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Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog on Friday May 22, 2026 @04:53PM (#48241509)
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 free.

[1] https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00stau/mode/2up

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 a lot of rubbish. Just check out Common Crawl if you want to get an idea of what it would look like.

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
Re:The Subscription Trap on Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:46PM (#38817022)
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 can watch in a month, and less than I'd pay for Netflix, and the choice is huge, even if I restrict myself to these cheap ones.
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".
Re:We are entering a new era of web search on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:55PM (#38465865)
Hi HN! Would love to get your feedback on this idea and the feature. It is super early and there are lots of issues with it, but the basic idea is there.
Re:Show HN: Unlock Your Productivity Potential on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:13PM (#38117760)
All I can see is a "continue with Google" button...

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