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Although, something I value a lot from algolia is the very fast live search as you type[0].
Vectara seems to be smarter, but much slower.
My needs are satisfied with algolia 99% of the time as a technical user.
[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Am I the only one that hasn't noticed the search input in the footer? :O
These days I use the search feature much more than commenting or reading posts. The frontpage is the usual recent news addiction treadmill, while for research into niche topics you can find a treasure trove of interesting comments in the archives. Want more posts about Lisp, Smalltalk and reverse engineering, for example, rather than the usual front page drivel? Search for them. On one hand I wish Algolia didn't give…
javascript:(function() {function randomDate(start, end) {var date = new Date(+start + Math.random() \* (end - start));var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);var year = date.getFullYear();return year + '-' + month + '-' + day;}var startDate = new Date(2007, 9, 9);var endDate = new Date();var randomDateStr = randomDate(startDate, endDate);var newUrl = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=' + randomDateStr;window.location.href = newUrl;})();Earlier quoted context omitted.
These days I use the search feature much more than commenting or reading posts. The frontpage is the usual recent news addiction treadmill, while for research into niche topics you can find a treasure trove of interesting comments in the archives. Want more posts about Lisp, Smalltalk and reverse engineering, for example, rather than the usual front page drivel? Search for them. On one hand I wish Algolia didn't give…
I also made a bookmarklet to show me HN posts from random dates, it is quite interesting to see what was interesting to people a decade ago, for example. Lots of comments in HN's heyday were pretty eye opening as well. javascript:(function() {function randomDate(start, end) {var date = new Date(+start + Math.random() \* (end - start));var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)…
Am I the only one that hasn't noticed the search input in the footer? :O
Thanks, 10 years of HN and I was still using "site:news.ycombinator.com"
Like some other comments here I find HN search useful and powerful and am a little unsure what the added value is here. Possibly/probably it's for people that search in a different way to me. One of the most frequent searches I do is to look for a specific comment that I know a user made recently. For example, I might want to look for my own comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801389 (sorry, this is…
Please, add also the possibility to search in links posted/commented in hacker news. I bet it would be competitive against google for the hn crowd.
Searching for "iptables" returns first: > Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed Not so useful.
It’s matching two comments in the thread. It bolds the part that talks about iptables in each. So it’s not like it’s irrelevant, even though it is certainly not actually the most relevant one either. It seems to give better results if you are more specific. For example, try the following search: how to use iptables effectively And have a look at the first five or so results. Also, note that OP said it’s searching abo…