A search URL that does not change, preferably hosted on ycombinator.com. A search URL that does not redirect to Octopart, bless their hearts.
Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you need in HN search?
#22I'd like something that searches the remote contents of the posted urls, sorted by date.
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#23I _always_ immediately turn the settings to "All" and "sort by date"
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#24How about making the site responsive/mobile-friendly first before tackling search?
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#25I ran into a problem today where I'm trying to find something I saw a really long time ago - so sorting by date from oldest to newest would be great. EDIT - If I can filter by date ranges like others have suggested, I would much prefer that to my sort direction request!
I do this all the time. I need to go to google and hope I can find it. I usually only remember some small thing about it... like "flights" or "data set". Sorting by date it was on the front page of HN would be best for me.
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#26Would be cool if it crawled the search terms of the target link. Often I try to find some HN post but I have problems thinking of the words in it.
Do you mean that some automatic tags would help you to remember the keywords for a future search?
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#27Well, my large corporate employer uses Websense which seems to categorize hn.algolia.com as ("Category: hacking"), and blocks all queries (HN itself is fine). So I guess I'd say I need...search. Maybe you can get off the blacklist/on a whitelist?
Oh, interesting :/ Is it the same on "new-hn.algolia.com"? (we removed the HTTP OPTION query that was performed to deal with extra headers & CORS -> maybe it didn't help).
I can access new-hn though I can't say whether it's due to your changes. The https redirect adds an extra step because of a click through "this site could be evil" that Websense adds--I think it stores the acceptance for the http site, but then the https redirect happens which isn't registered on the "possibly evil" click through acceptance list so it initially fails. Manually going to the https version fixes this problem, though.
Man, I hate proxies.
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#28The ability to search only my saved articles. I'm guessing HN does no link click tracking, but searching viewed articles would be nice. These would be especially useful if the text on the target page were indexed as well.
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#30The option to only search in titles, ignoring the full text of text posts.