I've actually been surprised how quickly HN is indexed. When I see comments about a seemingly niche thing, I often google for more details - and often enough the comment that made me google it is among the top results.
Re:Hackernews.com
by sillysaurusx on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:15AM
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Odd. I get HN results. You're right that it's not as frequent as SO or Reddit, but it seems to surpass the "hardly ever" threshold.
> I hardly ever see HN results on Google.
Got to DuckDuck #1 with this string: "propulsive thrombosis survivable flotation counterexample" (Interesting picture collection)
Kept making NASA #1 until I threw thrombosis in. Got slow though :)
Re:Hackernews.com
by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:43AM
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To what end? Accelerating towards Eternal September?
But there is quality content here that doesn’t seem to show up in search the way Reddit and Stackoverflow content often show up in search.
Have dang/others looked into SEO? Or maybe it’s explicitly not a priority?