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> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/n
by harryvederci 5y ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- baggachipz 5y agoYou're right, that was dickish. I could have asked what's different without the snark.
- alangibson 5y agoThe purpose of this project is to see if it's possible to build a highly targeted, privacy respecting, search engine that people will pay for. I've given myself a year to build the index and tune for relevance. If at the end of that year it's not a path to sustainability, I'll shut it down secure in the knowledge that, despite what they say, people really won't pay for search. If it is, then I'll start scaling into other STEM subjects. So the difference is, it has the things folks on HN say they want: - search expressions - REST api - no tracking - users are buyers, not products
- all2 5y agoWould you consider allowing users to host instances/nodes of the engine in return for free or reduced monthly rates? I wouldn't mind making that kind of trade.
- rglullis 5y agoHow would one go about ensuring these nodes are not malicious?
- rmbyrro 5y agoMake them run in a blockchain! ;D
- genewitch 5y agojust query two at random, if they don't match, hit an API endpoint and something like `diff` output? if the API endpoint with the two 'nodes' gets enough complaints about a node(s) then blacklist it from the round robin/haproxy/whatever.
- rglullis 5y ago> if the API endpoint with the two 'nodes' gets enough complaints about a node(s) then blacklist it Great, now you just found a way for malicious actors to create reputation bombs, remove honest nodes from the pool and make it even easier for them to spam/poison the results.