YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Yes, sir(s)! Using a search engine without ads is such a life improvement that it’d be a steal at twice the price.

Imagine DuckDuckGo but with no ads and good results every time instead of 90% of the time… absolute game changer.

EDIT: put another way; if you think ads don’t work on you, you’re just not aware enough. Ads work on everyone —in the moment and otherwise- and search ads are the most effective ads in history.

That’s why Google is explicitly built around using their money printer to pay into a long list of “bets”, hoping to find the next money printer before people realize how insidious this one is.

I love Kagi. I especially appreciate how it pushes back against AI slop and makes the web feel more human again. I haven't looked back at Google since switching. The search results are consistently better.

My favorite feature is Smallweb [0]. I've actually replaced doomscrolling with browsing random personal blogs and discovering interesting corners of the internet.

[0] https://kagi.com/smallweb/

Kagi is really good. And I never thought I would say this but their AI assistent actually works. It is well integrated with their search product to deliver actually usefully results.

That said I’ve had a hard time getting other people on board. Apparently many people are just numb to the enshittification of the web?