hipcat

I appreciate your work on this (in the past I've just used google with the site option). As a nitpick, one thing I'd do is remove the fluff from the bottom of the page and give an indicator that the large box is for a search term (as opposed to several lines of text which is what it looks like). In fact, a normal sized box would work just fine.

I realize that there is a line that instructs you to enter text in the box, but to me in got lost in the noise of the page (another reason for getting rid of the extra details at the bottom). On the results page, it'd be nice if you showed the results foremost and the related topics as a sidebar. I want my results, and only if I don't find what I'm looking for do I want to know the code's opinion of where I should try to go next.

Anyways, like I said those are just nitpicks. Nice job.

As another commenter noted, the news is simply that the phone is available (in stock) once again. I've been waiting for several weeks, and thought others may have been waiting as well. They tend to sell out so quickly that I thought posting would let my friends at hacker news have a chance to purchase one if they wish. While it's not necessarily representative of the majority of the hardware in people's hands, there is value to having a test phone that supports the latest version of the OS.

Of course, the interesting part of the story (at least to me) is that the phone seems to be much more popular in death than it ever was in life. I've noticed the number of accessories seems to be increasing rather than disappearing as you'd expect for a $500+ unsubsidized phone, and that google can't seem to keep them in stock (although this may just be due to the amount of orders they're making now vs the past).