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Comment by samuell | Hacker News Reader

I basically stick 'site:news.ycombinator.com' to most of my searches these days anyways, to the extent I should look for a plugin to have it permanently added (although mostly via DuckDuckGo or Brave Search).

It is a preciously rare gem on today's web.

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Side note: Why do people add

    site:...

to their search query instead of just ... the name of the website?

I do the latter and it works perfectly well, for example "apple vision pro hackernews" or "apple vision pro reddit".

On duckduckgo, the apple vision query only returns 3/8 results actually from hackernews.

(I myself prefer using the native HN search / duckduckgo bangs, because it can sort by date and shows the comment count for each thread).

That seems terribly limiting.

Much better signal to noise ratio though.

one can always fall back to regular search queries as needed. i find that searching"<query> reddit" and falling back to "<query>" is usually going to get me an answer faster than the other way around.

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