> That’s a pretty clever filter tbh. Sounds so evident that I’m amazed nobody thought of it before.
I did. I posted it on HN as a comment. It was a very popular (by my standards) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438288
The thread was interesting, with a lot of people posting rebuttals for why such a scheme would obviously not work. Equally obviously, someone else thought it was a good idea and went and implemented it.
> Equally obviously, someone else thought it was a good idea and went and implemented it.
Maybe I misunderstood, but it's not obvious to me that someone read your idea, thought it was good, and then went to implement it.
https://github.com/searchmysite/searchmysite.net/graphs/code... looks like the bulk of the code was added 2 - 4 years ago.