Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all. I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on.I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b. Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words.2.
- ▪It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all.
- ▪I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on.I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b.
- ▪Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words.2.
Hacker News (Front Page) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 1,018 of its stories. Top-voted stories on Hacker News.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155492 |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:22:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T14:20:42.271Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T14:20:42.271Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Yds2y9lpQsy8 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
We need it - I’d use 3 search engines. It’s not like MMOs or social media where 1 winner takes all. I think people want more search options, cloud, email, and so-on.I once tried to index the web with local Mistral 7b. Here’s what I did:1. Copy/pasted an English dictionary and removed the definitions, so I just had an Array of about 500k words.2. Wrote a simple loop to iterate over the words, with the instruction to Mistral to try to guess 10 URLs related to that word. I would typically get 2-3 sites per word.3. When visiting a site, also check that site for links to other URLs, and summarize it with hash tags, visiting the new sites as well and recursively doing that.4.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.