Hacker News Reader

I'm genuinely curious about this and would like to use Google search less than I do now...

Would you mind sharing a few tips (or pointing me in the direction of some tips) for better DDG searches?

I love the concept and philosophy of DDG but the search results I get could definitely be better!

It’s hard to describe. For example, I keep in mind that DDG does not know I’m a programmer. So, I have to phrase queries with that in mind.

DDG also has a lot of ! shortcuts, not just google.

Even has a hacker news hn! shortcut.