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iamjbn

396 karma · joined July 22, 2020

Building a human curated search engine https://aquila.network
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iamjbn··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Search engine backend specs are almost final & now open source (AquilaDB), we love to make more and more of it on the way. This is because we're still discovering a market-fit & final product shape - open source development need a finalized spec & consistency over time.
iamjbn··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Just wait until cheap to write GPT3 articles learn SEO techniques inherently and bombard the internet suppressing human writers in the spam ocean. At https://aquila.network we’re always thinking of this scenario.
iamjbn··on More content by people, for people in Search
Just wait until cheap to write GPT3 articles learn SEO techniques inherently and bombard the internet suppressing human writers in the spam ocean. At https://aquila.network we’re always thinking of this scenario.
iamjbn··on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
Try this one: https://t.me/aquilanet_bot

BotMark: A Telegram bot for quick bookmarking & powerful search (works in groups as well)

For Individuals: When you find an interesting website/article on your mobile phone, press the share button and select "botmark"—nothing more, nothing less.

For Groups: Add "botmark" to a group and keep track of all the links in your group in one place—easy peasy.

iamjbn··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
If you need a good search engine, pay for it. Business needs to make money, it’s that simple.
iamjbn··on Entropy Is Fatal
Integrate Bitcoin into your business and all the arguments in the write up just unwind.
iamjbn··on Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
It's interesting to see that you have paid for Kagi. Do you regularly pay for any other services that are privacy-focused?
iamjbn··on Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
Anonymous payment is a good idea. Do you use any other service that supports anonymous payments?
iamjbn··on Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
Adding to the list I have been building for very long -- "Becoming irrelevant, Google Search" -- here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...
iamjbn··on Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser
I might be dumb, but Why?
iamjbn··on Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components
Great work.
iamjbn··on Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
Thanks for sharing. I have been working on vector search engines (IR) for a while (Aquila Network). And I believe works such as this as well as the "differential neural computers" (couple of them from Deepmind) will be the next breakthrough in IR. I can't see the direct path yet. We're eagerly waiting to see somewhat a usable architecture yet. I believe current vector indexes will eventually get modified into hierarchical random access memories that stores compressed information in higher dimensions (static & replicated part of the distributed system). On top of this, an application specific information decoder (that's the dynamic part of the system, UX) will use the underlying information accordingly.
iamjbn··on Google Search Is Dying
Yes that might be true, I'm just collecting information.
iamjbn··on Google Search Is Dying
Thanks for this article. Adding to other "Google is dying" discussions that I have collected over time as part of my personal research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...
iamjbn··on Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
Agree, Mullvad provides really good VPN service. I faced almost zero downtimes / speed throttles. It establishes quick connection with server (maybe because it uses wireguard). Anyway, I'm a regular user and I think paying 5E worth it.
iamjbn··on We need more boutique search engines
In my opinion, Google's way of doing information organization worked really good in the past, now it's time to move on. The same system that separated signal from noise is now helping to generate too much noise while trying to fight it at the same time.
iamjbn··on Google de-indexes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice
Search should be the native feature of the Web itself (even if it's just basic), just like any other discovery protocol.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
No problem, I really appreciate it. Definitely going to work on that.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
Glad to see that many people share the same feeling that pushed us to do this in the first place - until this point, we were skeptical about whether it existed or not.

We're planning to double down on the features that supports a feedback loop from consumers to creators.

We wanted to build this product in a way to provide more value to the content creators, while benefiting content consumers. We hope with this, creators will get direct exposure to their follower's taste and expectations.

Thanks for your time, much valuable information. Have a nice day!

iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
Sorry for the late reply. We were not expecting this post to take off on HN. Got hit by unexpected traffic. The problem has been fixed with an alternative solution.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
Thanks.. Right now accuracy is validated on a test dataset that we keep on our side. If you could use the feedback url on website to share some details, that dataset can be augmented further.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
Thanks. We're kinda solving this problem for ourselves and people share the same emotions.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
It was unexpected traffic. Sign up URL is fixed right now.
iamjbn··on Show HN: Aquila.network – a search first hub for bookmarks
Yes, we originally dreamed of building a search engine that's free as in freedom. Personal search engine for bookmarks and aggregation of it seemed a good starting point.