I'm constantly doing one of the following:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+someth...

https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+somethin...

[Aside: I really like the DDG mission, but am finding myself more frequently (and unfortunately) returning to Google for technical searches, and switched back to it as my default. I'm finding more relevant results at the top of Google's SERPs. Both DDG and Google diminished IMO when they tried to become "smarter."]