BrunoBernardino

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing! Happy to answer any questions about it.

Thanks for calling that out, it also stood out to me as "falsy".

You're not alone!

I'm saddened by this, and will now need to plan for some migration work in a couple of production projects. Sigh.

I meant that Deno supports the full language, including enums and JSX/TSX. Node doesn't, AFAIK.

I _still_ prefer Deno over Node but I can't say that will be the reality in the near future. Once TypeScript _just works_ (instead of striping types) and the security improvements land by default, I'll probably switch back.

Alarms started ringing for me when they went for backwards support and focused heavily on that, when Bun was already on that route.

Sad but true.

Some pretty cool recommendations here!

I've personally neglected national (Portuguese) authors for about a decade now, so I've started focusing on that; I'm currently reading "Livro do Desassossego" by Fernando Pessoa.

For the few months before that, I'd focused on some classics:

- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- 1984 by George Orwell

- The Village by Ivan Bunin

- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

- Siddharta by Hermann Hesse

I read quite a bit and love it; if only I could be paid to do it at my own pace and rhythm!

If you still want a "regular search engine" without GenAI/LLM answers or features, there aren't many options out there, unfortunately.

My wife and I wanted one, so we founded one and launched it earlier this year; we're currently at 350 monthly active accounts, nearing 400.

It's paid and privacy-focused so you get assigned a random account number when you signup (there's no username or email), and you can get 2h for free by solving a proof-of-work captcha.

It's https://uruky.com if you want to give it a shot. If you want some more time to try it out, send us an email and we'll offer you a voucher for a few days.

EDIT: Seems people are downvoting this a lot and potentially interpreting it as spam? Sorry, was just trying to help people who said they wanted something like this, here.

Thanks for your support!

We have been thinking about that, especially because my wife and I do not use most of those settings; they have been built over time with many customer requesting them, and it's gone through a couple of "redesigns" to accommodate all the knobs, though the "default experience" should be more than enough for most people.

I do wonder if we need some guided "wizard" of sorts for making sure it works as people want it, or perhaps a "features" page to explain those things.

I wouldn't want to do videos, as I'm not convinced those would be effective (and they take a significant effort to make).

My wife and I continue to work on a private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1].

To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers (for defaults and per query), including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

Last month we reached 300 monthly active accounts and released an image search gallery mode, plus a simple calculator and conversion widget!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL, into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here on HN)!

Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically (no Big Tech and no GenAI/LLMs). Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications/groups/orgs. This month we're sponsoring NOYB [2]!

Feature-wise, for September the most visible things that shipped already were Tags and Scopes (top feature requests for a while). We’re also still (slowly and sustainably) increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web.

Thank you for reading this!

[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service being offered, here.

[1]: https://uruky.com

[2]: https://noyb.eu

Mine's a (big) drawer, not a box, and this summer I got rid of most of the duplicate cables (after testing them). It ended with like 50% less stuff. My wife didn't care and wasn't impressed; I think because it's a drawer in the office that only I open and look at.

I did also make it more organized per cable type (USBs, Network, Audio, etc.). It's OK. It's for me. It's OK.

The over-simplification and over-sharing natures of the current times do seem to fight against balanced positions, unfortunately.

Scoped searches are pre-filtered searches (similar to Kagi lenses, but with more customization options); tags are similar to bangs but filter/restrict to a domain instead of redirecting to it (similar to Kagi snaps).

You can also now customize the prefix character for bangs and tags (and scopes can have a tag set as well, so you can do "@s barcelona" for a "barcelona" search with a "Sports" scope, for example).

That's an interesting point of view. In your case it seems it'd still be a guarantee of being a PITA, so my statement holds. :)

It feels we're saying the same thing. "Friends and neighbours" would qualify as a community, for me, at least.

I think people have mentioned this, but I haven't seen an answer: why not ask friends and neighbours? That's what I do, and I've had success with it (though I'm more frequently the person that neighbours and friends ask for professional contacts). When no one knows of anyone, you search and call people and evaluate/assess. It's not _easy_, but it doesn't seem like such a big problem.

Am I missing something, here? Is your device something that only 100 people in the world know about? :D

Not untrue. To be clear, it's not meant to be "anti-" anything, but we prefer to "buy local" whenever possible (not _always_ and not _exclusively_), and this seemed like an option that didn't exist in a similar fashion in Europe. It also provides, to some people, certain guarantees (like GDPR). The closest was MetaGer: https://uruky.com/metager-alternative

It is ultimately a risk many are not willing to take. If you're a small business or a single individual you just can't chase offenders and have _everything_ to lose.

I looked into this a lot as my wife and I wanted to make Uruky [1] open source, but also a sustainable business.

What we decided on was that after you've been a paying customer for a year, we provide the source code licensed with BUSL into AGPLv3 after 2 years; it's a weighed risk that we can still "be killed" from, but I personally value open source too much, especially in relation to privacy-related software.

[1]: https://uruky.com (ad-free, private, and paid search engine)

I feel for their support and infra teams when this happens.

Send them a virtual hug or nice supportive message, people, it'll brighten their stressful day.

Remember they are humans, like I _hope_ you are.

Congratulations! As someone who's written (micro and short) fiction for many years, I _feel_ how hard it is to get someone to read it. Enjoy it!

https://uruky.com has over 250 monthly active accounts (that's over €1k / month revenue). No subscription, no AI products/features. Just ad-free private search that you can tweak to your liking. There's a FAQ for most questions you'll have.

Interesting! This is something a couple of customers have requested for Uruky (co-founder here), among the highlight/removal of "AI Slop" and "Malicious URLs", but I honestly never thought it would be widely wanted. I guess we're wrong and we might add that soon. Does anyone know of a good (and free as in freedom) source/list for such URLs? They didn't seem to mention any.

Anecdotal, but similar situation here for me (I don't need an inhaler, but visiting London around 2015 meant blowing my nose to black snot for a week, and then back in 2024 it was completely fine)!

I'm a happy paying customer of both, have been for a while. I use SourceHut for private repos, Codeberg for GH mirrors.

Heads-up, we just shipped a small widget for calculator, unit conversion, and top 10 currency conversion, rates checked against the European Central Bank daily. It can be enabled in the settings.

I might look into some opt-in setting that enables some regex patterns to do things like that. I'm not so sure about currency rates unless we only sync that once per day, as a scheduled job, for example. That might work.

Thanks! We did that initially (and to Google as well), and Uruky shows up there; I just mean more broadly speaking, to get the word out so people find Uruky when looking for or speaking about privacy-focused search.

Thanks, that's perfectly fair!

It's something we've felt has been best served by the OS at this point (macOS and Linux, at least), and adds significant complexity (we need to start tracking multiple currencies, their current exchange rates, parse different regex/ways of people doing that), so we've been reluctant to add it so far.

I'd be curious to understand if you bypass those OS entry points (and why) and use search for those things.

I've been working on a private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1].

To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers (for defaults and per query), including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

Last month we reached 250 monthly active accounts (we’re nearing 300 now), and launched support for XMR/Monero and BTC/Bitcoin payments via ProxyStore [2]!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL, into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!

Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications/groups. This month was Cryptomator [3]!

Feature-wise, for August the most visible things that shipped already were our image search gallery mode and our new sponsorships page. We’re currently (slowly and sustainably) increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a new search provider in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for your kindness!

[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service being offered, here.

[1]: https://uruky.com [2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky [3]: https://cryptomator.org

Building Uruky with my wife - https://uruky.com

It's private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search. To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers, including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

We've done a lot over the last few months, most recently adding Mwmbl as a search provider and supporting crypto payments via ProxyStore (anonymous vouchers). Currently we're working on sustainably growing our own index.