"The new replacement hn search (hn.algolia.com) doesn't accept basic search syntax.

Searching for "arkos" or arkos returns the same number of results with fuzzy matches. http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/arkos

I tried other standard search syntax found on Google or SOLR, but it did not work. For example, -argos, NOT argos, etc. I tried to find search query details in their documentation, but did not find any.

Please keep hnsearch.com working in the meantime, and don't shut it down on March 15th, 2014."

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7355425

Jyu's comment is also highly relevant:

"When the announcement to shut down HNSearch was made nearly 40 days ago, I thought Algolia would have ample time to catch up. It was lacking back then, and there was plenty of feedback for them to work with.

With the hard cutoff date nearing, it doesn't seem Algolia will be close to matching functionality.

A couple other features are date range search, and phrase search. Actually, just include all the SOLR query syntax: http://www.solrtutorial.com/solr-query-syntax.html"

The small piece of good news:

"hn.algolia.com is also fully opensource, so pull requests are welcome: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search"