SearchYC.com

Does anyone know of a cheap web based source code escrow service? We currently pay an exorbitant amount and I seem to remember a startup being mentioned here that does exactly this, but no amount of searchyc'ing has helped.

I just saw this comment by pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329415

I can understand pg's point of view on this. On the other hand though, I honestly wasn't aware of searchyc until I saw that thread. It seems to me that if pg won't make an official place to post links to things like that, there should be an unofficial place.

On the other hand, I can't really think of much else to put there other than a couple of iPhone apps and the link to searchyc. So is there enough content out there to justify a wiki?

I've always wanted to read HN commentary of a page within the page itself, instead of flipping back and forth to HN.

So I wrote this greasemonkey script that embeds HN comments on top of any HN-submitted page.

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

I'd like to thank Michael Cheng (chengmi) for extending the searchYC API.

Edit: For the time being, it won't work on the newest submitted posts. searchYC should cache the page about an hour after submission. In the future I'll parse the HN newest page as well.

Which companies have you a) heard of and b) know basically what they do?

I got to wondering how much brand awareness occurs on HN with companies/people that post here. To see posts about them on HN, use searchyc.com, which is what I used to generate this list. Note: I reposted this poll with a shorter list.

I'm positive there is a simple answer to this, I just haven't discovered it yet.

searchyc.com searches within HN posts, but doesn't appear to allow you to search based on what the HN post is referring to.

Thanks.

Hello Paul,

What is the deal with search on HN?

There isn't a week or some new HN member posts a question about how to search HN, most of the time they are either confused about why there is no search on the site, in other cases they are trying to find some article and can't locate it.

The various fixes (google using the site: prefix and pointers to searchyc.com) have been repeated so often that I suspect some users have programmed function keys to save on the typing :)

I see that news.ycombinator.com promotes 'webmynd' as a search facility, however when compared to either google or searchyc it comes up short.

I appreciate you sticking up for the companies that YC funds, and of course this is your site and you can do with it as you please but what confuses me is that there seems to be no net benefit to webmynd from being listed on YC, whereas there is a significant loss for those that use news.ycombinator and that don't have an easy way to search the site. It makes news.ycombinator look less professional and it confuses people with some regularity.

Why won't you add a box that submits a google site search or a search on searchyc to HN?

Either that or ask the webmynd guys to get their act together and create something that is on par with searchyc, they seem to be able to get it to work, and for free and 'unfunded' no less.

If anything you could throw them a bone and show some appreciation for the work they've done supplying a missing feature at essentially no cost to HN. Or is there bad blood between news.ycombinator and searchyc that I'm not aware of?

Fred has indicated many times that he spoke to you about this, but so far I can't really make soup out of your position, after all, I take it that you want HN to be the best possible site for your users.

I've recently released a new version of HN Comment Embed, a greasemonkey script that embeds HN discussions into the webpage being discussed.

You simply browse to a posted page, and the HN panel pops up on the side.

This version relies on searchYC as its main source, but also parses HN's newest posts page to attain full coverage.

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

Somebody a while back submitted a link to a article describing their deployment process which I think used a irc bot interface (it was some sort of chat). I think they also said something about not liking the word "staging" for some reason. Anyone know what the link is? My google-fu and searchyc-fu is failing me.

Despite 33.8% of HN following @fredwilson http://searchyc.com/fred+wilson shows up only 302 results, in contrast with searching for "invest" - 24919 and "venture capital" - 1164, "angel" - 3856 or "37 Signals" - 2763.

Does hackers really get their most followed VC? If not, why?

Links http://jmillerinc.com/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1555866

There was a site that let you create a step by step guide for your users. It would automatically attach to your links and buttons and tell users to click there.

It was posted on here around a week ago.

I want to use it for a project and can't find it or remember the name. I've tried searchyc, looked in google reader, but can't find it.

Anyone remember what it was called?

Edit: let me try to explain the site a bit better. What it does is let you add hover text next to a link that says "click me to get started"