Ask HN: Ways to search Hacker News?

4 pointsby fredoliveiravor 16 Jahren5 comments

I was just tweeting about how I would like recommendations for academic papers to read, and thought it would certainly have been a previous topic here at HN [1]. The problem was actually finding it.

Then it hit me. There's no real way to browse Hacker News archives. Hacker News is a great resource for entrepreneurs and people with a curious brain - every day there's brilliant insight inside these posts. Insight that will certainly be lost if ways to index/browse/search the archives aren't implemented. Google isn't a big help here either, because it doesn't index content based on relevance (which could theoretically be internally extracted from post attention data and votes).

I'm quite sure I'm not the only one missing this piece of "functionality", and I'd like to see a discussion around finding old topics. How could a HN archive be implemented? Would there be interest?

[1] - Turns out it really was a topic, for the curious: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059478

5 comments

ewamsvor 16 Jahren

At this very moment I am using "advanced" search from googles to find a couple of twitter accounts.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=how+to+sear...

Just add "site:news.ycombinator.com" to the end of your search.

fredoliveiravor 16 Jahren

that's how I found my papers page, but I think you'll agree that results are all but relevant - mostly because pages don't even have a proper semantic hierarchy (i.e: story pages don't have a h1 for title, etc). Google might work for a few things for now, but without drastically changing page structure, it won't be good enough.

one010101vor 16 Jahren

This is how I do it.

maximumwagevor 16 Jahren

I too would like a way to see an archive of all previous stories submitted to HN. For example, Digg has an option to let you see all of the stories that reached the front page over the last year, ranked by votes.

steveklabnikvor 16 Jahren

http://searchyc.com/