<story><title>History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024</title><url>https://trieve.ai/history-of-hnsearch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>On the topic of Hacker News search… a useful trick that not enough people know is that you can take the ID of a story and use search to return all comments ordered by most recent first - great for keeping up with what’s new in a specific conversation.&lt;p&gt;Eg for this thread the most recent comments can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;query=story%3A41228935&amp;amp;sort=byDate&amp;amp;type=comment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;prefix=true&amp;amp;que...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I built an Observable notebook to save me from having to manually construct those searches here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;observablehq.com&amp;#x2F;@simonw&amp;#x2F;hacker-news-homepage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;observablehq.com&amp;#x2F;@simonw&amp;#x2F;hacker-news-homepage&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024</title><url>https://trieve.ai/history-of-hnsearch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>There are a few capabiliti es lacking from Algolia which I&amp;#x27;d really like to see in a replacement:&lt;p&gt;- Negative search &amp;#x2F; exclusion:  the ability to &lt;i&gt;exclude&lt;/i&gt; terms from a search, as in &amp;quot;procfs -linux&amp;quot;, which would look for any references to &amp;quot;procfs&amp;quot; which did not &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; reference &amp;quot;linux&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Edit:&lt;/i&gt;  This exists, see dang&amp;#x27;s reply below.&lt;p&gt;- Replies to a specific user, e.g., &amp;quot;by:dredmorbius inreplyto:skeptrune &amp;lt;search terms&amp;gt;&amp;quot;.  I&amp;#x27;m often looking for a specific context of my own previous comments.&lt;p&gt;- An improved date-bounding interface.  If there&amp;#x27;s one thing that frustrates me about Algolia&amp;#x27;s interface, it&amp;#x27;s the GUI (and syntax) for defining dates.  It&amp;#x27;s cumbersome, and at least on my browser, the dates are generally hard to read or invisible.  Going back years is especially cumbersome.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll add:  Algolia &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; been massively useful, and the fact that I &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; search HN, especially for my own content, has been a huge part of the value of the site, and is worlds ahead of other online platforms.  (Mastodon &amp;#x2F; the Fediverse &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; catching up here, Diaspora*&amp;#x27;s lack of search was among my main frustrations with the site and explains my absence there after more than a decade of participation.)</text></comment>