiting the search to HN. So the search would be "site:news.ycombinator.com" then you just use search tools and limit the date.