Hacker News: JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JSeikoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 07:17:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>nice!

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 02:07:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156152JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156152<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>in which way? (genuine question)

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 01:28:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155957JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155957<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>not that I know of ...

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 01:27:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155950JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155950https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155950<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>this is so great to hear! Distributed proofreaders (the org that actually does transcriptions) is still looking for volunteer should you feel the urge/inclination :) https://www.pgdp.net

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 22:01:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154503JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154503https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154503<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>PG works based on US copyright law. And as I understand it that's also 70 years after author/translator death. My gut feeling is that if anyone tried hard enough this ban could probably get lifted

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:54:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154406JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154406<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>good question. Eric - any pointers?

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:48:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154353JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154353https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154353<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>I believe our new-ish CEO Eric Hellman actually did some work on something very similar

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:45:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153574JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153574<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>you can open an Issue at https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:27:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153387JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153387https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153387<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>I asked Claude to research the background story: "In May 2020, the Court of Rome ordered Italian ISPs to seize/block a list of domains as part of a criminal case (the 52127/20 R.N.R. you're seeing) targeting sites and Telegram channels distributing pirated newspapers and magazines. 28 domains were on the list, and Project Gutenberg got thrown in alongside the actual pirate sites."

apparently this situation hasn't been resolved yet

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:26:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153373JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153373<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>That's an interesting idea. not a small feat to accomplish though ...

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:24:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153358JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153358<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>we are having occasional lows in page speed performance due to LARGE amounts of bot traffic. full disclosure - we've not really been able to resolve this fully/well. Let us know if you have a good idea for how to deal with it

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:23:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153346JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153346<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>just heard back that the server provider has been doing a security update. Maybe you were one of the users that got unlucky as a result... maybe try later if still interested

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:57:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152448JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152448https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152448<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>Interesting!

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:51:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152361JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152361https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152361<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>Flatland: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=flatland

I've heard good things. Also - Sherlock Holmes :)

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:50:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152344JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152344<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>I'm getting "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server." if I go to the link

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:48:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152324JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152324https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152324<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>that would be great! Sadly I'm not very confident that that will actually happen ...

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:47:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152310JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152310<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>so maybe Karpathy has a point that LLM-assisted reading should be a thing. Would be cool if that worked on E-Reader screens as well. Maybe when the browsers on E-Readers become good enough ...

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:39:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152199JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152199https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152199<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>I've reported it.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:29:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152069JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152069https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152069<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>that's cool! one of my "pet-ideas" is actually to make an AI-agent that does all that typographical work for any PG book to make it nicely printable without any manual labor whatsoever. Maybe that's doable now ...

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151977JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151977https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151977<![CDATA[New comment by JSeiko in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>bot traffic would be my guess too. I doubt there was a sudden global spike in interest in "Concrete Construction Methods" :D

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:19:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151957JSeikohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151957