#search

An NSFW filter for Marginalia Search

… optional, that is. I’ve been working on an NSFW filter for Marginalia Search, as that is something some people have asked for, primarily API consumers. The search engine has had some domain based filtering for a while, based on the UT1 lists, but that isn’t a very comprehensive approach. We’ll land on a single hidden layer neural network approach, implemented from scratch, but before landing on that, many other things were tried along the way.

Marginalia Blog · EN

Marginalia Search, Money, C++, Rust, AI, stuff

Title possibly signs checks the article doesn’t have backing for. This is just a brief pro forma project update. Not much new functionality or anything to announce, last few months have mostly been bug fixes and technical debt cleanup. Most big parts of the search engine are in place, and while there are many things that could be better, we’re less likely to straight up see massive new features, at least in the immediate future. Per familiar intuition from binary searches, the closer you get to your goal the smaller and more deliberate steps you need to take in order to get even cl

Marginalia Blog · EN

Pen Mari

In the desperate search for a horse’s skull to lead an ancient folk procession, a man is drawn into the black market for animal body parts. Siôn Marshall-Waters…

Vimeo Staff Picks · EN

Why Might Aliens Visit Earth?

I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable.

Overcoming Bias · EN

Jo Marchant: In search of now

What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Aeon Video · EN

Hyperresearch

Durable, verified agentic search Discussion | Link

Product Hunt · EN

Building Semantic Search on my Content

I've added some pretty cool AI-powered features to kentcdodds.com and I want to tell you all about it.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search

Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity

Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

DeepMind Blog · EN

Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998

"The flow of time is always cruel."

Ars Technica · EN