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Our lecturer for condensed matter physics based a large part of the course on an (excellent) book that was out of print [1]. He kindly had it photocopied and bound for us all for f…

Yes, we veto sites to prevent spam. I'm not sure you would like the results of what you suggest - if you are really going to crawl everything indiscriminately, you will end up with…

Yeah the ranking algorithm is just wrong right now. I'm working on it.

The curated items will stay the same, but we can't expect all queries to be curated.

I took the page down as it was attracting the wrong sort of attention. As some commenters surmised, the goal was to promote the search engine, but it wasn't working out that way...…

Spot on

This is actually a lot harder to do than you might imagine, we need to scan the whole index and use a hyperloglog (handily implemented for us in Redis) to count the URLs.

Here's an alternative for streaming services that I've been trying out: buy second hand DVDs, rip them, then serve them with Plex. You can get 5 DVDs for £10 which is more than I c…

I can't comment on the question as I'm not a designer and not in Germany, but there's a typo on the GitHub page: "tought" -> "thought".