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github.com 1mo ago

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

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lopaka.app 5mo ago

Lopaka: Create pixel-perfect graphics for embedded devices

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fxgn.dev 8mo ago

You Don't Need Anubis

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blog.kagi.com 10mo ago

Building a Better Web Takes a Village: Introducing Kagi Specials

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gekk.info 1y ago

Traceroute Isn't Real

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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show

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github.com 2y ago

GitHub Profile with a Custom Background

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vhyrro.github.io 2y ago

Moving Beyond Type Systems

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bitwarden.com 2y ago

Bitwarden transitions from Manifest v2 to v3

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github.com 2y ago

Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

List of Unusual Units of Measurement

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code.xxut.ru 2y ago

CodePhoto – the worst way to share your code

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aerc-mail.org 2y ago

Aerc – a pretty good email client

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english.stackexchange.com 2y ago

Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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jump.dev 2y ago

JuMP

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www.windows93.net 2y ago

Windows 93

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cobalt.tools 2y ago

Cobalt – a media downloader that doesn't piss you off

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usebottles.com 2y ago

Bottles Next: A New Chapter

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julialang.org 2y ago

The Julia Programming Language

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Is this backup solution fine?

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github.com 2y ago

Conway Game of Life in Sed

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quantum.country 2y ago

Quantum computing for the very curious

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metazooa.com 2y ago

Metazooa – Guess the Mystery Animal

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android-developers.googleblog.com 3y ago

Google Play adds NFTs

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www.nexxel.dev 3y ago

Why I Switched from Neovim to VSCode

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

New Cellular Automata

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obsidian.md 3y ago

The New Obsidian Icon

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insect.sh 3y ago

Insect – high precision scientific calculator with support for physical units

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that censors informations about the illegal Ukraine war crimes

If your concern is specifically about the censorship, then it's not an issue with Kagi, since Yandex is used as one of many sources (and mainly for images afaik)

It’s possible that the chat/ux model does know and has an unbiased opinion about china, but the filtering is on the front end/client side and so the user facing model has not been fine tuned natively

This has always been the case with Chinese models. Their web ui is a service provided from China, so they are required to censor it, but not the models themselves.

Just like DC5 is often down to the discontent of Chinese users, DC2 is the one serving all Russian and Ukrainian users, so in the more technical Russian-speaking communities "dc2 down" is also a pretty common saying

For what? I was using GPT-5.5 through Byesu.com and it suddenly stopped working yesterday

(Not affiliated in any way, I'm sure there are better services out there, this is just the one a friend recommended to me and I haven't researched other options)

but also store data and sell to whoever is training

I see this as an argument against using them/Chinese models all the time, but I don't get it. I totally understand wanting to keep your data private if you're using an LLM for personal chats. But coding? I'm not working for the military, I'd gladly donate my codebase to Chinese labs if that means they can keep releasing 6-months-behind level models for 100x cheaper.

(I understand why OpenAI doesn't want this and would implement protections. I'm talking about people using this as an argument for why you as an end user shouldn't use those services.)

Not gonna argue about the utility of AI, but isn't the statement "AI is not here to help people" completely meaningless? AI itself is not "here" for anything; the problem is big tech doing big tech shit as always, not the current technology they're doing it with.

All the results for "e os" are about /e/OS, and that's its full name, so you wouldn't just search for "e". D language is a better example — its just called "D", but searching for that doesn't give results about the language. On the other hand, for "C" and "R" the top results are all about the languages. "Go" is also a pretty bad one, they insist it's not called "golang" but you basically have to search for that to get any useful information.

OpenPrinter 17 days ago

Unlike now, where instead of saying your hypothesis you're just letting every reader come up with what they think is a crazy conspiracy theory and ascribe it to you?

No specific figures, but see, for example:

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/ai-copyright.html

Virtually all major companies building LLMs contacted us to train on our data. Most (but not all!) US-based companies reconsidered once they realized the illegal nature of our work. By contrast, Chinese firms have enthusiastically embraced our collection, apparently untroubled by its legality.

We have given high-speed access to about 30 companies. Most of them are LLM companies, and some are data brokers, who will resell our collection. Most are Chinese, though we’ve also worked with companies from the US, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and Japan. DeepSeek admitted that an earlier version was trained on part of our collection, though they’re tight-lipped about their latest model (probably also trained on our data though).

It's at least 30 companies, each of which paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.