I don't rely on Google anymore when I'm trying to find good information. I actually have much better results searching Reddit and HN for specific information.
I was not aware that HN had a search feature. Link?
See the footer.
The search box is at the bottom of this very page.
Type "[search term] news.ycombinator.com" or "[search term] reddit.com" into Google. If that doesn't work, you can reverse it "news.ycombinator.com [search term]" if you really want to limit to just hackernews. The former seems to work better for me most of the time.
No need to downvote. I'm familiar with the keywords. My point was that omitting them sometimes produces better results. I suspect that putting hackernews in the query tricks it into realizing I'm looking for technical topics.
It's at the bottom of the page dude.
After using HN for 6 years I just realized that it is there. Instead I had a separate bookmark to HN search for all these years :) . Apparently I just ignore footer completely as useless part of website.
There's room for slight improvements to the hn layout I guess ;) While we're at it, we could maybe place the logout link a bit further away from the profile link to avoid frequent inadvertent logoffs on mobile. Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN.
> Also, it's probably just me, but I haven't yet figured out how to post an Ask HN/Show HN.
Isn't this just manually entering the prefix?
I don't know. Is it?
I've used search several times, but each time I want to use it again I still waste time looking for it in the header instead of scrolling to the footer.
Wow. I cannot believe I’ve been reading HN for so long and never noticed that. Thank you.