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Re: Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

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I think you're each setting the other off and being a bit overreactive to each other's comments, and I think there may be a misunderstanding of the other's intent. We still need to make an effort to observe the guidelines even if a reply to us comment seems hostile. Sometimes it's best to just to stop.

Indeed. Actually I did not try to attack. My intention was showing mild irony to something I perceived as an attack. Those nuances easily get lost in text, I know, but that my post got flagged and his initial one did not, I really did not liked and that angered me a bit. But I can live with that, without making a drama out of it. Thanks for trying to mediate.

Thanks for being good about it. I've turned off the flags on that comment.

Re: Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

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There's a difference between feeding massive amounts of copyrighted material to a training process that blends them thoroughly and irreversibly, and doing all that in-house, vs. offering people a service that indexes (and possibly partially rehosts) that material, enabling and encouraging users to engage directly in pirating concrete copyrighted works.

There's this famous phrase in Russian that was born out of a short interview with a woman, a strong Putin supporter, that's often been used as a sarcastic remark for pointing out someone's double standards and/or hypocrisy. It can be roughly translated to "you don't understand, it's a completely different situation". That's what's constantly on my mind when I'm reading discussions like this one. Everybody and their d…

>The same data that average American housewives were sued over for millions of dollars of "damages"? The same data that often gets random German plumbers or steelworkers to pay thousands of euros of "fines" to the copyright mafia so they won't get sued and have their lives ruined?

Honestly curious. Could you share any examples of these cases?

Re: Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

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As far as I know, no one has fully implemented full-text search directly over Anna's Archive. Technically it’s feasible with tools like Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, or Lucene, but the main challenges are: Converting all documents (PDFs, EPUBs, etc.) to clean plaintext. Indexing at scale efficiently. Managing potential legal issues. Z-Library does something similar, but it’s smaller in scope and doesn't integrate AA’s…

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Re: Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

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The indexing costs would be nuts - Anna's Archive is like 200TB+ and growing fast. Even with decent search infra you're looking at serious compute/storage costs. Plus there's the obvious legal stuff that would make this a no-go for most companies with anything to lose. The decentralized thing they're doing probably makes way more sense.

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