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First off, I want to thank you and the other members of the CC Foundation, the CC data set is an incredible resource to everyone. Much of the UA data, including CCBot, is from an u…

For those not using cloudflare but who have access to web server config files and want to block AI bots, I put together a set of prebuilt configs[0] (for Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, a…

> search engine such an easy thing to produce? Yes, I run my own independent search engine[0]. > successful Now that's the challenging part, especially since Mozilla needs to fund …

Hello HN. I recently released the source code for a set of AI / LLM bot blocker web server configs that are used by my search engine (Ichido Search [0]) to block AI bots from crawl…

>The biggest issue is that an ancient version of Firefox is the only viable option for a web browser. There was some work done on porting Palemoon, Otter Browser, and QtWebEngine t…

> But I always find I have nothing to speak about. Odds are you do have something interesting to speak about. Many people are experts in very niche things and don't even realize it…

>Wish I had an invite. They have an IRC chat room where you can request an invite[0]. They typically ask if you have a personal website, git repo, interesting projects, etc when in…

Hello HN, wanted to share an experimental search engine I've been working on. In my spare time I build search engines as part of a larger search engine project named Ichido[0]. The…

Lisp has very minimal syntax and so you can build a lisp interpreter fairly easily in many languages. Most languages don't have a readily available python interpreter that you can …

Wikipedia has a page on single-user personal wikis that are great for organizing your notes[0]. If you're looking for something simple and unixy, Zim is a pretty good choice[1]. It…

Yes, it can be quite frustrating. On my search engine[0] I tag sites that use captcha services and browser checks so that the user has more transparency and can choose to avoid sit…

I work on a search engine in my spare time as a side project. What I've learned from working on a search engine is that even though the recent GPT models are quite good for general…

If you don't mind me asking, what do you use Haskell for at work? Also was the company using Haskell before, or did you bring Haskell to the job? It's always fascinating hearing st…

GNU Parallel is pretty useful. You can use it to run command line programs in parallel. For example, if you wanted to gzip compress all individual files in a directory and limit th…

Just haven't tested it out yet, but am interested in testing out some different plugins and combinations in the future. Also neovim wasn't available in one of the platforms I use, …

I use vim for C++ coding, however it is a bit difficult to set up to make it productive. I use YouCompleteMe [0] for autocompletion, Vimspector [1] with the C++ plugin for debuggin…

The Palemoon browser [0] also still uses XUL, and is in many ways a continuation of XUL browsers (was originally forked from FF 29, updated with various components from FF 50+, and…

For offline/local TTS, Coqui TTS [0] is quite good. It's essentially a continuation of Mozilla's TTS engine that Mozilla stopped working on ~2 years ago (and IIRC it's largely the …

Alpine Linux is also pretty relevant in the container space due to its small base image size. If you look at the downloads on Docker Hub [0], Alpine Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and Cent…

You can disable some of firefox's background network requests by modifying the about:config key/value pairs of your firefox profile (for example, by using a user.js file). The Arke…

I typically use mypy. It's been around for over a decade, is available in many package repos, and has pretty good integration with vim lint plugins such as ALE ( https://github.com…

> I see you offer an opensearch.xml already - if you embed it as link node with the appropriate type it will be straightforward to add it to the browser as (default) search engine …

>Is it easy for you to rely on more search index providers, what are your options? I have a few options: * Switch index providers. For example, Mojeek has an index with 6bn pages a…

EDIT: I found some of the pages with links that include UTM tracking params. Let me know if you want me to send you the pages with those links, can send them through email (my emai…