[pvg]

You should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[asxd]

I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.

[zandorg]

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

[xeeeeeeeeeeenu]

Sorting by popularity has been broken for years because comment scores aren't public any more.