In this case I cheated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29362079. Couldn't think of a new joke either.

The other way of doing this is CPS style: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Otherwise we end up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970518 or worse.