Well, there is a bit more to it... basically, the phone is really simple and everyone knows how to use it.

It allows access to the microphone without tech support issues (adjust microphone volume, give browser permissions etc).

Beyond that, listening also allows you to just call into a phone number and listen to a show - without expending your mobile data allowance.

Yes, you can listen online without signing up. It is similar to Twitch etc, but has features catering to audio streaming that you wont find on other platforms.

How? Can you share a link that we can listen to?

Matt from the Capiche team here.

You can listen to past broadcasts on any Capiche FM show page, including these that were live today: https://capiche.fm/saas/ and https://capiche.fm/loup among others.

Then, if those (or any other show) are broadcasting live right now, you'll see the live audio player instead of the past broadcast, and can tune in while they're talking.

Few people want to do a site wide search and the ones who do will press the input box on the top left. No one expects that ctrl-f will open a site wide search, everyone expects a page search.

If you still want to enable this ctrl-f to enable the site wide search, I suggest making it opt in with the checkbox. It's really obnoxious to have to disable the checkbox.

Agree that for new traffic like HN, and maybe on our essays generally, it's a bit jarring. We'll tweak these settings a bit.

This search interface has been a huge hit with our regular users, but it's harder to get feedback from fly-by traffic, so this is really helpful.

If regular users find it helpful, maybe advertise this as an opt-in feature?

To be honest, the non-standard behaviour plus strange looking popup confused me. I didn't even notice the tiny checkbox, nor that you could press CTRL+F again to get the standard search behaviour. My mistake, of course, but this speaks of poor UX in my opinion...

FWIW, we got the idea from Stripe's API docs[1]. Not that Stripe is above reproach, but they sure are good at this stuff.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api

Please don't override default keyboard shortcuts. The sitewide search is a nice tool, but if I wanted to do that I would search on your site. Novice and advanced users want CTRL+F to behave as they are expecting, not bring up an unfamiliar (and unrelated) tool. For example Google Sheets also hijacks CTRL+F but at least it replaces it with something that operates extremely similar to the original action.

Why should a browser allow its own shortcuts to be overridden at all? At the very least, some form of warning or permission-granting should be involved.

They're permitted to be overridden so that we can make web applications. It makes sense for sites like Google Docs or Sheets to override many of the defaults as, once loaded, it's replacing a desktop application and the common access patterns of it. It's less applicable (and very annoying) on sites meant for presentation or consumption of information.

But users should be able to override and specify that certain shortcuts can’t be hijacked.

That I would agree with 100%. It'd be nice to have a panel of all the shortcuts and their present meaning available, with the option to rebind them or remove site-local bindings.

The user could get the option to prevent (by default) changes to bindings, with the option to permit them on a site-by-site (or even page-by-page) basis; or to allow them by default and then deny them on a site-by-site basis.

I have this as one part of Pentadactyl. I think SurfingKeys et. al. also allow this to some extent.

The problem is that our fancy new infinite scrolling pages break ctrl-f in browsers, as they cycle content in and out based on the viewport or collapse threads by actually removing the content from the page.

The downside is that the site's built-in search feature is always worse than ctrl-f at finding something on the page. Always. It shouldn't even be hard, but they're always returning garbage like 8 year old posts on completely unrelated articles instead of the stuff on the page you're currently viewing, and advanced mode is usually broken in weird and confusing ways. It seems like web designers are optimizing for the thing you never do.

You have to look at it closely enough to discover that, which is difficult when you're actively angry at the site.

I just switched to reader mode and used Command-F there instead.

A common hotkey for a site’s search box is “/“, vim-style.

"So the fear-mongering about companies with huge losses driving the stock market is misplaced"

Um... no. It would be great if you would come back to this article in 2 years time and run the same analysis on the same companies. I suspect the statement above will be rather invalid.

because it wasn't posted by someone with huge HN karma or a YC company.

true, but its good to hear the other side's perspective - it helps you assess how you can cater to them better.

In the UK, the recruitment agents run the IT tech recruitment industry. Very rarely do companies take on the process themselves (I mean proportionately it's quite low).

In the US, it's reverse.

this is pretty neat - something that would make it better is if you could 'sort' by various properties - i.e. sort by PR.

Thanks. Will look at adding sorting to the tabs.