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That's awesome!

Hey. Thanks for reporting this.

Thanks rapnie. Someone else asked about that too. I'm not sure, I haven't thought about it. In your opinion, what would be the pros vs cons of having it either way?

Good suggestions. I don't think I'll be inclined to crawl or farm though. Thanks for taking the time to check the site out.

Thanks! Interesting comment.

Thanks for the feedback. Interesting thought!

You are right about info. density. I will try to make it better. Thanks for the feedback.

Thank you for the feedback. I haven't really thought about it yet. Too early to tell if this has legs.

People-powered as in user submissions, votes.

Sorry to disappoint you :)

These are a valid issues that I will certainly resolve, thanks for pointing them out.

Dmoz and other directories of old were (rigid?) pre-defined category based classifications of urls. I don't intend to replicate that.

Though you may be right about certain features being similar. For now, everything that anyone finds interesting is acceptable.

The second one is a parked domain. Diff.blog looks interesting though, thanks for sharing. I might be adding it to my daily list of sites to visit.

Just read through the features of del.icio.us on wikipedia, you are right about the overlaps.

I suspect that coupling community + search from the start, might result in different outcomes (both positive and negative) as opposed to say just community.

Take reddit for example, it's all about the community, the search is abysmal. But it's fun to imagine what if reddit was mainly about search and the community was a bonus. Surely a balance needs to be struck.

Thanks for the feedback. The forum URLs aren't mandatory. But they do add value to search results that are either pages or blogs. It is hard to illustrate that value with example search queries. I hope that changes with time and a larger, more diverse index.

Thanks for the feedback. Honestly, I'm not very sure myself and I'll have to wait and see. The votes could be gamed perhaps (multiple accounts etc.), but I could restrict voting capabilities to say, email/phone verified accounts, aged accounts or minimum karma (or a combination of all those). Like I said, we'll have to see how it evolves.

Hi HN, I’m the creator of Ninfex.

I’ve been unhappy with the inconsistent quality of web search results for quite some time now. Wanting to do something about this for myself, I started experimenting with the way I save my notes/bookmarks.

In all of my trials, two things seemed to work more than all others and proved to be useful in the long term. One: saving my good search result URLs. Two: saving links to discussions on those URLs from Reddit, HN, Lobsters, etc. because in my opinion, community feedback is a (relatively) better proxy for URL quality.

This combined with the Apple notes search feature became a very simple but effective personal index. For the main topics that interest me, I often found myself searching my index before searching the web. Once this setup started working well for me, I thought it was probably time to add a feature which lets users vote on URLs and host a version of this online, so others can both contribute to and benefit from it.

With that in mind, I started speaking to more people who were unhappy with the current state of search. Turns out the most common workaround people use is restricting results to communities (mostly reddit) either by just appending the name or using site: operator (example - bone conduction headphones reddit). This was further confirmation that the so-called “power users” had already moved on to relying on using communities as a proxy for their search results.

And so I built a basic version of Ninfex with all those features: community-curated index, votable urls, forum links and search. It’s an early stage prototype and I’m slowly populating the index with URLs from my personal wiki.

I look forward to your feedback and I’m open to all kinds of suggestions.

I'm not sure if this is 100% accurate, but in some TV shows/movies I've watched, the Japanese are portrayed to be pretty tolerant/non-judgemental of people who work in the adult entertainment world.

People often passionately discuss trivia about (adult entertainment) actors like they would about sports personalities in the west.

Their "race-based" image cropping?

https://youtu.be/Ok5sKLXqynQ?t=103

It’s a 3-day galactic space journey!

The internet has not done anything. We've always been this way.

"digging, deducing, hunting for clues about other people’s lives" is just easier to do with the internet.

If you're someone who thinks & processes information mainly in the form of Stories & Metaphors, then organization (and recall) becomes organic/natural.

Also on a side note, we must all be wary of epistemophilia!

Objects: Pencil & Paper.

I get the concept but this is probably not a great use of the word 'Consciousness'.

On the days that it does feel improved, it probably is due to exercise and consistent sleep timings.

Distraction from pointless things that constantly linger in my head and cause stress also helps.

"Blocked by Intention" is what the mystics (eastern, sufi, hindu etc.) call this.

John Cleese's book[1] and lecture[2] on creativity also have some thoughts on this.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50719532-creativity

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

Those are the right questions, that only time can answer.

Getting through lectures and audiobooks that are good but can sometimes put you to sleep would be impossible without Tetris.

Great lecture. I can't remember how many times I've recommended it to people.

I've been off all Social platforms for almost a decade now. And, no matter how much I try and convince my close friends and relatives to do the same, it doesn't work.

I realised this very late, but it is almost like asking people to give up on coffee. You could probably get them to replace it with something else but you cannot remove it from their lives.

It is all about filling the void.

Someone alert Noel Gallagher.