On the topic of Hacker News search… a useful trick that not enough people know is that you can take the ID of a story and use search to return all comments ordered by most recent first - great for keeping up with what’s new in a specific conversation.
Since it's mention-undocumented-endpoints day, https://news.ycombinator.com/latest?id=$ID does that, where $ID can either be a story (in which case you get the entire thread sorted reverse-chronologically) or a comment (in which case you get the comments in that subthread).
HN could really use some client software. If nothing else for choosing how to read thread replies (ie: most recent, most upvoted/popular, most downvoted, by replies from the OP, etc) + a more advanced built in search.
I have been to the settings, but it's a good example of why defaults matter and on-screen really helps people.
And extra crazy with "typo-tolerance" ON, "optimized" and "optimised" are very different results. Which is technically true, that is not a typo, that's grammatical.
Filter by author is important as people use that to search their own stuff.
Eg for this thread the most recent comments can be found here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I built an Observable notebook to save me from having to manually construct those searches here: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/hacker-news-homepage