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Full-text search across every Hacker News story and comment, filterable by date and points. Find the thread where a famous project first appeared.
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HN Search sits in Odd Search Engines under Learn, filed as a minute.
About this category: Reverse image search, niche indexes, and search engines built on a premise other than popularity. What the web looks like when ranked differently.
Yes. HN Search is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use HN Search without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file HN Search as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
A link aggregator about computing that anyone can read: smaller, quieter and more carefully tagged than the big tech news sites.
An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.
Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.
Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.
Tens of thousands of hosted model demos, each running in a browser tab. The closest thing machine learning has to an arcade.
Every known way to lace and tie a shoe, diagrammed by one Australian for over two decades, including a knot he invented himself.
Catalogue, reviews and play links for four decades of interactive fiction, maintained by people who take the form extremely seriously.
Free illustrated repair manuals for phones, laptops, cars and appliances, plus teardowns that name and shame every glued-in battery.
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