Hacker News: ColinHayhurst

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Show HN: Kagi alternative (simpler and EU-based) – Uruky"

ColinHayhurst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:00:40 +0000

Nice. No tracking and no ads; been down that path! It will be interesting to see where and how you use AI.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

ColinHayhurst — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:45:17 +0000

They do

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

ColinHayhurst — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:38:52 +0000

Excuse the self-promotion but Mojeek offers a web search API (>9 billion pages): https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Ask HN: Does any search engine support returning 100 results at a time?"

ColinHayhurst — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:03:07 +0000

Mojeek can provide 40 results at a time. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&t=40

You can get up to 1,000 results. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&s=991

Up to 100 results from the API. https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

Discussed here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/02/are-search-engines-deleting-...

Disclosure: Mojeek CEO

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Bing Search APIs will be retired on 11 August 2025"

ColinHayhurst — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:40:04 +0000

https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Web search on the Anthropic API"

ColinHayhurst — Thu, 08 May 2025 06:31:07 +0000

Excuse the self-promotion but Mojeek is £3/1,000: https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe"

ColinHayhurst — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:24:36 +0000

Paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.08733

TL;DR - replace one big singularity with multiple singularities.

As in last sentence there is "The only difference between this work and the standard model is that the temporal singularity occurred only once in the latter, but more than once in the former."

tldr

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:39:04 +0000

You missed independent search engine Mojeek (UK), and which Kagi uses.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Rotors: A practical introduction for 3D graphics (2023)"

ColinHayhurst — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:09:59 +0000

> The geometric product is just the quaternion product broken up into scaler and vector parts.

The geometric product works in any dimensions. They have a clear geometric intepretation. Rotations and translations can done using the same algebraic operations.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena"

ColinHayhurst — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:20:50 +0000

ORG (Open Rights Group) as a UK org might provide good recommendations.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis"

ColinHayhurst — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:40:46 +0000

I saw the show in London. As a show it was brilliant and an unforgettable night. As live music performances better around then were The Cure and Mike Oldfield.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

ColinHayhurst — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:34:58 +0000

Credibility of the article plummeted when I got to that sentence, and especially since using name dropping.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Kagi Search API"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:47:50 +0000

Indeed you didn't; apologies.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Kagi Search API"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:40:58 +0000

Storage is an option here: https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Kagi Search API"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:39:30 +0000

Who said they are scraping? I can confirm they are certainly paying for the Mojeek API https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity"

ColinHayhurst — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:14:43 +0000

p281 for Dirac equation. But I suggest you start at least from the beginning of Chapter 8. Earlier, obviously if you don't know Geometric Algebra. It's worth it; many examples but one is that the four Maxwell equations are expressed as one compact equation with geometric intuition.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity"

ColinHayhurst — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:47:45 +0000

Complex numbers and (Pauli/Dirac) matrices not required if you use Geometric Algebra. I highly recommend the book by Doran and Lasenby [0], or you can get the details from their papers, notably [1].

[0] Geometric Algebra for Physicists, CUP, 2003

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0509178

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

ColinHayhurst — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:44:13 +0000

Mojeek CEO here: Our business model is our paid API and contextual, no-tracking ads.

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:14:23 +0000

> LLMs break the social contract of the internet

The legal concept of fair usage has and is being challenged, and will best tested in court. Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? Maybe [0].

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/05/is-the-golden-age-of-fair-us...

New comment by ColinHayhurst in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

ColinHayhurst — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:58:38 +0000

Mostly because Google bought, developed, acquired or effectively control all the major distribution points with default placement deals: eg Apple, Samsung, Chrome, Android, Firefox. In time remedies are coming though, in the antitrust case lost versus DoJ.

Another major factor is that building a search index and algorithms that searches across billions of pages with good enough latency is very hard. Easy enough for 10s of millions scale search but a different challenge for billions.

Some claim(ed) click-query data is needed at scale, and are hoping for that remedy. Our take is what is the point of replicating Google. Anyway, will this data be free or low cost? You know the answer.

Cloud infrastructure is very expensive. We save massively on costs by building our own servers, but that means capital outlay.