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Our lecturer for condensed matter physics based a large part of the course on an (excellent) book that was out of print [1]. He kindly had it photocopied and bound for us all for free.

[1] https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00stau/mode/2up

Yes, we veto sites to prevent spam.

I'm not sure you would like the results of what you suggest - if you are really going to crawl everything indiscriminately, you will end up with a lot of rubbish. Just check out Common Crawl if you want to get an idea of what it would look like.

Yeah the ranking algorithm is just wrong right now. I'm working on it.

The curated items will stay the same, but we can't expect all queries to be curated.

I took the page down as it was attracting the wrong sort of attention. As some commenters surmised, the goal was to promote the search engine, but it wasn't working out that way...

Spot on

Here's an alternative for streaming services that I've been trying out: buy second hand DVDs, rip them, then serve them with Plex. You can get 5 DVDs for £10 which is more than I can watch in a month, and less than I'd pay for Netflix, and the choice is huge, even if I restrict myself to these cheap ones.

I can't comment on the question as I'm not a designer and not in Germany, but there's a typo on the GitHub page: "tought" -> "thought".

Hi HN! Would love to get your feedback on this idea and the feature. It is super early and there are lots of issues with it, but the basic idea is there.

All I can see is a "continue with Google" button...

This is so cool, the new machine is a beast!

Do you know roughly how many pages you have in your index?

I've been using dokku for Mwmbl and have been fairly happy with it.

Congrats on the recent success by the way ;)

That seems to be because it's written kamilkazani, and automatically splitting such names is a hard problem

The more people that join, and help us crawl, the better it gets.

Yes, I took a break for a while, my fourth child was just born! Still committed to the project though and working on it when I get time.

Thanks for your encouragement. Would love to have a chat some time.

We actually just take the union and then re-rank. Because the lists are all small, this is cheap.

Yes, you're correct on the purpose. We mitigate it a little by also indexing on bigrams.

The API is open so feel free to write your own front end that doesn't need js, or send a PR to add support for no js.

10240000 - see https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/blob/18dc760a3402c74803823a94...

Thank you! Join us if you like, there is plenty of work to do.

Thanks, feel free to send a PR!

Thanks, I didn't know this history! We don't use any user data when crawling, just bandwidth and compute. We tell the extension what to crawl.

Thanks, Marginalia search was a big inspiration for this project!

It's easy to crawl specific sites using the command line crawler

Hi, creator here, happy to see this posted! Feel free to ask any questions.

Yeah, pretty much, I named it after Mumbles or Mwmbwls where I live, but it's also a play on the word mumble.

Ha, well I used to teach Prolog and yes, you could solve it using Prolog but I think it would be horribly slow without Knuth's magic algorithm.

This is what we're building at https://mwmbl.org

Mwmbl has its own index but it's orders of magnitude smaller than commercial search engines.

Nice! Please consider adding https://mwmbl.org

Thanks!