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Notes from building Reika. Engineering posts are about design decisions and why they went the way they did. Research posts report a measured finding: the hypothesis, the baseline, the runs, and what the numbers can't show. Null results get posted too.

• November 8, 2026engineering
  Why the web search has a human in it

  SearXNG got CAPTCHA'd without saying so, so Reika drives a real Chrome and asks a person to clear the occasional bot check.