AFAIK There's not really a programming language specific for describing how players interact in a game, so although there's no reason you couldn't implement it in any old programming language. I guess the same thing could be said of the law too until Catala.

Self-reflection (and a nice dose of stoicism) every now and then helps keep that in check, but it's also crippling to stay there too long.

I tried solving the search quality problem (for technical content like engineering blogs) a while back by filtering using heuristics based on websites/urls. At one point I was experimenting with RSS, but found that many websites only show the past X number of entries and gave up that direction since it excluded too much content.

Are you seeing a similar problem now?

Time filter is a great idea. In an earlier iteration, I tried ingesting creation time in the crawler. Unfortunately, not all sites would have a timestamp included and they way they incorporate it was a mess (metadata vs url vs a random ), so it didn't make the release. But this is definitely something to revisit soon.

I goofed, but it's fixed now! I use the endpoint where the public suggest page is hosted for private admin access as well. Those admin pages are authed with Clerk, but I was never using the production Clerk instance in production. Whoops.

Community curation is a good concept. I'm a little hesitant because community contributions can degrade a platform (e.g. people writing marketing content on Wikipedia). But the biggest hurdle had been building a reasonable content index, so despite that risk, the reward will seem to be worth it.

Re ranking: what you're saying makes a lot of sense in the context of topic discovery. But is less useful for q/a or reference style searches. Although it will still probably be good enough.

The motivation behind it is that there is a lot of great content written by engineers in personal/company blogs, niche websites, and even by big tech in some of their more obscure doc/devrel pages. And I wanted a way to quickly access that by topic.

Vaguely inspired by ArxivSanity and HackerNews :)

I've only been working on this for a couple of weeks, but would love to get your thoughts HN! Some ideas I have (beyond indexing more pages) are: adding similarity/recommendations, fully automate the crawler, and allowing voting/ranking or some similar mechanism.

Content wise: there's a lot that should be on here, but it's a modest start so far. If you have suggestions please let me know here: https://a.sodha.dev/suggest

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