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Kagi Small Web

32Distinct people
37Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.7KGitHub stars
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Kagi Small Web

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:36:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year37 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-09-07 15:18:07 UTC to 2026-06-20 16:59:15 UTC.

0510152023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116

What Hacker News says

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I don’t mind writing original content like the old web. And there’s obviously other people who do this too https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx... I don’t get much traffic but I don’t mind. The thing that really made it for me is sites like this http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/m-mat/AKECHI/index.htm... They just give you such an insight into another human being in this raw fashion you don’t get through a persona built website. My own blog is very similar. Haphazard and unprofessional and perhaps one day slurped into an LLM or successor (I have no problem with this). Perhaps one day some other guy will read my blog like I read Makoto Matsumoto’s. If they feel that connection across time then that will suffice! And if they don’t, then the pleasure of writing will do. And if that works for me, it’ll work for oth
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er people too. Previously finding them was hard because there was no one on the Internet. Now it’s hard because everyone’s on it. But it’s still a search problem.
In AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
Very much this. Blog are still out there, still written by awesome people. I’m gonna add a bunch of resources: - https://ooh.directory/ more than 2000 blogs listed here and organized in categories - https://kagi.com/smallweb allows you to jump from one page to the next all from a big list of small independent sites that are almost all blogs. Raw sources are available on GitHub https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb - https://peopleandblogs.com/ I’m personally maintaining this project where once a week I feature a person with a blog
In What happened to blogs

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