SearchYC.com - Latest Comments in Search Y Combinator - Feedback

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KeepTrying (handle on HN) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:11:56 -0000

Hey guys can you please Open Source this app or hand it off ? There are a bunch of guys on the HN post that want to do this. If you scroll down you'll see their comments.

I really think this is an invaluable resource and I can help you find a home for this code on HN ? How much does it cost to run?

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GabrielMtn — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:37:29 -0000

Thanks for everything!

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Tom — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:55:50 -0000

Is there a way to stop it searching for words that are close to the word you're looking for? I'm searching for conversation, and it brings up conversions. They're two very different topics that both get a lot of hits and its very annoying. Can I change this somehow?

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Sebastian Wain — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:38:39 -0000

I just found what I think it's a small bug in the json format generation. It includes invalid characters like ^K (0xb).

The example I found is in the page 98 on the id=1347660

http://json.searchyc.com/su...

They are inserted within: "Idea Bank for \u00b5Torrent"

Thanks.

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gus_massa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:44:11 -0000

It would be nice to see the number of comments for each submission, because the comments on HN are usually very interesting.

For example there are ~13 matches in:

http://searchyc.com/submiss...

Perhaps this can be enabled only for old submissions, that have a fixed final number of comments.

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Dev Nbafna — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:29:56 -0000

this is cool..when i searched for "play! framework" i got a killed server message but it worked fine with "play framework" search

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marcuswestin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:04:25 -0000

Thanks for a cool service guys.

Is there a filter for users listed on http://top.searchyc.com/use... I think I'd be in the middle there somewhere, but don't show up (marcuswestin).

Cheers!
Marcus

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chengmi — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:22:39 -0000

That's true. Can you think of a way to reliably measure the number of active users?

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Benson Fung — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:41:23 -0000

Top Submission by points is skewed; submissions bubble up higher when there are more users on HN, perhaps there also needs to be "Top Submissions by points normalized by # of active users on HN"?

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Matthias — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:28:18 -0000

Nice service! A suggestion: It would be interesting to jump to a random old submission, to see some discussions/articles that where in vogue earlier. History is always interesting.

Perhaps you could weight the probability to get to each specific submission by its score. (With a little preprocessing, i.e. building a weighted tree, you should be able to give out random submissions in O(log n) time, where n is the number of submissions in your data base.)

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zck — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:17:58 -0000

The search doesn't seem to search across both the url submitted and the title at the same time. I was trying to search for the previous time pg's usesthis.com interview was posted. Searching "pg usesthis" returns no results, but should. "usesthis" is in the url (but not the title), and "pg" is in the submission. The submission shows up in the list of results for "usesthis", so it definitely is indexed, and I was able to find it.

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Sam Huleatt — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:19:10 -0000

Just wanted to thank you guys for this great service. Next to Google, I probably use your search engine the most. Major props!

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Lee — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:51:52 -0000

can you filter out comments that are below a certain threshold? search is a bit useless when it returns tons of "ask hn's" and no answers

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Robin Message — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:11:24 -0000

Hi guys,

Firstly, thanks for making this service. It's really useful when I know someone said something insightful a few months previously! I have a small request: Could you include the comment score in the RSS feed somehow (either in it's own XML namespace or in a category tag?) I want to get a feed of my own comments, and since you already have one I though I'd use yours, but I need the scores.

Thanks!

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Michael Fairley — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:25:26 -0000

Thanks!

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chengmi — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:03:26 -0000

Done.

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Michael Fairley — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:58:22 -0000

I made an updated version of Gabriel Weinberg's Ask YC Archive and was wondering if you wouldn't mind linking to it at the top of ask.searchyc.com as you did to his. http://remembersaurus.com/a...

Thanks!

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schindyguy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:45:43 -0000

this is a great service i found out about from going to the la hackernews meeting. i think you guys should add a tab or include under the top tab some of the mashup rss feeds that pull the most up to date top posts for the day. hackernews is getting so popular its hard to visit and not miss anything

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Asf — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:30:42 -0000

this is absolutely aaawesome

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DTrejo — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:48:37 -0000

Hello,

Do you guys maintain a copy of the whole YC site?

This would be a great service to the community, as it would preserve HN as a resource even if it dies (hopefully that never happens).
-DT

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chengmi — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:12:46 -0000

The index should be slowly updating now.

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chengmi — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:58:36 -0000

It looks like the crawler is running fine and the entries in the database are valid, but for some reason the search index has stopped updating. I'll take a look and let you know. Thanks!

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chengmi — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:56:26 -0000

Thanks, I'll look into it.

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Anonymous! — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:03:30 -0000

Hi there! Looks like your index hasn't been updated in about 6 days or so. Just wanted to let you know real quick in case you weren't aware.

EG, check:
http://searchyc.com/submiss... vs
http://news.ycombinator.com...

Anyway, great website, and keep up the good work!

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gene t — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:02:22 -0000

The spidering (or however you collect new stories) seems to have bogged down. Search and sort by date on "clojure:" doesn't return stories like htese from last 36 hours

http://news.ycombinator.com...