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Hister Indexed 117 of Our 129 Files and Never Told Us About the Other 12

Hister is a self-hosted search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep, and it hit the Hacker News front page with 648 points. We pointed it at 129 of our own markdown files. It imported 117 and said nothing about the rest.

Sep 21, 20266 min

Close-up of a tablet displaying Google's search screen, emphasizing technology and internet browsing.

News11 days ago

Google Replaced Every Search Result Link With an Opaque Redirect

Google quietly swapped direct URLs for Tink-encrypted /goto redirects. Resolving 10 links now costs 11 HTTP requests, and a federal judge had just dismissed Google's legal attempt to stop scrapers.

Sep 13, 20265 min