DownloadNet
Yacy
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20 | 115 | |
3,653 | 3,265 | |
2.1% | 1.0% | |
6.1 | 8.7 | |
18 days ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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DownloadNet
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
For anyone who uses Chrome and wants to view their archived pages in the browser as if they were still online (URL and everything intact), and also full-text search through their browsing history that was archived (like AB plans to add in future, I think, right nikki?) you can check out DownloadNet: https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet
You can have multiple archives, and even use a mode where you only archive pages you bookmark rather than everything.
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
This does look cool. It reminds me of a recent discovery I made. The other day, while trying to recover some disk space, I found a giant file on my hard disk. It turned out to be a nine-hour screen recording from almost a year ago. I had no idea it existed, so I must’ve accidentally left the screen recording on. Watching it was fascinating; it was like a window into my thought process at that time. You could see how I was researching something online. It was almost like a play-by-play, akin to re-watching a sports performance – very instructive and surprisingly useful.
In a similar vein to what you’ve done, but focusing specifically on web browsing, I’ve created a tool called ‘DownloadNet.’ It archives for offline use and fully indexes every page you visit. Additionally, it can be configured to archive only the pages you bookmark, offering another mode of operation. It’s an open-source tool, so feel free to check it out: https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet
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You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser
Given that I directly work in this space I found the article's synthesis of a range of ideas about browser innovation to be highly relevant.
More generally, the article is actually extremely interesting and examines a bunch of ideas worthy of consideration if you're interested in the future of web browsing.
Perhaps none of the ideas are new in isolation, but it's encouraging that people are doing this foundational conceptual work and imagining where a synthesis of them would go.
Despite being interesting somehow on the page it was not so easy to read. Here's a summary of key ideas:
Stagnation in Browser Evolution: Berjon notes that despite being central to the web's architecture, browsers haven't changed much in their fundamental design for a long time. They have undergone incremental changes but the core concept remains largely the same as it was decades ago.
Reimagining Browsers: He suggests that to increase user agency—a principle that the web should empower users—we need to consider major overhauls to what a browser is and how it operates.
Integration of Search and Social: Berjon challenges the traditional separation of browsers, search engines, and social platforms. He advocates for an integrated approach where the browser encompasses these functions, aligning more closely with users' experiences and expectations.
Shift From Client to Agent: The author proposes rethinking the browser not just as a client for retrieving documents but as an "agent" that provides a variety of services, potentially including server-like functions, to empower users.
User Agency and Personal Data Servers: By incorporating elements such as Personal Data Servers (PDS), users could manage their own data and services like recommendations, identity, and subscriptions, which currently rely on third-party providers.
Tab Management: Berjon critiques the use of tabs, suggesting that they are an ineffective method for organizing and interacting with web content, and advocates for better UI solutions.
Business Models: He delves into the financial aspects of browsers, highlighting the significant profits derived from setting search engine defaults. Berjon argues for reinvestment of these profits into the web as a public good and for developing business models that truly benefit user agency.
Potential for Change: Despite the challenges, Berjon is optimistic about the possibility of change, noting that there is room for product differentiation and that financial incentives can drive innovation in the browser space.
I found the one about User Agency and Personal Data Servers particularly fascinating. I've been exploring the idea of a federated search engine, where a person curates their own search through their browsing history (and ultimately could share it socially), in DownloadNet: https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet
And my company has been developing a platform for building extended and customized browsing experiences and delivering them anywhere. It's my hope that BrowserBox will play a part in the future direction of the browser as user agent. It's open source so if you care about the future of the web, get involved: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox :)
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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
If you're interested in utilizing your history information for something in your intentional interests, consider saving an archive of pages you browse to make a search engine you can query back through later.
You can save the full content for indexing with full text search, and you can even export archives as tarballs by zipping up the directory. Many people find this a useful way to "mine" their own browser history to create a curated search engine aligned with your interests. Or simply to save the pages they browse for review offline--either to save bandwidth, or just because they're actually "offline"--at a remote site, or on an airplane.
Everything is saved in a fully interactive way. Personally tho, I find search the most useful feature. Also, we're open source so if you want to get involved, please do so!
https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet
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Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager
If you want full-text-search with archiving check out my project, DiskerNet. https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet --> also well done on LinkWarden! Looks like a great product! :)
- Show HN: DiskerNet – Browse the Internet from Your Disk, Now Open Source
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Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
For archiving, look into https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet
It's real next gen thinking on this topic.
As for the featured tool wayback... If HN readers can't figure out what it does after reading docs, its likely the thinking behind it is equally unclear.
- DiskerNet - Save and index web content locally
- Show HN: DiskerNet – save and index web content locally
Yacy
- New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
- YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network
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New 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism
It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines.
In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to reach a desired narrative. Google Gemini is the latest example [2] of where this leads.
Given that it is plausible that models like these will soon be used in educational settings this is a recipe for disaster. The same goes for the trend to replace search engine results with 'interpreted' results in which LLMs take up the same role as Winston in 1984: Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.
It is time for a decentralised distributed search engine which limits itself to pure search, something like YaCy [3]. Something to replace Winstonian search engines like Google and Bing (et al.).
[1] https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-h...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255
[3] https://yacy.net/
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Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ...
Here you go: https://yacy.net
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Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl.
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admarus alternatives - ipfs-search and Yacy
3 projects | 9 Aug 2023
Admarus is similar as Yacy but aims to be distributed where Yacy is federated. Both are made for the web
- Brave Search launches own image and video search
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Show HN: DiskerNet – Browse the Internet from Your Disk, Now Open Source
You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.
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How do you organize your data?
I also have an instance of Yacy installed, which I use to index the entire system, giving me my own private, internal search engine.
- Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
What are some alternatives?
min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
Searx - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
SingleFileZ - Web Extension to save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a self-extracting ZIP file
MeiliSearch - A lightning-fast search API that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow
BackstopJS - Catch CSS curve balls.
searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
hamsterbase - self-hosted, local-first web archive application.
Gigablast - Nov 20 2017 -- A distributed open source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD. From gigablast dot com, which has binaries for download. See the README.md file at the very bottom of this page for instructions.
ZAP - The ZAP core project
Seeks - Seeks is a decentralized p2p websearch and collaborative tool.
Archiver - a streaming interface for archive generation
Typesense - Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences