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Kagi Small Web
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- emehex 7mo agoStumbleUpon?
- timvdalen 7mo agoI miss StumbleUpon so much!
- rdmuser 7mo agoPersonally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net. I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes. I love that kagi is doing so much of this out in the open though. There are a surprising amount out there: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternatives-2025/ https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternativ...
- Kovah 7mo agoHi, creator of Cloudhiker here. Thanks for mentioning my site! Let me know if you have any questions, issues or ideas.
- pu_pe 7mo agoFirst thing I thought... honestly we should bring it back anyway
- kilroy123 7mo agoThere are still a lot of alternatives: http://cloudhiker.net http://cloudhiker.net https://www.offscopes.com https://www.offscopes.com Newsletter version if you prefer: https://randomdailyurls.com https://randomdailyurls.com
- modernerd 7mo agoGreat idea. Index is based on submitted sites: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.txt https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx... There is also Small Comic: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?comic https://kagi.com/smallweb/?comic https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallcomic.txt https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallcomic.... And Small YouTube: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?yt https://kagi.com/smallweb/?yt https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt
- postalcoder 7mo agoAnd Small HN: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714 (Ask HN: Share your personal website, 2414 comments)
- erremerre 7mo agoI like the idea, but would like to be able to select a language and see the small web of that language. There are more languages than English, and this tool could make them thrive. Also somehow if they are clever, they could use this for those translation system they are using, but please let us select our own language without feeding automatic translation like youtube does).
- 8organicbits 7mo agoI think the problem is that it's hard to curate feeds in a language you don't understand. I've been building an uncurated index of OPML blogrolls, with no language restriction. The OPML blogrolls are curated by their owners, so someone decided they met some inclusion criteria, but the overall list is uncurated. https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/
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- drstewart 7mo agoSome context would be helpful
- ViktorRay 7mo agoHere is a link to the folks at Kagi talking about this https://blog.kagi.com/small-web https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
- lern_too_spel 7mo agoWhen I first clicked through, I got an inane essay about how people you love are like Bitcoin. At least I knew it wasn't written by an LLM due to the misspellings and simple errors in thought, but I wondered why that article was on the front page of HN.
- sam_goody 7mo agoSo, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites. You can choose similar sites by index. But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising index, or anything more about "why these?" is not obvious to me. Can anyone explain what is special about these sites specifically, or where this project is going?
- dwedge 7mo agoThe criteria are here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#small-web https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#small-web
- apples_oranges 7mo agoA bit off topic, but I noticed I hardly ever use search anymore. It's just google.com/ai in 99% of cases. I believe in the future, search engines must go in this direction ..
- WhereIsTheTruth 7mo agoKagi wants to exist in a world that doesn't need it anymore
- freetonik 7mo agoWe can create worlds, not just inhabit ones created by corporations.
- criley2 7mo agoKagi is a for-profit corporation.
- WhereIsTheTruth 7mo agoYou remind me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678#46709862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678#46709862
- freetonik 7mo agoOn a similar note, I maintain and grow a manually curated collection of personal blogs with valid RSS feeds: https://minifeed.net/blogs https://minifeed.net/blogs The criteria is simple: human-written (as much as I can validate myself), in English (for now), with valid RSS feed, and not a micro-blog (so, more than just feed of links or short tweet-like messages). Similar to Kagi's Small Web viewer, or StumbleUpon-style viewer: you can get a random listing of blogs [1] or a random listing of posts from all blogs [2]. Feeds and posts are indexed, so full-text search works across all blogs. When possible and permitted by robots.txt, text is scraped for searching, so even if some text is omitted in the RSS feed by the author, search should work. Though I do plan to implement a similar "view one random post at source" kind of view, soon. UPD: Feel free to submit a blog, including your own! [3] [1] https://minifeed.net/blogs/by/random https://minifeed.net/blogs/by/random [2] https://minifeed.net/global/random https://minifeed.net/global/random [3] https://minifeed.net/suggest https://minifeed.net/suggest
- Kye 7mo agoThe implicit criteria (tech/business and adjacent) is an issue with all these lists for me. But it's also a personal list, which is great. I just wish literally anyone in these had a personal interest on anything else reflected in their lists because I keep checking them and being disappointed. A topic that's come up before on here with others doing the complaining about a list I liked for this reason but wasn't top-loaded with tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015676
- Cider9986 7mo agohttps://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ is interesting. I am not sure if it updates, or if it just has old websites.
- zby 7mo agoI wish someone curated a list of sites that are llm written - but are not spam. Just to compare :)
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- jwelten 7mo agoInteresting, really like the idea. Maybe in the future a possibility to use it in multiple languages
- unbindableisaac 7mo agoBit bummed. The first random page I landed on was a really interesting article for me. The custom cursor (well why not) had me struggling to following a link, and instinctively I refreshed the page. I ended up somewhere else in the haystack with ostensibly no way back to that particular article. Perhaps I'm yelling into the void here, but what would be great is when first landing at kagi.com/smallweb, the url query parameter would be somehow set, as it is when "Next Post" is clicked.
- bjord 7mo agodoesn't solve the root problem, but maybe try searching for the topic in kagi with the small web lens?
- unbindableisaac 7mo agoI think it would, so long as the redirected URL with the search parameter was diarized into browser history. It would however introduce a behavior change that may be undesired (users need to know to press "Next Post" instead of refreshing). In any case, my Kagi search for the article containing the memorable phrase "rare as rocking-horse s*t" came up empty. Perhaps it's not yet been indexed.
- arscan 7mo agoI do love the concept, but a little part of me died each time I came across an article with a very strong AI voice. That just feels antithetical to the ‘small web’ ethos because it obscures the ‘neighbor’ behind it.
- hristian 7mo ago[dead]
- windowliker 7mo agoWelcome to 2026 when the next door neighbour is an AI datacentre using up all your groundwater.
- HelloUsername 7mo agoRelated recent blog post "Small Web Just Got Bigger" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366230 13-march-2026 Previous post 7-sept-2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281 185 comments. And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476015 23-feb-2023 36 comments
- yashasolutions 7mo agoStumbleUpon is that you? Jokes aside, it's really nice and I can totally see becoming addictive. Kudos to Kagi team for an other user oriented product. (as a side note, I am using Kagi daily and i didn't know about this tool)
- coopreme 7mo agoSU was amazing. Stumbling upon Ze Frank? It was internet gold!
- dethos 7mo agoYes, SU was fascinating at the time. I kind of like this style of exploring the web; it gets a bit addictive, you spend hours on it but end up finding interesting content and other stuff that you wouldn't otherwise.
- beAbU 7mo agoMan, I wasted days on SU. It was incredibly addictive in a way that did not feel unhealthy.
- chneu 7mo agoIm surprised nobody has mentioned cloudhiker which is made to be like stumbleupon.
- ArtificeAccount 7mo agoI've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for. That was back in like 2010. To me that's the old, and useful, search engine that I want.
- Terretta 7mo agoIn comparisons (often shared here) among SERPs, kagi has tended to have fewer blatant results campers crowding out original authoritative sources. And yes, Google's founders were right that web ads would kill that experience you want.
- windowliker 7mo agoFunny to look back and recall how useful web search actually was at one point. Ahh the good old days.
- ArtificeAccount 7mo agoThe enshittification of everything has really put a damper on the technological optimism that seemed to be the norm back then.
- rusty-peanuts 7mo ago[dead]
- windowliker 7mo agoWe had the tech we were always promised and then it got taken away, for... reasons.
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- input_sh 7mo agoCould've at least checked if the website even allows embedding before embedding it, I found two by randomly clicking around that don't.
- codethief 7mo agoYeah, many links in the embedded blog posts don't work either, presumably because the target website doesn't allow embedding. On mobile I always have to open them in a new tab for them to work.
- chneu 7mo agoSome browsers actually block embedded pages. Lots of mozilla based browsers will.
- input_sh 7mo agoNo, it's the website owners setting a specific header (X-Frame-Options to SAMEORIGIN), as it prevents someone else from embedding your website and phishing for user credentials. No browser prevents that by default, but this tip is found in pretty much every "best practices" hosting tutorial, so it's very common to stumble upon that browser error in the wild.
- azangru 7mo agoThe first random page it returned to me was this — https://gaultier.github.io/blog/how_to_make_your_own_static_site_generator.html https://gaultier.github.io/blog/how_to_make_your_own_static_... — which was about building one's own static site generator, which I really liked. I did not realise when I closed that page how hard it would be to find it again, because, of course every new visit to Kagi returns a different page :-)
- dark-star 7mo agoyeah, same happened to me, the first site I was sent to was a list of people sending in random "sunday thoughts" (or whatever it was called) on (actual physical) postcards which then got scanned and posted. There were some good things in there. Now I can't find that site again because I didn't realize it was randomized...
- mastermage 7mo agodo you not have a browser history?
- 7777777phil 7mo agoI run a Hugo blog and I get more interesting referral traffic from Kagi's small web index than from Google at this point. 5,000 curated sites is small enough to be useful most "indie web" directories are graveyards unfortunately..
- myth_drannon 7mo agoToo many AI or relegion related sites.
- bryanhogan 7mo agoTried it myself, first three I got were also about AI. Curious if there are any statistics on which topics people are writing about.
- freediver 7mo agoClick the Topics button.
- myth_drannon 7mo agoHow did I miss topics button!? It makes the whole experience absolutely different.
- titzer 7mo agoHow do we keep getting surprised by enshittification!? The worst case scenario is that AI runs everything, we have no skills, and are completely dependent on it...and it shows us crummy commercials and subtly steers us to paid placement with no recourse whatsoever. I hate this possible future, but this is where the money will lead.
- iAMkenough 7mo agoAs Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said today: > "It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."
- rusakov-field 7mo agoMy blog was getting traffic from that domain! So that is what that is.
- steve_adams_86 7mo agoSame. I got an influx of bots from Singapore (around 50 visits per day) and in figuring out what's up with traffic, I noticed kagi as a reference for the first time. Weird times. People are training their LLMs on my content yet people are still interested in technical content written by a human being. So I guess you just keep writing, right? I find it disheartening to know I'm training LLMs but I think I'm more encouraged knowing there are still humans reading it.
- rusakov-field 7mo agoMy attitude with writing has been : "Write to the void". There is nothing else to do.
- ChrisGammell 7mo agoYep, insert the "always has been" meme. I learned from my early blogging that finding something that was popular just ended up having me chase that high again, instead of the things I wanted to be writing. True of every platform before and since.
- lelanthran 7mo agoThis is fantastic - how long do I have to press F5 before my blog shows up? :-)
- myth_drannon 7mo agoCan we just agree that the internet is broken and no amount of boutique search solutions will save it? Kagi, DDG, Google they are all trying to do a search in a pile of steaming sh*, in a hope of finding that shining diamond. Quite possible that people will come up with a solution eventually. Like Samizdat was a solution to censorship and a broken publishing system in USSR.
- Aachen 7mo agoDoes it work for you guys to go to about and then click on the "list" link? For me it says I'm blocked due to hitting a "secondary" rate limit (don't understand what that means). I don't think I've opened a page on github yet today so clearly it's a lie. Is it the referer that triggers this? In general, freeloading the "small web" on a Microsoft service is kind of ironic. Being blocked by algorithms that try to detect if you're really human is precisely one of the things one would hope to get away from by using small, personal websites
- skydhash 7mo agoIf you’re not signed into GitHub, it always throws those errors page (maybe due to scrapping being done with residential IP addresses).
- Aachen 7mo agoCool, so much for the small web No scrapers running on my IP address btw, at least not since it was assigned to me ~10 hours ago (I'm in one of those countries where ISPs seem to have agreed amongst each other that IP addresses must change daily so you can't reliably host things)
- lich_king 7mo agoI think it shows the limits of hand curation. It's a tiny, human-reviewed slice of the "small web", only allowing a subset of blogs... but if you select the "programming" category and click around for a short while, you get a fair amount of obvious AI slop. I don't think it's Kagi's fault, but I guess it's depressing in a way. A lot of "small web" bloggers dream of being a part of the "big web", and when they get a cheat button, they have no second thoughts about mashing it.
- hamdingers 7mo agoI'm a Kagi search/assistant user and advocate but the "small web" product is a frustrating misnomer. To me the small web is any little website that was created to be interesting rather than to sell me something. That includes stuff like neocities, "shrine" type sites, single purpose sites, fandom portals, web experiments, etc. Unfortunately Kagi's definition of "small web" is: blog or webcomic. You must have an RSS feed and it must have recent posts. That rules out so much interesting stuff I don't understand the point.
- idop 7mo agoNot only that, I just clicked "Next Post" more than a hundred times, and over 90% of posts I got were about LLMs and coding agents.
- abnercoimbre 7mo agoThis is a fairly recent phenomenon: I'm a longtime Small Web user and even I struggle with this massive influx of AI posts. I'm hopeful it will be addressed.
- jeffalyanak 7mo agoI could definitely see value in filters for "has RSS" and "has recent posts"—maybe even as the default view—but I absolutely agree that this is much less interesting to me without the wider world of interesting, small sites.
- wiether 7mo agoSame feeling here Heavy Kagi user and the idea behind small web was appealing; but how its implemented don't click with me Their rules excludes an absolute gem like https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ which is, to me, the essence of what we could call the "small web". Each times the topic pops up, I try a few random ones and never found anything interesting.
- j1elo 7mo agoWell, thanks. That small web just taught me in a very concise way a thing or two about bicicle braking technique!
- marcd35 7mo agoI'm one of the contributors for the Obsidian RSS reader (https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard) and one of my first contributions to the project was adding in the Kagi RSS feed to the discover page! It refreshes every 5 hours and shows you the most recent blogs published on Kagi. Check it out!
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- papakatsu 7mo agoI thought this was going to be about payment processing for shareware applications.
- Venn1 7mo agoAh, this might explain the traffic from Kagi a week or so ago. I've been scratching my head over that one. I just checked, and my wee little blog is listed in smallweb.txt. Neat! Curious what goes on behind the Next Post and Show Similar buttons.
- freediver 7mo agoNext post is random. Show similar uses semantic search to find most similar indexed post. You also get the same effect if you 'like' a post.
- leontloveless 7mo ago[dead]
- the_axiom 7mo agoI have the impression that Kagi is trending here every month
- barbazoo 7mo agoLove Kagi and most things they do, don't get me wrong, but this is a bit ironic: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?url=https://pliutau.com/reading-list/ https://kagi.com/smallweb/?url=https://pliutau.com/reading-l... > This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.
- freediver 7mo agoIt would've been ironic if we had infinite resources, but this entire project is built and maintained by one person - me. If this is the only thing you found wrong with it - I'll pat myself on the back :) ps. If you don't want to see this blog again in Small Web, jsut submit a PR to remove it - index of sites is a crowd-sourced effort. Cheers
- starkparker 7mo agoFirst impressions: My first five pages were stallman.org, a paywalled cybersec newsletter, a German-language blog, an AI-generated blog post ad for a cattle fencing service, and a blog republishing a Disney Parks press release
- __erik 7mo agoThis is cool, it reminds me of stumbleupon from back in the day
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- hitekker 7mo agoKagi lost focus. I pay for their search and I’m getting close to giving up. I’ve noticed several times that Google Search gets more relevant results for the same query. On top of having a better search AI. Whimsical detours like this feels like they’re operating aa early Google minus the killer product.
- Computer0 7mo agoThe commits in their repo for this project goes back multiple years. I don't believe it is a whimsical detour.
- sointeresting 7mo agoI tried kagi a year or so ago and and instantly cancelled my sub and asked for a refund, which they granted. The results for every search was jammed with AI and "listicles" and all this shit that made the results essentially impossible to parse for me, and I'm supposed to pay for the pleasure. Hard pass.
- susam 7mo agoThis thread inspired me to build a decentralised tool to explore the small web: https://susam.net/wander/ https://susam.net/wander/ If you like it and if you have a website, please join the network. It only takes uploading two files to your web server to set it up. In fact, you can host it on GitHub Pages or Codeberg Pages too. And you can link to any small website (not just blogs). Details about how it works and how to set it up available here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme
- bubblerme 7mo agoKagi betting on the small web is a smart differentiation play. Google has essentially optimized for large, authoritative domains — which means personal blogs, niche forums, and indie projects get buried even when they have the most relevant content for specific queries. The small web is where genuine expertise lives. When I'm looking for a real opinion on a tool or a deep technical explanation, I almost never find it on the first page of Google anymore. It's all SEO-optimized content farm articles or AI-generated summaries. The actual expert wrote a blog post that's sitting on page 5. The challenge is curation at scale. Manually identifying quality small web content works when the corpus is small, but maintaining quality as it grows requires either very good automated signals or a community-driven approach. Curious how Kagi balances this.
- MetroWind 7mo agoI don't know... It doesn't look very "small" to me. I "next post"ed a few, and most of them ended up being just some typical tech bro blog talking about boring tech. But I did eventually stumble upon a post about two corgis, and another about medieval Europe...thingy. So it's not all bad.
- ThomIves 7mo agoThe insight that multi-agent coordination is fundamentally a type-checking problem — catch structural failures before spending the compute — is the most practical framing I've seen for this space. The adversarial composition example where information partitioning emerges from types rather than instructions is especially elegant. Looking forward to the follow-up on memory architecture.
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