BrunoBernardino

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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   Thank you so much for the mention! Uruky co-founder, here. Let me know if there's some specific feature you'd like to see added (email or a reply here is fine), so we can evaluate!
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   "No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements(journal.james-zhan.com)

   3 points by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago|1 comments
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   That's a great question. Hopefully given you can make a purchase and start using an account without ever providing any personal information, it should help. My wife has no public information, and as for me, hopefully seeing some of my
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   AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth(schneier.com)

   6 points by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago|0 comments
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   Most of the cost is storage (database, indexes) and memory (RAM, search), and most of the risk is crawlers (they fail, they're reported as abuse, etc.). You can look for Common Crawl or Open Web Index for dataset sizes and how many URL
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   Common Crawl is a really cool project! We're looking to implement a similar EU-based version: https://openwebindex.eu
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   Thanks, and great question! I'm not sure about the whole EU, but in Portugal (where our company's based, and where we've talked with a couple of lawyers and accountants about it), you can hold, buy/sell and trade Monero,
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   Thanks, please reach out via email if you run into any trouble or have any questions/suggestions!
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   by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

   That's a good point. Mainly because of the personal search customization features, and the fact it's paid search. Those seem differentiating enough from Google and close enough to Kagi to use them as a reference instead. They&#x27
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Thank you for your comments! We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowl
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Thanks! I'll experiment with that next month, then!
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    This is my bad. We've heard a few people complain that the word "personalization" has been adopted by the ad industry and it makes people shiver when reading it. In our case it means "personal search customization",
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Thanks! Do you mean on this HN thread? On the website we do this: > PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL > Search without ads or tracking > Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem. > EU-based. No surv
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Not public-facing search engines, but internal ones and privacy-focused software, yes. Thanks!
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Thanks! We offer many search providers, so we're not tied to any specific style of results, and our customers tend to really appreciate that! Also, we do offer an API (check the FAQ), no need for different subscription tiers. Keeping i
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Thanks! We've been working on it since late last year, only really announced it here in February or March, I think (I'd have to check). Cold emailing some privacy-minded folks and posting here and in other privacy-focused forums l
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    Yes, why would you think otherwise?
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    I like the Uruky search engine(akselmo.dev)

    2 points by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago|3 comments
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    by BrunoBernardino 3mo ago

    My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU. Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStor
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    Hister is a great idea and the creator is a really nice person, please give it an honest look and consider supporting them (I'm Uruky's co-founder and we sponsored them)!
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    Ask HN: Threat Models for Search Engines(uruky.com)

    4 points by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago|1 comments
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    We just published this page with some information about threat models with search engines and Uruky, to try and inform more people. If you have some comments/suggestions or notice something is wrong/incomplete, I'd appreciate
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    The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool(ohadravid.github.io)

    70 points by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago|78 comments
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    This is _very_ interesting, thanks for building and sharing it, Colin! I've got a couple of decent-sized products running on Deno (and I've been a fan since it came out, not so much since 1.0 and 2.0, but still feel it's bett
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    Why I Use Uruky, a Private Search Engine(theprivacydad.com)

    2 points by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago|0 comments
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    Hister is a really cool and novel idea. Keep up the good work!
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    Thanks for commenting! We do not "forbid" AI or are "anti-AI". You can use agents within the rate limits (which are public in the FAQ). We don't plan to build AI tools into the search (specifically Gen AI/LLMs)
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    We're not just fighting AI(sayyesdono.pagecord.com)

    2 points by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago|0 comments
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    Testing Uruky to Replace Kagi(rewiring.bearblog.dev)

    3 points by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago|0 comments
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    by BrunoBernardino 4mo ago

    Oh, wow, thanks for sharing, I wasn’t aware of that post! We’ve tried to reach out to European Alternetives before, but never got a reply, unfortunately.