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183 from 30 Jun 2021 to 26 Oct 2026
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2026 16

  1. Marginalia Search, Money, C++, Rust, AI, stuff
  2. Softly now
  3. Weblog/
  4. Turning off RGB automatically on Linux
  5. Miscellaneous/
  6. Your harddrive is probably full
  7. Unranked, systemd, crawls
  8. LinkedIn fanfiction
  9. Maybe you should learn something
  10. An NSFW filter for Marginalia Search
  11. New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
  12. Weird AI Crap/
  13. AI makes you boring
  14. Index Compression, Query Execution Improvements
  15. Trust in Ranking
  16. You should probably tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible

2025 15

  1. New Search Filtering in Web and API
  2. Language Support for Marginalia Search
  3. The CoPilot productivity paradox
  4. Snark, Ironic Detachment, Authenticity
  5. Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
  6. Finding Dead Websites
  7. Profiling Websites
  8. A 2030 morning routine
  9. PDF to Text, a challenging problem
  10. Debugging A Crawler Stall
  11. Crawl Order and Disorder
  12. Marginalia Search receives second nlnet grant
  13. Improved ways to operate a rude crawler
  14. Marginalia Search: 4 Years
  15. How to make an android dumbphone

2024 21

  1. RSS Feeds and Real Time Crawling
  2. Notes on binary soup
  3. Release Notes v2024.10.0
  4. Release Notes/
  5. Phrase Matching in Marginalia Search
  6. The sorry state of Java deserialization
  7. Less Coffee, Better Sleep
  8. One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work
  9. Feynman's Garden
  10. Experiment in Java native calls
  11. Using DuckDB to seamlessly query a large parquet file over HTTP
  12. Query Parsing and Understanding
  13. Deep Bug
  14. 2 Sigma Education
  15. Problems/
  16. The Yak Shave
  17. Marginalia: 3 Years
  18. Best SEO spam 2024 reddit
  19. Contexts, Friction and Distractions
  20. Charlatans spreading misleading beginner advice are the evolutionary crabs of youtube content creators
  21. Release Notes v2024.01.0

2023 44

  1. A Hobby Coding Biography
  2. A Frivolous Feature
  3. How To Read An Article On The Internet
  4. WARC'in the crawler
  5. Anchor Tags
  6. Partitioning The Index
  7. The List
  8. Moving Marginalia to a New Server
  9. Release Notes v2023.10.0
  10. A Disk Usage Mystery
  11. Marginalia Search receives FUTO Grant
  12. Lamb Patties with Tzatziki
  13. Recipes/
  14. Absurd Success
  15. Server Status Log/
  16. Release Notes v2023.08.0
  17. Sleeping at Night
  18. Life in 1080p
  19. Message Queues, State Machines, Actors, UI
  20. Release Notes v2023.06.0
  21. Full Time
  22. Killing Community
  23. Release Notes v2023.03.2
  24. Confessions
  25. R.I.P. Memex
  26. Idiot Proof Tomato Sauce
  27. Installing Debian Bullseye on HP Spectre x360 (dual boot)
  28. An off-ramp from the digital IKEA maze
  29. Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism
  30. The Search Engine Is Down
  31. Faq
  32. Marginalia Search/
  33. The Search Engine Is Down
  34. Going Github
  35. Api
  36. Search Result Quality For Multiple Terms
  37. The Grand Code Restructuring
  38. Marginalia Search: 2 years, big news
  39. A new approach to domain ranking
  40. Good Video Games
  41. Are you ok?
  42. Memex Design
  43. The Search Engine Is Down
  44. Faster Index Joins

2022 40

  1. Creepy Website Similarity
  2. About Marginalia Search
  3. On Wizards and Sorcerers
  4. The best ideas come AFK
  5. For Webmasters
  6. Carbon Dating HTML
  7. Scaling doesn't scale
  8. Marginalia's Index Reaches 100,000,000 Documents
  9. The Search Engine Is Down
  10. Privacy Considerations
  11. Fragments of the Old Web
  12. Links
  13. The Search Engine Is Down
  14. The Search Engine Is Down
  15. Donate To This Project
  16. The Evolution of Marginalia's crawling
  17. Marginaliacoin, and hidden forums
  18. Botspam Apocalypse
  19. The Enigmatic Jacket
  20. The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973
  21. On Prescriptive Descriptions
  22. Fun with Anchor Text Keywords
  23. marginalia.nu goes open source
  24. I don't know how to build software
  25. Uncertain Future For Marginalia Search
  26. Lexicon Architectural Rubberducking
  27. The Bargain Bin B-Tree
  28. Is There A Better Hard Drive Metaphor?
  29. Growing Pains
  30. The Static File Startup
  31. A meditation on correctness in software
  32. Marginalia Search: 1 year
  33. Bookmarks
  34. I have no capslock and I must scream
  35. Drive Failure
  36. The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
  37. Can we unfuck internet discoverability?
  38. Discovery and Design Considerations
  39. Pseudonymous
  40. 42 dark

2021 47

  1. Search Result Relevance
  2. Wasted Resources
  3. Even the ancient Greeks appreciated a good dialogue
  4. A brief hypothesis about "normies"
  5. Old and New
  6. A Jaunt Through Keyword Extraction
  7. Localized Programming Languages
  8. Keeping Gemini Difficult
  9. A Polemic Against Internet Arguments
  10. The Parable of A Rude Guest
  11. Bot Apologetics
  12. Shaking N-gram needles from large haystacks
  13. Unintuitive Optimization
  14. The Mystery of the Ceaseless Botnet DDoS
  15. Web Browsing
  16. Getting with the times
  17. Experimenting with Personalized PageRank
  18. Astrolabe - The October Update
  19. Thoughts on Silly Hats
  20. Re: Software and Branding
  21. Against the Flood
  22. New Solutions Creating Old Problems
  23. The Curious Case of the Dot-Com Link Farms
  24. The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
  25. Soaring High
  26. Chicken Soup
  27. Git Isn't A Web Service
  28. Cursed Motivation
  29. On acting in self-interest
  30. Stages of Being
  31. Enter the Circle of Blame
  32. Rendered static HTML
  33. Bye, Bye, Gmail
  34. Dying, Every Day (Re: Last times)
  35. The Astrolabe Part II: The Magic Power of Sampling Bias
  36. The System Upgrade
  37. Whatever happened to the Memex?
  38. Local Backlinks
  39. Index Optimizations
  40. The Mind's A Field
  41. On Link Farms
  42. Writing for Reading
  43. Re: To unit test or not to unit test, that is the question
  44. The Astrolabe Part I: Lenscraft
  45. French Borscht
  46. Bacon Omelette
  47. Thoughts on the linkpocalypse