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Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by verdverm »

serious_angel wrote: post #3

What 's worth to mention is that no sorrowful effortless awful LLM/"AI" use is seen to be used, from the first glance, thankfully... - https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust/graphs/contributor... (as of 2026-08-03) Though without actually checking out the source code, I believe it initially suggests respect, trust, and heartfelt gratitude towards the author, their experience, and the attitude the author bases on t…

I'm not sure how much we can trust software that hasn't been security audited by Ai going forward. Humans are not that good at writing code, we are going to need help that relentlessly looks for issues. We should certainly avoid being religious about such matters, it's engineering afterall.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by usernomdeguerre »

asciimoo wrote: post #4

Hi everyone, I am the original author of Searx. I'm working on a new search project, Hister with a similar motivation: reducing our dependence on external search engines while keeping searches and personal data under our control. Searx is a metasearch engine that forwards queries to other search providers. Hister takes a different approach. It builds a private full text index from content you choose, then searches th…

These are both very nice projects! Ive unfortunately learned too late with hister that the browser bookmark ingestion expects the binary to be local, instead of on a server/vm. But other than that i'm glad these two projects seem like they complement each other.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by snailmailman »

I’ve always been tempted to set up SearXNG, but all the search engines already make me do captchas and anti-bot checkboxes every few searches. Wouldn’t a meta search engine run into the same issues? Or if I had a local server scraping search results pages wouldn’t I instantly get banned from all the major searches? I guess I already feel pseudo-banned from them so maybe it’s not actually a problem.

Just a few minutes ago I dared to do a google search and Google refused to show me results because apparently my iPhone with latest iOS seems like an “automated search”.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by asciimoo »

usernomdeguerre wrote: post #12
asciimoo wrote: post #4

Hi everyone, I am the original author of Searx. I'm working on a new search project, Hister with a similar motivation: reducing our dependence on external search engines while keeping searches and personal data under our control. Searx is a metasearch engine that forwards queries to other search providers. Hister takes a different approach. It builds a private full text index from content you choose, then searches th…

These are both very nice projects! Ive unfortunately learned too late with hister that the browser bookmark ingestion expects the binary to be local, instead of on a server/vm. But other than that i'm glad these two projects seem like they complement each other.

You can configure the server URL for the extension by clicking on the cogwheel icon on the extension popup or by visiting the extension's settings page. Servers/VMs are fully supported even with user handling.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by serious_angel »

verdverm wrote: post #11
serious_angel wrote: post #3

What 's worth to mention is that no sorrowful effortless awful LLM/"AI" use is seen to be used, from the first glance, thankfully... - https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust/graphs/contributor... (as of 2026-08-03) Though without actually checking out the source code, I believe it initially suggests respect, trust, and heartfelt gratitude towards the author, their experience, and the attitude the author bases on t…

I'm not sure how much we can trust software that hasn't been security audited by Ai going forward. Humans are not that good at writing code, we are going to need help that relentlessly looks for issues. We should certainly avoid being religious about such matters, it's engineering afterall.

Thank you. Good point, but I did not mention anything about "auditing" but: "developing", "accountability", "art", and "mind".

There's no "religion" nor "subjectivity" here, and I have no issues with any developer who uses LLM for reviewing and auditing if they have no time or don't know anyone nor participate in Communities who will support a project in the subjects required.

If you still develop with your mind, accoutnability, creativity, and effort towards actually learning, getting valuable experience, and always prioritize a human, art, and effort, you should better know when use an LLM and when not, considering an undefined magnitude of marvelous knowledge, people, and experience you will definitely miss meanwhile, possibly remembering nothing and have no idea what you're doing at all alongside the non-accountable and prone to nonsense algorithm as LLM.

For example, if you do not consider the meat-ground miracles and artworks inside a yet another "free"/sold LLM dataset of now defaced/unknown artists, developers, engineers mentioned, people (like you and me), then if you prompt for a case to audit, require all sources to the evidence/suggestions found, carefully read the output, and manually approach it making notes to learn from and base your future on, it still may be considered an accountable development process.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by sandcat_ »

snailmailman wrote: post #13

I’ve always been tempted to set up SearXNG, but all the search engines already make me do captchas and anti-bot checkboxes every few searches. Wouldn’t a meta search engine run into the same issues? Or if I had a local server scraping search results pages wouldn’t I instantly get banned from all the major searches? I guess I already feel pseudo-banned from them so maybe it’s not actually a problem. Just a few minutes…

On the off-chance that you were searching in incognito (that's where I run into that the most), iOS now lets you pick a different search engine in incognito mode. Personally I use DDG there.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by usernomdeguerre »

asciimoo wrote: post #14
usernomdeguerre wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are both very nice projects! Ive unfortunately learned too late with hister that the browser bookmark ingestion expects the binary to be local, instead of on a server/vm. But other than that i'm glad these two projects seem like they complement each other.

You can configure the server URL for the extension by clicking on the cogwheel icon on the extension popup or by visiting the extension's settings page. Servers/VMs are fully supported even with user handling.

ah apologies, I thought bookmark ingestion wasn't a part of the browser extension. I'll check there.

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by asciimoo »

usernomdeguerre wrote: post #17
asciimoo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can configure the server URL for the extension by clicking on the cogwheel icon on the extension popup or by visiting the extension's settings page. Servers/VMs are fully supported even with user handling.

ah apologies, I thought bookmark ingestion wasn't a part of the browser extension. I'll check there.

Oh, you mean the bookmark import? You can specify the Hister server with the -u/--server-url flags from the command line. Check hister --help for more details

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by efficax »

snailmailman wrote: post #13

I’ve always been tempted to set up SearXNG, but all the search engines already make me do captchas and anti-bot checkboxes every few searches. Wouldn’t a meta search engine run into the same issues? Or if I had a local server scraping search results pages wouldn’t I instantly get banned from all the major searches? I guess I already feel pseudo-banned from them so maybe it’s not actually a problem. Just a few minutes…

i dunno how searxng avoids it but i've been using it regularly lately with a custom agent, and i've never had a blocked search

Re: SearXNG in Rust

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Post by patrickk »

asciimoo wrote: post #4

Hi everyone, I am the original author of Searx. I'm working on a new search project, Hister with a similar motivation: reducing our dependence on external search engines while keeping searches and personal data under our control. Searx is a metasearch engine that forwards queries to other search providers. Hister takes a different approach. It builds a private full text index from content you choose, then searches th…

Is Hister able to index Paperless-NGX documents? I’m guessing it works on an Obsidian vault since it can search markdown docs?
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