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snowwrestleryesterday at 2:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

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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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 3:13 PM

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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