HN Search Tools

Discussions revolve around searching Hacker News for previous threads, submissions, and Show HNs, with recommendations for tools like hn.algolia.com, showhn.html, and complaints about native HN search limitations.

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Sample Comments

belter Aug 18, 2025 View on HN

You can Google or use LLMs they index HN too.

gus_massa May 18, 2022 View on HN

There was a semi-regular post by proberts "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200687" https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=probertsTake a look there, perhaps there is something useful. For example <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=a

v2s2c Mar 18, 2018 View on HN

you can try searching on https://hn.algolia.com

Bnshsysjab Jun 21, 2020 View on HN

I’m curious about this, I tried searching but HN search isn’t great. Any chance of a link?

webscout Dec 28, 2020 View on HN

https://upstract.com also has a section for HN, and then some...

gnabgib Dec 12, 2024 View on HN

You've already commented on one of the stories about this, so you know people on HN know. What are you looking for?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394760

rasmus1610 Apr 1, 2018 View on HN

I love https://hn.algolia.com/ to search for topics I’m interested in on HN :)

eliaskg Oct 16, 2012 View on HN

Just bookmark the following URL:http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22...

an0malous Dec 23, 2025 View on HN

Which ones are the best replacements for HN? Looking for recs

mcescalante Feb 4, 2015 View on HN

This should be really helpful at showing me what sites I think I should submit to HN that have already appeared as popular in the past. Really neat plugin, already enjoying looking at sites with it!