I'm pretty happy for just using delicious for that. It's always nicer when sites interact well with existing sites instead of bolting on a half assed version of the same functionality. Not to say that Paul's in the business of half assing things, but rather that it's slightly orthogonal to the main value of news.yc and already exists (done well).

Arguably search is an orthogonal constraint too, but crawlers inevitably are a few days behind the curve.

Yesterday, for example, I spent an hour tracking down this comment. Eventually I had to triangulate based on the users I remembered in the thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13037

The search engine at bigheadlabs seems to have stopped crawling as well.. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4780

Just another use case to think about. You can't sustain good conversation without giving people the tools to read smart.

I noticed the indexer broke sometime last week, but I had been too busy to debug the issue. I'll try to take a look at it sometime tonight.

Thanks!

The way to do this is to go to the feature request thread and put in your point. People will vote it up there if they like it. This keeps the rest of YC news clear of feature requests and focuses more on start up stuff.

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363

I think the features request thread is overwhelming at this point. There's just too much there for new information to rise to the top.

Or let me search through your stories. Why is YC displaying only the tip of the iceberg?

I want to Search too. I think its important. Even its just google coop.

time might be the constraint ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4780

Vote up if you would like people to stop misusing karma voting for polls.

I read what you wrote and my finger was sweeping down to click your up arrow. Then time slowed and the realization of what you're doing hit.

Why do you torture me like this? It's not humane.

All part of the service, Sir.

If you use an aggregator that preserves the history of the feed, then you have access to all the past articles. A bit of a hack though and it will be nice when it's actually part of the site.

This is a useful feature, but as I understand YC already supports it.

Assuming you only upvote the stories that you actually are interested in, you should have an easy record of all of them by going to your user page.

paul, could you add some words from the story's title to the title tag for the page? So that when we bookmark, it's not always the same "YC Startup News"...

Instead, why not let people see what they (or everyone else) has voted up? If I'm looking for something I've saved, I probably voted it up...

What is wrong with just voting up stories you like? Isn't that the entire point of voting?

Because, when you want to actually use that "color-picking thingy" you saw here 5 months ago, you have no idea how to find it.

"Add to del.icio.us" link would do it for me.

Have a personal Bookmarklet to do that so every page isn't cluttered with such links. Digg this, Reddit that, etc. Bah, humbug.

I did not realize Yc was a democracy.

Sorry...double post.

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