I use smart bookmarks most of the time, if not Duckduckgo (which has !bangs). I almost always go to Wikipedia first.
If I don't find what I want right away, I usually assume I am not trying hard enough.
If I don't find what I want right away, I usually assume I am not trying hard enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bookmark
For searching in Hacker news, I saved the URL 'https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%s' with the search key 'hn'. So when I want to search something around here, I just type
hn something
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=something