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Re: Ask HN: Trying to find an old HN post, failing at search

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Post by xbkandxe »

throwitaway1123 wrote: post #11
xbkandxe wrote: post #2

Can't edit my post now…but I'm _pretty_ sure it was just HTML/CSS/JS, no running code anywhere. Could be wrong.

Are you thinking of stagit maybe? Which (as the name suggests) is a static git frontend: https://github.com/oxalorg/stagit

Unfortunately not what I was looking for, but still neat; thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: Trying to find an old HN post, failing at search

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Post by xbkandxe »

distalx wrote: post #6

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/ ) * [Hacker Search]( https://hackersearch.net/ ) * [HN Discussion Search]…

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. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Trying to find an old HN post, failing at search

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Post by flanbiscuit »

incognito124 wrote: post #14
flanbiscuit wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for these! I tried a few of these and 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.

What did you search for anyways?

This was the post I was looking for: 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.

Re: Ask HN: Trying to find an old HN post, failing at search

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Post by efilife »

wingerlang wrote: post #18
distalx wrote: post #6

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/ ) * [Hacker Search]( https://hackersearch.net/ ) * [HN Discussion Search]…

Is this an AI generated comment?

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

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