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> I guess because it makes zero sense the way it is. What's the point? There are over 10.000 different bang shortcuts. They’re very valuable for several reasons, especially if you …

Definitely wishful thinking, use !s instead. The bang shortcuts just take you to the other websites.. sure, you gain a few things, like Google not knowing what you typed to arrive …

Yeah their documentation is dreadful, but they could just append loc:countryCode to the query before making the API request: e.g. ‘attractions loc:dk’.. at least that works for me …

What’s stopping them from performing an offline IP location lookup and requesting location specific search results without sharing the IP with Microsoft?

Definitely not impossible. Microsoft offers a pay-as-you-go Bing Search API ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-... ). I can only assume ecosia share this…

If you feel my tone was aggressive, condescending or negative in other ways then I’m sorry. I think it’s an unfair interpretation to believe that I don’t want to use HN as intended…

Could you clarify one thing: if a thread has already reached the frontpage (and is in a position where it should only continue to gain popularity rather than disappear, e.g. 50 upv…

It's really not. If you spent 10 minutes on HN Algolia and looked through all threads that reference China in the title (e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china&sort=byPopularity&…

Every thread that paints China in a negative light on HN always follow the same pattern: - USA whataboutism - Mass flagging (resulting in the story getting knocked off the frontpag…