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0 pointspvg4y ago0 comments

You should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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zandorg4y ago· 1 in thread

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu4y ago

Sorting by popularity has been broken for years because comment scores aren't public any more.

asxd4y ago

I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.

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