HACKER Q&A
📣 pil0u

Could you help me find a not-so-old HN top story?


Some time in the past 60 days, I stumbled upon a top HN article which gave pieces of advice when you join a new company, which is currently my case. I thought I saved that article like hundreds before, but a few days later and after a couple hours of search in my bookmarks manager, my history and through HN Algolia search, I can't find it anymore.

I can't say much about the article for I haven't read most of it. The title was not very explicit (no "career" keyword in it), but I know that the author mentioned "the first 100 days" in the introduction as a cliché not to follow.

Does anybody have any idea of what the article I am describing is?

I have no idea where I could ask for help except for here, so if there is any more appropriate place I'll comply.

Thank you

  👤 tompark Accepted Answer ✓
Try this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

There are several that match your description on the first few pages of results.

If you change the query to "100 days" then you get more, but "90" fit your description better.

👤 waynecochran
Yes. I have had this problem several times. HN search is fairly useless in my experience. I don't even try it anymore. As an experiment, take a couple of keywords from an article today and wait a couple of days and try searching for that article again.
👤 mitchbob
Just tried a Google search with the site:news.ycombinator.com parameter and limited results to ones from the last year, no luck. Maybe this approach with another search engine and/or better keywords could work?
👤 theandrewbailey
Try looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/front (it's the past link in the heading)
👤 gabrielsroka
Maybe this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31540909
👤 desindol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29846715 ?