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Hacker News Search — momentum, not just all-time points

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Search Hacker News stories, Show HN and Ask HN through the public search API. Each row carries points, comments, comments-per-point and — for stories still inside their 48-hour scoring window — points-per-hour, so a story climbing now does not lose to a 2020 post. Unofficial.

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