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Here's a lengthy discussion of the question:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334

In that PG says it's hard, but SearchYC seems to have got something that's good enough. Ironically enough, I found that using it:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/PG+search?sort=by_date

Recently, however, it would appear that SearchYC has been lagging, and I wonder if it has been blocked by PG/YC. PG has said elsewhere that he's developing his own search engine for HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955703

Perhaps he's deliberately blocking it to make his search seem better. Seems unlikely. Perhaps they scraped too aggressively and triggered a block. Seems more likely.

But the subject comes up a lot, and many people are dissatisfied. Lots of people therefore scrape, and that puts extra load on the server. You're proposing to do the same. It would be better if a distributed scraping system were devised, and that had a proper API. Alternatively, if PG provided a proper API, but why should he?

Let PG focus on getting good discussions, and someone else to provide a better filter or tagging system. More scraping, more load, but if someone does something "properly" then maybe the others can finally stop.

I might however delete it, if that's of any help.

But people won't search.

No one will bother. People will just submit the link and if it's a duplicate, who cares? It's too much work to see if anyone has submitted the same thing in the past few minutes, let alone the last few hours, or days, or weeks.