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Language Support for Marginalia Search

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176 points Bogdanp | 4 comments | 21 Oct 25 06:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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reedf1 ◴[21 Oct 25 07:33 UTC] No.45653386[source]▶
Took me too long to realize this wasn't a tool to search for marginalia in scanned manuscripts.
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iamnothere ◴[21 Oct 25 17:23 UTC] No.45658563[source]▶
Hey, at least it isn’t named after a very large number, an excited exclamation, or a sound effect. Surely no product with one of those names would ever succeed.
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1. marginalia_nu ◴[21 Oct 25 19:04 UTC] No.45660167[source]▶
I probably should have named it cartoon-trombone.wav in retrospect.
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2. reedf1 ◴[22 Oct 25 08:07 UTC] No.45666134[source]▶
It's a fine name! I had marginalia on the mind - I am reading The Name of the Rose.
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3. iamnothere ◴[22 Oct 25 11:46 UTC] No.45667651[source]▶
That makes sense. I am perhaps overly sensitive to the drive by “name haters” who seem to show up in every FOSS or indie project thread.
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4. reedf1 ◴[22 Oct 25 12:28 UTC] No.45668018{3}[source]▶
I feel a bit bad it was interpreted that way.

Some fun context, I was trying to find a scanned copy of the first 'correct' book on optics (written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham). Possibly the first person to really use the scientific method in circa 1000CE (!!). And I found this (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00209/103) filled with interesting optical diagrams like something out of my high school physics notebooks. Anyway - I was also thinking about how they might index interesting doodles in the margins. So it was on my mind.