An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

Aside from the topic, which is interesting in a nerdy, rabbit-hole way, I found it immensely calming that despite today's relentless, exhausting AI sonic boom, there are people working to optimize a 50-yr-old algorithm for doing something both mundane and very applicable. Maybe humanity is not doomed after all.

But unfortunately HN comment threads are still about AI or about other comments even when the OP is not.