This is a great and interesting site for people like me who are very much interested in hacker and tech. news especially startup news. Keep up the good work!
Thank you, Sujan
petenixey
· 1 year ago
HI Guys,
Love the site and super-useful. Would be better still if you could do RSS feeds on search terms, any chance of getting it onto the spec?
Cheers Peter
chengmi
· 1 year ago
Thanks Peter.
PG has mentioned that he's planning to add some new feeds (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165854), so we're going to hold off on that for a bit. Interesting idea, though.
I'm guessing you're using the mean for the 'n points per comment/submission'. I'd suggest using the median instead. The mean unduly punishes comments and submissions that stay at the default value of 1, and overly rewards those with high scores.
On the ask. section, could you add the # of comments in addition to the # of points?
chengmi
· 1 year ago
How useful would this be? I'm tempted not to, just because I think it'll add to the clutter. But if you can make a case for it, I'm listening.
Gabriel Weinberg
· 1 year ago
It would be very useful to me, personally. When I'm going through the last week's ask posts to update the Ask YC Archive I am looking for "quality" posts. Usually this means a subset of the ones with the most points, but occasionally, there are posts with few points but with a lot of comments. If those comments are good, I want to include those posts. I don't click on absolutely everything, so I think adding it would help me avoid some false negatives.
chengmi
· 1 year ago
ok, we'll try it out... let me know if you come up with a better layout for that page.
The median/mean point score for each thread would probably be more useful than the number of comments. Hmm...
Alex
· 1 year ago
Hi Folks, I love your site! So helpful! Thumbs Up!
pedalpete
· 1 year ago
I was wondering why HN didn't have a search feature, I thought that was crazy. Happy to have found you guys have done it (or I might have done it myself).
Nice work.
G
· 1 year ago
Hey, guys--great work. There seems to be something weird going on when I search for "fonts" or "font." 200,000 results are returned (probably everything). Any idea why?
chengmi
· 1 year ago
Darn. I knew someone would catch on some day.
I was lazy and fed the raw html into the indexer, so you're seeing everything with the string "font", as well as posts containing a "font" tag.
I'll update the site with a fix sometime this weekend.
Some kind of litereal search would be nice. Ex. searching for "visualization" all my top hits are for visual studio, which isn't really what I'm after
rada
· 11 months ago
Hi Mike and Alaska
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the YC search. I desperately needed the name of a company recently profiled on HN and wasted a good two hours trying a bunch of search terms with no success. Finally got to SYC and got what I needed immediately. Way better than google's site:xxx search.
Happy New Year and thanks again!
bootload
· 11 months ago
Bug: Enter any search term and the server returns a server error.
What I expected: enter a search term and resultant search returns lots of Hacker News posts related to the search term.
chengmi
· 11 months ago
This is a known issue that's been bugging me for some time. Unfortunately, there's no simple fix, and I haven't had much time to work on this site lately. But I will get around to it--soon, I hope.
The error should be intermittent, so it should work if you retry later on. Sorry for the troubles.
P.S. I thoroughly enjoyed your "Broke (sorry)" images on flickr.
bootload
· 11 months ago
"... This is a known issue that's been bugging me for some time. Unfortunately, there's no simple fix, and I haven't had much time to work on this site lately. But I will get around to it--soon, I hope. ..."
Please do if you get the chance, searchyc is a great service.
"... I thoroughly enjoyed your "Broke (sorry)" images on flickr ..."
Reminds me how broken the web is at any one time to keep me humble :)
Breck
· 11 months ago
When I'm still using a website on a regular basis after a number of months, I know its a winner. Thanks guys.
Xichekolas
· 11 months ago
Noticed you have a firefox plugin, but my HN Toolkit GM script adds a SearchYC box to the actual HN page... in case anyone cares. ;)
Glad to see the performance improvements. Curious to know more about your architecture and if you've considered using Lucene/Solr?
chengmi
· 10 months ago
Yes. In fact, that's what we're running (with a few minor modifications).
Jerrold
· 10 months ago
Thanks for keeping SearchYC updated! It would be neat to have an expanded Top Domains list that listed nearly every domain posted to Hacker News. I enjoy finding new blogs and it would be awesome to have an extensive list of sources that are submitted to HN.
chengmi
· 10 months ago
There are nearly 16,000 unique domains--how many do you want to see?
Jerrold
· 10 months ago
It would be really neat to have a downloadable list of all unique domains sorted by popularity, like Quantcast does (but ranked by number of submissions rather than visitors): http://www.quantcast.com/quantcast-top-million.zip
johnrob
· 10 months ago
Here is a feature request that is relevant only because you are already archiving hackernews:
Send a notification to my email __________ whenever:
(checkbox) Someone replies to a comment from user _________
(checkbox) User _________ makes a submission/comment
There is now a JSON interface. Prepend a search URL with "json." or use the link at the bottom of each page.
Anonymous
· 9 months ago
Hey guys, thanks for the awesome service!
Btw, the text field on your front page isn't getting auto-focused, as intended. Looks like your js trying to focus/select 'search_query' but the input has id='search_id'.
I'm supremely happy that I found this site - it has RSS feeds! You guys rock!
However, I have a minor quibble: In the user comment search (eg, http://searchyc.com/user/bkudria?only=comments) there is a link for each comment labelled 'top' linking back to the original YC thread. But, the RSS feed for the search doesn't include this! Would it be possible to include this URL in the feed?
chengmi
· 8 months ago
Done.
nirmal
· 7 months ago
Would it be possible to search by URL? I only ask because not all submitted links to HN use the text of the submitted page's title tag for the title of the submission.
chengmi
· 7 months ago
Do you mean the text of the URL itself, or the content linked to by the URL? Neither is possible at the moment, but you can search by the domain of the submission: http://searchyc.com/submissions/searchyc?only=d...
nirmal
· 7 months ago
I mean the text of the URL itself. It would make it easy to see if a link has already been submitted and jump directly to the discussion.
Dirka
· 7 months ago
Do you already have (or can you add) search capabilities for pg's Arc Language forum?
Thank you very much for this site. It just saved my bacon.
There was a link that I remembered on HN and didn't realize they didn't have archives. I spent forever this weekend trying to find the link on google (I didn't remember the specifics) with no luck and two minutes after finding your site I found it.
streblo
· 5 months ago
Found a bug: your font tags aren't closing properly.
Would be very helpful to be able to search the most recent comment with the most points. (I want to see which recent posts with a lot of points I might have missed).
breck7
· 4 days ago
if you search for polling or "polling" (as in "long polling"), it shortens it to poll.
All Comments
Thank you,
Sujan
Love the site and super-useful. Would be better still if you could do RSS feeds on search terms, any chance of getting it onto the spec?
Cheers
Peter
PG has mentioned that he's planning to add some new feeds (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=165854), so we're going to hold off on that for a bit. Interesting idea, though.
For example, http://searchyc.com/techmeme+aggregation bolds aggregator.
The median/mean point score for each thread would probably be more useful than the number of comments. Hmm...
Happy to have found you guys have done it (or I might have done it myself).
Nice work.
I was lazy and fed the raw html into the indexer, so you're seeing
everything with the string "font", as well as posts containing a
"font" tag.
I'll update the site with a fix sometime this weekend.
Some kind of litereal search would be nice. Ex. searching for "visualization" all my top hits are for visual studio, which isn't really what I'm after
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the YC search. I desperately needed the name of a company recently profiled on HN and wasted a good two hours trying a bunch of search terms with no success. Finally got to SYC and got what I needed immediately. Way better than google's site:xxx search.
Happy New Year and thanks again!
Enter any search term and the server returns a server error.
How to reproduce:
enter a search term into the big white box and you get "OMG you killed the server!" ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3152460532/
What I expected:
enter a search term and resultant search returns lots of Hacker News posts related to the search term.
The error should be intermittent, so it should work if you retry later on. Sorry for the troubles.
P.S. I thoroughly enjoyed your "Broke (sorry)" images on flickr.
Please do if you get the chance, searchyc is a great service.
"... I thoroughly enjoyed your "Broke (sorry)" images on flickr ..."
Reminds me how broken the web is at any one time to keep me humble :)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
Send a notification to my email __________ whenever:
(checkbox) Someone replies to a comment from user _________
(checkbox) User _________ makes a submission/comment
(submit button)
Btw, the text field on your front page isn't getting auto-focused, as intended. Looks like your js trying to focus/select 'search_query' but the input has id='search_id'.
Thanks again for maintaining this website!!
Keywords: date_from, date_to, maxpoints, minpoints
Thanks in advance!
However, I have a minor quibble:
In the user comment search (eg, http://searchyc.com/user/bkudria?only=comments) there is a link for each comment labelled 'top' linking back to the original YC thread. But, the RSS feed for the search doesn't include this! Would it be possible to include this URL in the feed?
There was a link that I remembered on HN and didn't realize they didn't have archives. I spent forever this weekend trying to find the link on google (I didn't remember the specifics) with no luck and two minutes after finding your site I found it.
<div class="text">
<font color=#000000>Union Square Ventures
http://blog.heyzap.com/uncategorized/heyzap-receives-funding...</font
</div>
Notice how it closes with </font instead of </font>
thanks syc
http://searchyc.com/mdasen?sort=by_date
BTW, great search you have here, I like it a lot!
nice and useful application. Thanks!
It would be nice if queries did handle double quotes to search for exact phrases.
http://www.searchyc.com/http://www.andyrutledge...
is there a way to do exact matches?