hn-search VS duckduckgo-locales

Sharing data with US Gov increasingly means delivering that data into the hands of the Whitehouse's top ally - Peter Thiel/Palantir

ref: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Guys, I want to investigate this claim, but people keep making it without giving me any details to look into. If you give us a specific news item or date range, we can look at the data and see what was happening (we have access to internal and external tools that show where each story was ranked at different times).

Also: any time you know of an important story that you think should be on the front page, you can email us to let us know - [email protected]. We'll either address it or explain why we're doing something other than what you're asking for.

> Someone relying on HN as their primary news aggregator

We don't expect anyone to be doing this, unless they actively want to not know what is happening in the mainstream news. Hacker News is very explicitly meant to be for things other than the normal stories in the mainstream news. This has been in the guidelines forever:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Even still, we have had huge numbers of heavily upvoted/discussed front-page stories about DOGE, which is clear from looking at this list:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1745410493&dateRange=custom&...

Again I say, if there's a story that you think should be in that list that wasn't, please let us know about it and we can investigate or explain.

This is a very popular article that get submitted every now and then (read nearly every year).

Past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Computational%20Complexity%20o...

Interestingly, [X has died] seems to be among some of the topmost upvoted posts of HN. (Based on https://hn.algolia.com/)

This HN post is seven days old but presented as if it was posted 9 hours ago. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

I really like the Barcelona Superblocks model [1], but paying people to move closer to schools is also an option imho.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=barcelona+superblocks

Political interest and intellectual interest are not the same thing. HN is for the latter.

There is overlap, of course [1], but there is also a huge amount of political and social material which is not primarily about intellectual curiosity. Most of that is off topic on HN (as the site guidelines say), even though much of it is far more important—as you say—than nearly anything else on HN.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Reminds me of Islamic Mashrabiya screens.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mashrabiya&ia=images&iax=images

Historically, the screens were quite simple, with more complex patterns rendered in ceramic tilings (symmetry groups, colorings, knots and intertwinings). Now there are good modern screens with more innovative patterns, made with computer-controlled laser cutters.

In a quick search for Kumiko examples, I very much like the irregular patterns that add or remove various symmetrical elements across the piece, often in an irregular macro-pattern. Similar pattern evolutions are possible with Islamic designs, but are not yet common - perhaps an opportunity.

https://archive.org/details/resignationinpro00weis

From an Amazon review comment: "This book offers an insightful analysis into the history and norms involved in the tradition of resignation in the U.S. and the U.K. Why do the British tend to resign loudly in protest and Americans resign “to spend more time with family” while praising their president? How do these norms benefit and harm their respective systems? The book offered hints at the determinants of these norms. Written shortly after Nixon’s resignation, the principles discussed are enduring."

Some interesting results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=resignation+in+protest

Including: "Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE"

Make default search be a version of ChatGPT and put ads on it? Could work (I wouldn't use it though). The way a lot of people use their browser they might be fine with it if it puts navigation-type links up top (I have literally seen a technical colleague with a PhD do a Google search for "x" and click a link rather than type the ".com"). The inference costs would surely make it hard to profit from though.

Having just closed a $40 billion USD funding round, OpenAI might actually be able to afford a fair price for Chrome (supposedly $15-20 billion USD [1]).

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chrome+sale+valuation

Ground up rock dust can be surprisingly effective to restore soil fertility: https://www.remineralize.org/

In general: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rock+dust+soil+amendment

> Maybe most of them are good, rational developers and were chosen for that reason.

This seems to be purpose-driven guess. To zero-in on what is, that info is trivial to find.

ref: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=what+we+know+about+doge+tech+...

ref: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/the-people-in-elon-musk-do...