Yeah the search here sucks. My attempt at finding stuff is to
A) save it on my blog so I have the original copy I can then search via google
B) in FOX: site: http://news.ycombinator.com search+term
Look one way to get around it is for someone to spider the site and link back (damn I lost the link .... someone has a search site where???), another is to get a google box for what USD$5K and integrate google search. As the site grows, search is becoming important for historical articles, phrases or people who you want to ascribe a comment. Guess this is what's meant by users loving new features. I'm just glad there is somewhere for stuff like this to be discussed. So while search sucks, it's not integral, for me at least.
And by the way the word "Artichoke" is a vegetable reference from Wallace & Grommit, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit:_The_Curse_o...
bootload's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52955
I didn't bookmark it because I didn't expect it would be hard to find. But now I can't find it at all.
The poster mentioned Melbourne was the 'artichoke end of the world'. Googling for 'artichoke' on news.yccombinator.com has no results. How frequently does Google spider most sites anyway?