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Readit NewsVapidLinus commented on Kagi search reached 20k paying members blog.kagi.com/celebrating... · Posted by u/subtlemuffins
VapidLinus commented on What If Google Wasn't the Default? matt-rickard.com/what-if-... · Posted by u/rckrd
I'm glad to hear it works well for others, and I'd like to give it another shot sometime. I use Google to find relevant sources for research, and documentation for coding projects. In my experience, Kagi just wasn't able to keep up.
There are other benefits to Kagi that I do miss though. I liked being able to permanently disclude domains I am not interested in, and to boost the relative importance of others.
When you experienced a bad result, did you do a direct comparison with the equivalent Google search?
I found myself questioning some of Kagi's search results when I first started using it and sometimes thought a search result was of poor quality, but whenever that happened, I did a direct comparison with Google whose result was equally bad.
I've now used Kagi for almost six months and have never found a search where Google provided better quality results. Except for image search.
VapidLinus commented on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month blog.kagi.com/unlimited-s... · Posted by u/darthShadow
Also, for the single-key abbrevs I'd not use any prefix at all just like I have in my browsers "g something" googles "something", it's close to never when I need to search for a single letter (and in those cases I'd just add a space before " g" to let it parse as a literal)
These ! prefixes are nice "visually", but the ergonomics haven't been thought through
Basically, customization is the solution to such design mistakes, but lack of customizatin is another design mistake :(
Kagi does have this feature but as an opt-in per bang. It's called "Allowed Quick Bangs": https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/search.html#overview
Using Kagi's FastGPT I was given a reference to a two-week-old HN comment.
(Which, it turns out, I'd authored...)
I'm not sure if that's part of the training database, or something which turned up as FastGPT conducted its own Web search. But it was surprising in at least two regards.
IIRC FastGPT uses web-search to answer questions.
Their API (for third-party devs) used to have an option for FastGPT to either allow or disallow web-search but they removed the option that disallowed it. So the API always uses web-search.
This doesn't mean that the FastGPT web client behaves the same, but I would suspect it.
Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed).
This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other initiatives. When I said the "feed broke" for the launch I meant I broke it. Software is messy especially for an old school dev. I learned in the process I am not a very good coder anymore (if I ever was one?), constantly going back and fixing stuff I previously thought was solid. Check it out in the linked repo [1].
Most importantly - I found the site replace the need for discovery for me, and getting to know various different humans and their writing felt good! A lot of unexpected stuff surfaced and the web felt close again. I think there is a glimpse of hope in the concept and I hope you see it too. And the improvements to search quality and diversity this brings are real.
You can check the list of included websites here [2]. And all the recent posts already surface in Kagi results (for relevant queries).
[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
[2] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt
Are English "Small Web" results included even if I use the "Sweden" search region?
I noticed the example result for useyourloaf wasn't included if I switched it to "Sweden" and not sure if this is just an oddity or if the entire feature is nerfed because I just leave my locale on all the time.
408 in Dashlane :)
VapidLinus commented on Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023 newgrounds.com/portal/vie... · Posted by u/rickdicker
I owe my career to Flash. I got started because my school would block game sites, and we weren't allowed to play games at lunch time. I used Flash to learn how to make games and then play them in School. If anyone said I couldn't play games, I would respond with "I'm learning to make the game", and they would give me a pass.
It's the reason I got into scripting/programming, and I'm now a web developer.
When I was a kid my mum would only let me use my PC every other weekday because she wanted me to spend less time playing games. I convinced her that on the non-game days she would let me use Game Maker on my PC instead :)
So I ended up using my PC every day of course. But I did spend a lot of time making games!
I 100% agree with your broader point!
However in support of Apple's M1/M2 macs, I dont have this problem so much!
Apart from Electron based apps...
Which is why I find the wide spread love of VS Code so befuddling!
It's fine.. but so laggy when redrawing windows, switching tabs and so on!
Maybe it doesn't seem slow when in isolation, but compared to a GUI editor like Sublime Text, it's very noticeable!
But yes - your broader point stands and drives me nuts!
Somewhat gone are the days of upgrading your computer and everything being noticable faster because the software is the same! (to be fair, the M1 upgrade from Intel was impressive)
These days to have a decent experience (as a self confessed geek with high standards) you need an M1 Mac or on Linux and Windows a modern CPU, decent GPU and as much RAM as you can fit!
I have the same feelings about VS Code. JetBrains is working on a competitor (Fleet) that is running on the JVM and renders using Skia. But everywhere I keep seeing it get flack for not being web-based...
A note about Google Authenticator. There are alternatives which imo are much better, like LastPast Authenticator or Authy. They work exactly the same but they can back up your codes securely. Big plus if you lose or change your phone.
+1 for Authy. I like it because it has cloud sync and has a desktop app available as well.
I love Blender but NLE functionality still isn't there yet. Basic things like keeping audio in sync with video breaks all the time. I had to switch to Resolve for my little projects. I will continue to evaluate Blender, but for now it still isn't ready for primetime.
For a free, lightweight video editing with a UI similar to Premiere, I recommend Olive 1.0:
https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/
It's small, opens fast, and does a good job.