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Kagi Shipped a Setting That Drops Paywalled Sites From Results, and It Became the Week's Top HN Story at 1,248 Points
Kagi's 2026-08-21 changelog added an opt-in filter that excludes paywalled websites from search results entirely, and the entry reached 1,248 points with 390 comments, the highest-scoring story on Hacker News over the last 48 hours. The same August changelog covers Assistant improvements including link, Markdown and LaTeX rendering in user messages, cross-thread search with sorting, folder organization replacing tags, and configurable temporary-thread retention at 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. The engagement level is the signal: paywall fatigue outscored every AI launch this cycle.
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