Working full time on an open source internet search engine. Acting librarian of the weird corners of the web.
Joined October 2021
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Today is the day. I left the office for the last time an hour ago. Time sheets filed, corporate laptop handed in, goodbyes said.
I'm now working full time on Marginalia Search.
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Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy retweeted
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Take me down to the parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly.
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All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:
github.com/openclaw/openclaw…
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If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.
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Did some local LLM-based labeling of the HN comment corpus, tasking the model to classify how likely it is that each comment is:
* Using AI-like grammar (e.g. it's not X, it's Y)
* Using AI-like markup (e.g. em-dashes)
* Trying to shill something
* Trying to influence public opinion
Still a bit work in progress, but here are some preview data.
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Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts.
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I have a hunch, but cannot prove, that prediction markets are the driving force behind a lot of we disinformation online, since they essentially monetarily incentivize making people misjudge the state of the world.
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There's been a huge uptick in this sort of brigade like behavior around current events. First noted it around LK99, that failed room temperature semiconductor in 2023, but it just keeps happening.
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New blog post, about index compression, and taming tail latencies. Link in comments.
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If a website could ever give your browser an STD, this might be the one. Strong contender for sketchiest looking domain name in the database.
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RFC 7231: The `Retry-After` header should contain "[...]value [that] is a non-negative decimal integer, representing time in seconds.
HTTP server implementers, for some reason: You know what would go well in `Retry-After`? Some frickin' decimal points!
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Published a short writeup about the new ranking changes from yesterday. Link in comment.
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So I've been cooking a bit with the ranking penalties.
Search result relevance in the default, unfiltered view should now be a lot better and much more human-centric. I don't want to promise SEO spam is completely gone, but it damn near is.
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Pushed some bug fixes to the index ranking algorithms, that had the side-effects of making the search results a bit worse because fixing the bug made certain SEO spam more effective.
Have a fix in the pipe, but it won't be ready until tomorrow earliest, a few days maybe.
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Wrote a new blog post, about blogging with clarity. Link in comment.
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