Ask HN: How do I search HN for ‘PHP’ whilst excluding the url?

If I search for ‘php’ it shows me every submission that has index.php etc in the url - how to avoid that?

Or alternatively could HN change to not include ‘*.php’ in urls?

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use "title" in the search:

  title: php

https://hn.algolia.com/help - Linked to at the bottom of the page, but hidden if you have dark mode on. It has some of the other options you can use.

vjandrea 4y ago ↗

`title: php` doesn't work as expected (it includes all URLs that contain both "title" and "php") and the "title:" filter is not documented in the page you linked.

tored 4y ago ↗

Another one, how do I exclude usernames from the search result? Some users has names of popular libraries.