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Comment by codazoda | Hacker News Reader

The search box at the bottom of HN still links to this subdomain which means that HN searches are currently broken. So, hopefully this is just a temporary glitch or oversight.

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Wait… how long has that search been there?!

Edit: Wow. One of those occurrences where something has always been there and I just never really noticed.

I don't know exactly, but it's been a pretty long time. Probably at least 10 years?

https://www.algolia.com/blog/customers/hacker-news-search-al...

January 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301 ("Last Friday, we have released the new HN Search (http://hn.algolia.com)")

(Found by plugging "hn.algolia.com" into hn.algolia.com and bisecting by date).

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hn.algolia.com

HN also have domain search built-in, sorted by date. Here is the first submissions about hn.algolia.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hn.algolia.com&next=7... (click the domain name next to the submission title)

Or just use Google or DDG or whatever your favorite search engine is, and restrict it to HN with: site:news.ycombinator.com

Missing the feature to filter by amount of comments or score and sorting by date. But works well enough in a "emergency" I suppose :)

I was just about to reply that you can sort by date but it’s usually hidden in a menu somewhere, but just checked and it’s actually gone on both. WTF, I could have sworn this used to be available somewhere, just usually buried.

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