[stametseater]

One of the reasons I keep coming back to HN is because the comment search actually works, so it's easy to figure out what sort of things, if anything, has been said here about some topic. It's easy to search a project's name and find that one post from a guy 10 years ago who mentioned it, and also mentioned a better alternative.

With reddit it's not worth trying, even with Google and "site:reddit.com" searches. Reddit's SNR is awful, so you have to wade through dozens if not hundreds of posts of people mentioning the thing but saying nothing worthwhile. Pages of people asking questions relevant to your query, but not receiving any useful response. HN has some people asking questions, but most posts are about people volunteering information. On reddit, it seems like most posts are people asking questions into the void and rarely receiving an answer, and those kind of search results just aren't useful.