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It's been a rough week. Hopefully things will return to normal once DNS propagates.

Little known fact: SearchYC does instant search if you add &instant=true to the URL: http://searchyc.com/hacker+news?sort=by_date&instant=tru... It's not enabled by default because…

I agree quoted strings in queries would be nice. There are some technical challenges in handling mixed queries where some terms are quoted and others are not, though.

"Abandonware" may be a bit extreme. How would you change SearchYC?

Those comments were cached when comment scores were turned off 10 months ago. It's strange that they haven't been updated since then.

Well, no. SearchYC has no revenue. I maintain SearchYC and host it out of a box in my closet as a service to the community. It doesn't make any sense for me to commit to do "whatev…

As it stands, SearchYC doesn't get enough daily uniques to justify beefing up the system. Frankly, SearchYC was an experiment in how quickly I could learn a new technology (RoR) an…

HN handles considerably more traffic than SearchYC.

Not unless pg replies to this with "Please stop".

I wonder if the FTC is scratching their heads wondering what to do about Apple product rumors.

SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.

I just moved the box from Cupertino to Palo Alto. Should be up now.

Oops, just restarted the server. Incidentally, the server will be down at some point in the coming few days because I'm moving.

http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607285 edit: How often does Google reply with the answer when you comment that you can't find something using their site? Now that's service rig…

Anywhere dark and clear, preferably in the mountains or on beaches away from the city. Skyline Blvd has worked well for me.

Why are so many sites filtered out? And by what criteria? http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points

Gah! Thanks for the tip. There's a bug relating to quotes on SearchYC and "how to be a" are all stopwords or ranked very low in relevance. http://searchyc.com/programmer+short+comp…

We may be reading too much into this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=base+10%2Cdirac%2Ccheerios&#3...

I wouldn't be surprised if the "pi" trend correlates well with vacation times in academia.

Server restart--I'm still pushing out a few minor changes.