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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)
on Sunday June 05, 2011 @02:41AM (#2621509)
It's been a rough week. Hopefully things will return to normal once DNS propagates.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)
on Sunday June 05, 2011 @12:39AM (#2621316)
Little known fact: SearchYC does instant search if you add &instant=true to the URL: http://searchyc.com/hacker+news?sort=by_date&instant=tru...
It's not enabled by default because it's not as useful without autocomplete.
Re:Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)
on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @09:19PM (#1674096)
I agree quoted strings in queries would be nice. There are some technical challenges in handling mixed queries where some terms are quoted and others are not, though.
Re:Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)
on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @04:41PM (#1673419)
"Abandonware" may be a bit extreme. How would you change SearchYC?
Re:Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizer...
on Saturday August 14, 2010 @09:25PM (#1604379)
Those comments were cached when comment scores were turned off 10 months ago. It's strange that they haven't been updated since then.
Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN?
on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:01AM (#1329717)
Well, no. SearchYC has no revenue. I maintain SearchYC and host it out of a box in my closet as a service to the community. It doesn't make any sense for me to commit to do "whatever it takes".
That being said, with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware and some software changes, SearchYC should be able to gracefully handle a couple orders of magnitude more traffic.
Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN?
on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:39PM (#1329528)
As it stands, SearchYC doesn't get enough daily uniques to justify beefing up the system. Frankly, SearchYC was an experiment in how quickly I could learn a new technology (RoR) and build a system. I was completely expecting someone to come along a few months later to make SearchYC obsolete. It's been 2.5 years, and I don't think that's happened yet.
Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN?
on Friday May 07, 2010 @10:52PM (#1329457)
HN handles considerably more traffic than SearchYC.
Re:Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines
on Monday March 15, 2010 @08:41PM (#1194584)
Not unless pg replies to this with "Please stop".
Re:Apple Expects To Ship 10 Million Tablets in First Year
on Friday January 01, 2010 @12:42PM (#1025955)
I wonder if the FTC is scratching their heads wondering what to do about Apple product rumors.
Re:HN top-100 sorted by karma per day
on Monday October 05, 2009 @12:45AM (#861232)
SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.
Re:Searchyc.com down again?
on Saturday October 03, 2009 @07:13PM (#859362)
I just moved the box from Cupertino to Palo Alto. Should be up now.
Re:Http://searchyc.com/ down?
on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @03:40PM (#853465)
Oops, just restarted the server. Incidentally, the server will be down at some point in the coming few days because I'm moving.
Re:YC Top List
on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @04:37PM (#773716)
Re:Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:05AM (#767401)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607285
edit: How often does Google reply with the answer when you comment that you can't find something using their site? Now that's service right there...
Re:Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight
on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @08:06PM (#759637)
Anywhere dark and clear, preferably in the mountains or on beaches away from the city. Skyline Blvd has worked well for me.
Re:Top Domains posted on Hacker News
on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @02:47AM (#680411)
Why are so many sites filtered out? And by what criteria?
Re:How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:00PM (#680009)
Gah! Thanks for the tip. There's a bug relating to quotes on SearchYC and "how to be a" are all stopwords or ranked very low in relevance.
http://searchyc.com/programmer+short+comprehensive+personal+...
Re:Investigating sine waves in Google Trends
on Monday June 29, 2009 @04:20AM (#678679)
We may be reading too much into this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=base+10%2Cdirac%2Ccheerios...
Re:Investigating sine waves in Google Trends
on Monday June 29, 2009 @02:40AM (#678615)
I wouldn't be surprised if the "pi" trend correlates well with vacation times in academia.
Re:SearchYC Presents: SearchAF and SearchNM
on Saturday May 23, 2009 @01:13AM (#623164)
Server restart--I'm still pushing out a few minor changes.
SearchYC Presents: SearchAF and SearchNM
Re:Hey HN: I need a dead simple automatic way to backup my databases.
on Thursday May 07, 2009 @05:24PM (#598708)
I hope you realize the implications of handing over your databases to a third party.
Re:What You'll Wish You'd Known (2005)
on Saturday March 28, 2009 @02:57PM (#536643)
Had to go into the database for this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58424
Re:Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive
on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:29PM (#522603)
I don't think this qualifies as a garden path sentence because the reader doesn't "build an incorrect structure because the next word doesn't fit into that structure".
This is more an example of syntactic ambiguity where a sentence may be "reasonably interpreted in more than one way": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity
Interesting link, though. I didn't know the formal term for these types of sentences.
Re:Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive
on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @02:23PM (#522066)
Did anyone else read the title as "Programmer from Finland has lost (finger replaced with USB drive)"? I have a tendency to lose USB keys...
Re:Computer Vision for Python
on Thursday February 26, 2009 @11:04AM (#495960)
It's a Python interface to OpenCV's shared libraries. You still need the OpenCV binaries to be installed, though not necessarily the source.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in ...
on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @11:29PM (#495441)
Inflation. $50k in 1999 is roughly $63k now. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Re:Remind HN: Open Hacker House every Wed in San Francisco
on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:59PM (#492109)
What about those of us with 9-5s?