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1. snowwr+EXa[view] [source] 2026-02-03 14:09:04
>>Imusta+(OP)
Legend has it only a dragon writer could defeat tptacek on Hacker News.

Also I find it kind of weird that the search box is case-sensitive. HN itself preserves capitalization when rendering usernames to the page, but must not be case sensitive in the backend since the username shows up in URLs.

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2. Imusta+Iab[view] [source] 2026-02-03 15:13:51
>>snowwr+EXa
Yea If I remember correctly, its the backend which is case-sensitive.

Don't worry though. I am still thinking of fixing the case-sensitive issue.

I had gone to run some errands. Right now, how I am thinking of fixing it is via thinking of using algolia api or maybe by having a singular request to news.ycombinator.com itself while still being client side but I have to see if that's possible/what's easier.

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3. Imusta+aOb[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:52:36
>>Imusta+Iab
Edit: Almost done. I just wanted to see what LLM's might think of it. So wanted to see them (go wild?) [ie. without my bias of algolia api because I was (thinking?) of other ways too also a better thing was that I was procastinating with the implementation a bit] so pasted it.

It* decided that a better response was to lowercase the username fields and then lowercase the input.

I think I had overarchitected a solution and in hindsight, I thought that the idea of lowercasing usernames would've been slow but clickhouse is a beast too.

I think I was almost thinking the same thing too. Going to update the website with case sensitivity pretty quick.

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4. Imusta+7Qb[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:59:50
>>Imusta+aOb
Update: The feature's live on the website now :D
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