Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

Post by mharig » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #186

Euphorbium wrote: post #116

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I have moved to scinapse.io and it is great. Scholar is dead.

This is a lump of fetid garbage. I looked myself up. It listed a bunch of facts about me: # of papers and citations, fields of research, names of students and “advisers”. Except every one of these facts was hilariously wrong. I recognized the names—they were all coauthors on some paper. Obviously they use cornpooters to decide what are my relationships to these coauthors, and present the false output of their program…

Post by rationalist » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

ornornor wrote: post #168

mech422 wrote: post #130

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I wonder how many people actually use/prefer old.reddit.com ? Seems like everyone I know uses it ... Even the ones with reddit accounts.

In our tech bubble, yes. Go to /r/popular to get a sense of the average Reddit user, they don’t use old.

Post by hulitu » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

pasttense01 wrote: post #75

danwee wrote: post #10

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What do you mean by "safe"? It's a search engine, it just returns you search results. If you are worried about JS/tracking... well, Google and others are already tracking you. I use Apple devices, so Apple knows everything about me as well. If you are worried about the links you may click when yandex returns you search results, there is nothing special about yandex, same rules apply as in the wild wild web: double ch…

He may mean "is it infested with malware"? Historically there were a lot of warez or porn sites based in Russia and East European countries which were.

Post by drewbitt » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 1:11 AM UTC

satoqz wrote: post #17

I've been selfhosting SearXNG [0] for a few months and cannot complain. It's a meta search engine, i.e. collects results from a variety of underlying search engines including Google (if enabled). The main selling points for me are: - No ads - Improved Privacy - Open Source - Customisability (Plugins, Search Engines) I'm quite content with the search results even though they're not quite on par with the quality that G…

Post by kleer001 » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:27 AM UTC

deafpolygon wrote: post #160

rolenthedeep wrote: post #119

Someone should build a nerdsnipe engine. It posts your question on an appropriate forum, uses ChatGPT to formulate a bogus response, then sends you all the replies angrily correcting the first answer.

Then someone will build an anti-nerdsnipe engine using ChatGPT to angrily correct the incorrect ChatGPT answer. It's going to be one hell of a future.