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Ask HN: Would you like to be able to search HN?

25 pointsAndrewDucker19 comments

At the moment there's no way to find a previous discussion of a particular link. I wanted to see discussion of the Coding Horror post on SSDs and the only way to find it was to attempt to submit the URL myself and get redirected to page.

Anyone else feel this would be useful to have as exposed functinality?

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http://searchyc.com/

http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html

Maybe that should added to the FAQ ?

Actually, there is already an "HNSearch" image and link in the footer of each page. It's to the right of the "Green" image. Nobody seems to notice it, maybe we should make it pink?

no, make it a form field with a button next to it, that submits to http://searchyc.com/.

For what it's worth, Xichekolas's Greasemonkey script adds such a field and button, as well as doing several other useful things.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

second that, and maybe repeat in top bar if graphic design looks ok.

I periodically google search with site:news.ycomb..

But that's a link to a FF extension, not a search page.

This would make it easier to find for me, since I tend to ignore logos at the bottom of webpages.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe at the top would be better:

I installed it.

And then turned it off after a minute of playing with it.

If I want to find HN discussion of a particular URL then it doesn't really help - and I don't want HN links turning up every time I google for something.

http://searchyc.com/coding+horror+solid?sort=by_date

The only problem was that "SSD" was not in the same comment as "Coding Horror" anywhere.

Alternatively, there is a fairly well-known search engine already out there:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=coding+horror+ssd+site:news...

Someone needs to produce a "hybrid" SATA SSD/disk in 2.5" form factor that presents one 32GB SSD disk, and one much larger conventional HD.

Huh? 3.5" form maybe? (Put a 2.5" disk in there and fill the rest with the SSD stuff)

Where do you fit it all in a 2.5" form factor?

Next to the platters, which are round, and thus don't fill the entire space of the package.

See this picture: http://technoxy.blogspot.com/2008/03/fujitsu-announced-320gb...

I don't know exactly how big the Intel SSD chips are, but I just bought a 16 gb micro-SDHC card that was smaller than my little finger nail, including a plastic casing with connectors on it for my cellphone.

32 G SSD is not that voluminous, I'm pretty sure a determined engineer could squeeze it in there somewhere.

I wish there were some way to find new comments (is there?), because it takes a lot of re-reading to find them in the 100+ comment threads.

Sorting would get us partway there (but not completely because the comments are nested).

Yeah I don't know why they took something that wasn't broken (the reddit envelope system) and made it less useful. It'd also be nice to save pages to view later as Reddit allows one to do. I know the goal was to minimize interface options here, but these are useful interface features that make for less clicking around or using third-party products.

I installed and use the "read it later" extension for firefox solely for the purpose of tagging HN articles to read later.

Alternately I'd also love to see a page which lists all of the stories I've upvoted? That might do the trick for me.

I was thinking of a search box in HN itself. But I settled with the key word book mark for http://searchyc.com/%s in firefox.

that'll be great. I'm using the google search "query" site:http://news.ycombinator.com/ method (very impresssive) for now, but a search option will be welcome.

I did the same but using the site in advance search in google. I will try the other methods. However a small search field would be nice.

preferably the same thing - search field top and bottom that does a google site:foo closure over Ycombinator.com.

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