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Re: Kagi News

#341

lol I added 'trump', 'republican', and 'democrat' as custom filter keywords and now it's showing zero stories in the USA category. So apparently, that category is a stand in for politics? Although I have the Thai category enabled (since I live there) and that's all run of the mill national (non political) news. Nice release nonetheless!

I checked a few news websites and the only one I could find that did a halfway decent job of this was USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/

Re: Kagi News

#342
The (apparently) unchangeable categories of “US” and “World” is extremely irritating to me. May I suggest you at least categorise by continent?

Re: Kagi News

#343

When I filter on Kirk, I get No Results Found - seems legit.

If you read the post, you would learn that it only reports on news from the same day.

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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#344
Not the news I need. I need local news. I care about my local mayer race. I care what my school board does. I care about the local art studio events. unless you are my neighbor you don't care about my community (you have your own).

If you live in big city beware that your newspaper probably is lacking your neighborhood coverage which is what you need.

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#345
I find Kagi somewhat perplexing with this release. On one hand, the search engine is clearly good at surfacing content that isn't AI slop, and it has initiatives like the "small web" that endeavor to surface smaller websites. Instead of doing something similar, it's just an AI summary engine. I find it not only contradictory of many of their other efforts, but also unasked for. I would love to see something similar to "small web" for news.

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#346
post #3

> One daily update: We publish once per day around noon UTC, creating a natural endpoint to news consumption. This is a deliberate design choice that turns news from an endless habit into a contained ritual. Could you guys maybe print it on paper and send it to my physical mailbox, so I can do this ritual with breakfast? :-)

Why not release an editorial format designed to be printed, and you could just print it yourself?

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#347

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Yes, that's what it is. Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist, so you may be fundamentally at odds with them here... If it lessens the issue for you, the sources of each item are cited properly in every example I tried, so maybe you could treat it as a fancy link aggregator

> Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist Kagi founder here. I am personally not an LLM-optimist. The thing is that I do not think LLMs will bring us to "Star Trek" level of useful computers (which I see humans eventually getting to) due to LLM's fundamentally broken auto-regressive nature. A different approach will be needed. Slight nuance but an important one. Kagi as a brand is building tools in service of its users, no p…

Fwiw, I love your approach to AI. It's been very useful to me. Quick answers especially has been amazingly accurate and I've used it hundreds of times, if not thousands, and routinely check the links it gives

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#348

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Google thinks the same of me and I don't even edit the URL. I can have a session working just fine one night and come back the next day, open a new tab to search for something, and get captcha'd to hell. I'm fairly sure they just mess with Firefox on purpose. I won't install Brave, Chrome, or Edge out of principle either. Safari works fine, but I don't like it.

Google will captcha me on the second or third search if I try to use the "site":" advanced keyword to narrow down search I'm sorry I know how to use your tool?? ? Didn't you put these keywords in to be used?

Google has gotten amazingly hostile toward power users. I don't even try to use it anymore. It almost feels like they actively hate people that learned how to use their tools

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#349

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Sure you do, to understand actual patterns in actions of members of the party. And ignoring that, it’s general context. Part of the job of a journalist.

> to understand actual patterns in actions of members of the party. Or to construct patterns that don't reflect reality. Should we also list their ages, ethnicity, religious affiliation(s) in each article mentioning a Congressperson and construct those patterns as well? Sorry, I'd like to think on my own.

When every vote on a bill lands along party lines you might want to begin to suspect that party affiliation matters quite a bit.

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#350
post #232

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100% agree. Free services have their place, but I'd love to have more paid service alternatives for derives that only exist as "free". That said, all my friends think I'm insane and poke fun at me for paying for search, so I imagine we're a small minority. People just hate paying for software in general in my experience, especially a subscription. I have multiple good friends who refuse to pay 99 cents a month to get…

I think the whole "if it's free, you're the product" nugget of information has not been broadly understood by folks, or if it has, maybe folks don't care as much about their data. I do live these days with the understanding that pretty much all of my personal info is out there one way or another, a social security number is about as private as a phone number these days.

I think people genuinely don't realize how invasive the data gathered is. If they knew what engineers and admins can see, they'd be floored
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