/com/ycombinator/news/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users.html
That would be closer to Linux/macOS/Windows pathnames, which many users will have encountered before.
For new paths you could use an incremental lookup scheme to reduce data leakage via typos, and previously used prefixes could be cached for speed.
Personally I'd be fine if search entries required an explicit '?' and if search autocompletion was turned off by default.
/com/ycombinator/news/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users.html
That would be closer to Linux/macOS/Windows pathnames, which many users will have encountered before.
For new paths you could use an incremental lookup scheme to reduce data leakage via typos, and previously used prefixes could be cached for speed.
Personally I'd be fine if search entries required an explicit '?' and if search autocompletion was turned off by default.