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YaCy mentions (71)

• New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

  YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• New 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism

  It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines. In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Could we just re-invent original Google?

  Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

  > Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... Here you go: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine

  I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Pi-hole mentions (1185)

• Ask HN: For what purposes do you use a Raspberry Pi?

  Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide blocking ads and tracking

  I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• YouTube Says It Has More Than 100M Premium and Music Subscribers

  Can the piHole help us eliminate bandwidth wasting ads on TV's? https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV

  It definitely IS an option, but at the network level. https://pi-hole.net/ It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• In 2024, please switch to Firefox

  I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background. Adguard [1] is a decent free option. I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network. [0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html [1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html [2] https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago