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It's funny you say that as we just switched the Wikipedia widget over to our own internal index. We don't intend to stop there either.
That's what SlopStop is for :) developing methodologies that scale for detecting slop.

I mean it sounds like that already has a lot of overlap with our Small Web indexing efforts, so that part of our indexing efforts could be an extension of that. A lot if this is still in development though so I can't speak on specifics just yet.

> didn't realize Kagi had no aspirations to build their own general purpose index

Kagi employee here. We're actively working on building our own indexes beyond the limited ones we have now, not just a general index but also purpose built indexes for things like programming, etc.

Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:33PM (#43851449)
If you click on one though and go to swipe (unless it's in your subscriptions) it doesn't allow you to "scroll". You can watch them when necessary but it's impossible to get sucked into an infinite feed.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:21PM (#43847397)
You can disable watch history on your account, which completely disables it. No need to install any extension (which may not work on all your devices)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795204

Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#43847388)
If you turn off watch history it completely disables shorts as a whole (with no recommendations on the homepage as a side effect, but one I'm willing to live with). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795204
Re:Crystal 1.16.0 on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:00AM (#43654560)
Relevant post on why Crystal doesn't have good tooling currently

https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-lsp-for-c...

Re:Crystal 1.16.0 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @10:32PM (#43649962)
I implemented support for the `:showdoc:` directive - happy to answer any questions!
Re:Show HN: Pets for Cursor on Saturday April 05, 2025 @09:54AM (#43593562)
This is just a normal VS Code extension, AI coding not required
Re:Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:20AM (#43542819)
There've been some really good not-sequel-remake-franchise movies recently though, recently watching Companions and Mickey 17 in theatres myself.
Yes unfortunately, I've grown to be used to it over time though. Sometimes will press my fingers into random objects to make sure I keep them up.

Playing electric guitar also helps immensely due to the thinner strings and lower action.

What index? Their results are sourced from Google and Bing
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:23PM (#42795204)
I finally broke wasting hours on YouTube shorts (and youtube in general) by turning off the watch history on my account [1]. It completely removes all videos from the "homepage" (including shorts from the sidebar). There are still shorts in the subscriptions page, but I think this is an acceptable tradeoff. YouTube for me now has just become who I'm subscribed to, which is a much more pleasant experience - there's an "end" where I'm finally caught up and can move on to doing something else. This is also for my entire account, so it's not something I can just disable from my browser bar or that won't work on mobile. I don't need to remember to set it up on a new device either.

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en&co=GEN...

Re:Some Programming Language Ideas on Thursday January 09, 2025 @08:01AM (#42644895)
> What about a language where for any given bit of code, the dynamicness is only a phase of compilation?

This is (essentially) Crystal lang's type system. You end up with semantic analysis/compilation taking a significant amount of time, longer than other comparable languages, and using a lot of resources to do so.

Re:Kagi Snaps on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:59PM (#41814716)
We do currently have a field to override the domain used for snaps (the `ad` field in the bangs repository[1]) which doesn't have much validation and is useful for situations like this. It's possible we'll expose this for custom bangs in the future, but for now I can add that as a bang to the main repository, as it seems like it would be generally useful.

[1]: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs?tab=readme-ov-file#bang-...

Re:Notes on the Crystal Language on Saturday September 28, 2024 @11:58PM (#41684796)
Also for finding shards/libraries/documentation, I'd recommend checking out https://shards.info/, https://shardbox.org/, and https://crystaldoc.info/
Re:Notes on the Crystal Language on Saturday September 28, 2024 @11:48PM (#41684764)
As far as a REPL for Crystal goes, the interpreter is available via "crystal i"
Re:LSP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on Friday September 06, 2024 @07:15PM (#41470370)
I disagree. A compiler for batch building programs and a compiler for providing as much semantic information about incomplete/incorrect/constantly changing programs are completely different tasks that require completely different architectures and design considerations.
Re:LSP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:33PM (#41469884)
Your understanding of ADHD is very limited and doesn't reflect the true scope of what ADHD entails.

Also, a lot more people being diagnosed with ADHD (who were previously masking and "blending in" while secretly suffering) doesn't make the word meaningless.

Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:41PM (#40957442)
I used LineageOS on a number of devices for a number of years, and had to upgrade to a new device every year due to either performance, bugs, or official support being dropped. Can't tell you the number of various bugs I ran into that completely made it unusable, until the point I just started getting two of every device to be able to have a backup, and be able to do clean version updates.

Being able to just get one device and use it for 5+ years is such a relief, and gives me a lot less to worry about day to day. Custom roms are best left to tinkerers who are okay with their device randomly breaking with no rhyme or reason, and spending hours either trying to fix it or reflash/restore to stock and set everything back up again.

This is true for a lot of families in Somerville/Cambridge MA, one of the major reasons I live here. I can exist without a car
Re:Ice - open source bar manager for macOS on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:38AM (#40605902)
Ah yeah that's a good point. Don't know if this covers that use-case yet
Re:Ice - open source bar manager for macOS on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:16AM (#40605785)
You can always show some icons by moving them to the right of the open/close icon

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