Hacker News: rdmuser

New comment by rdmuser in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

rdmuser — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:02:47 +0000

It's great seeing some more varied takes on search engines like this. That's essentially the same reason I use inoreaders rss search to find articles when I want to revisit them etc and it has been super handy. I know there have been some projects focused on rss search engines like OpenOrb that have some similarities to Hister. Makes me wonder if Hister could seed its history using rss.

New comment by rdmuser in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

rdmuser — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:18:36 +0000

For searches where you want more that just the first result and want a depth of results to go through and maybe even check out more than the first page of results I like to use meta-search engines that grab results from multiple sources. Plus it helps route around censorship since you are getting results from a variety of sources. Searxng is the best known one.

I was quite fond of ixquick but it shut down ages ago. These days I like etools.ch especially since it includes results from search engines like marginalia etc that I tend to forget to search directly but like having meshed into my general searches. Plus you can change which engines it uses in settings and it shows which search engine(s) each link came from which is handy.

On a related note I like to check out Serdys list of search engines with their own indexes once if a while. It gets updated here and there and includes a fair amount of search engines I don't tend to see elsewhere.

https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey

rdmuser — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:37:00 +0000

Article URL: https://mnot.net/blog/2026/feed-survey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094188

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by rdmuser in "Slop Cop"

rdmuser — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:56:59 +0000

I've been wanting something like this for a while now but as an extension that runs locally. Just something I can click to get a quick response telling me if the article seems like ai so I can focus on the writing without needing to spend energy on remembering ai styles and detecting obvious ai. I'd be pretty happy to see something like that built straight into firefox.

Ultimately slop is so pervasive that I'm wasting a fair amount of time vetting text and it's affecting my ability to simply enjoy reading. I keep getting part way into an article before realizing it's low quality ai writing. Being able to get a quick heads up that it looks like ai before starting would save me a lot of energy even on articles I decide to try reading because it cuts down on mental overhead.

New comment by rdmuser in "Kagi Small Web"

rdmuser — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:40:23 +0000

Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net. I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes. I love that kagi is doing so much of this out in the open though.

There are a surprising amount out there: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternativ...

New comment by rdmuser in "It's time to move your docs in the repo"

rdmuser — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:30:41 +0000

It's a good saying but the literal meaning is not entirely correct anymore. Climate change has changed the math on tree planting in a few ways. For example tree planting in your area today may backfire vs 30 years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forest-preservati...

The View from RSS

rdmuser — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232849

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Local.html: Social Discovery by Browser-Based Crawling

rdmuser — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://lofihi.fi/local-html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215503

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rdmuser in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

rdmuser — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:27:48 +0000

Oh good point I also overlooked that with the anti ai list.

The big anti ai list also seems to be focused on hiding links from ddg/bing/google where this new more focused list just blocks sites. I tend to like block ones vs hiding because they pop up a nice warning no matter where I came from and I can still decide to ignore it if I want so they is more user agency instead of just quietly hiding a unclear chunk of the net from search engines.

New comment by rdmuser in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

rdmuser — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:50:25 +0000

Personally I find that I prefer badly written english or auto-translated stuff written in languages foreign to me over ai generated or even just ai polished works I've seen. There is just so much more character, depth and variance there vs ultra ai generic or slop text.

That being said this project seems focused on content farms not people who just need a little help writing so this whole conversation is a bit of a side tangent.

New comment by rdmuser in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

rdmuser — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:10:49 +0000

A new more grounded list focused on specifically blocking content farms and similar low quality sites.

A nice alternative to this very broad anti ai list: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Edit: Oh I should mention I found it through reddit and there is some good discussion there where they describe how they find stuff etc: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1r9uo3j/autom...

AI uBlock Blacklist

rdmuser — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:10:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098582

Points: 295

# Comments: 130

New comment by rdmuser in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

rdmuser — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:55:56 +0000

Oh neat! I went and shared this with some Brazilian friends of mine. They tend to like stuff like this so I think it will make them happy.

I know I enjoyed checking out some sites you have in that list (using translation) so thanks!

I love browsing outside the anglosphere but it can be challenging sometimes finding curators that find regular new sites or posts to check out when other languages aren't part of your regular browsing routine.

New comment by rdmuser in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

rdmuser — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:10:56 +0000

One other thing people might like about the conversation is that it has a bunch of regional subsections so it isn't overrun by US news like a lot of news sites. Well outside the US section of course. I know I personally appreciate having another source of informed writting that also covers local factors and events.

New comment by rdmuser in "Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game"

rdmuser — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:32:46 +0000

10tons tends to make smaller scale games and you feel it sometimes but I've had a great time with quite a few of their other shooters too. You used to be able to get this bundle for cheap from fanatical sometimes, not sure if that is still the case. They are best known in the modern era for Tesla vs Lovecraft which doesn't show up in this bundle. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/428/10tons_Shooters/

There have been a few attempts to make open source versions of Crimsonland and I had a good time with Violetland https://github.com/ooxi/violetland

Bazzite Post-Mortem

rdmuser — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:40:53 +0000

Article URL: https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824250

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rdmuser in "RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web"

rdmuser — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:47:10 +0000

The kagi smallweb site has an alternative feed that is less high traffic that only includes appreciated (liked) articles. It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic and not a lot of users use the main site with the button to appreciate things. https://kagi.com/smallweb/appreciated

You can find a few alt feeds for the kagi small web by going to the site and clicking the top right rss button. There are ones for videos, code and comics and a link to the full opml file. https://kagi.com/smallweb

Btw is there an rss feed for the hn smallweb one?

New comment by rdmuser in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

rdmuser — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:46:35 +0000

It was sold back in 2022 to Branch Metrics https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/branch-strikes-...

August 2024 everyone working on it was laid off except the original dev https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24217077/nova-launcher-lay...

September 2025 the original dev left after being told to stop work on open sourcing it https://www.theverge.com/news/773937/nova-launcher-founder-l...

New comment by rdmuser in "KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android"

rdmuser — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:03:09 +0000

The dev has an active hn account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neamar

New comment by rdmuser in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

rdmuser — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:22:44 +0000

The creator has a hn account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=meteo-jeff

His initial comment describing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504740