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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Arguing that broadband internet saves lives reminds me of the argument that Jesus saves lives and the love of Jesus must be spread around the world.
Comment · 3 months ago
How could this not end poorly? I cant think of one realistic scenario where there world benefits.
Comment · 3 months ago
WWII? Fabius did this to Hannibal more than a thousand years ago. The core of his strategy was to dunk on supplies, stall, and have the Carthaginians run out of food.
I imagine Iran, Ukraine, and Russia all know about Fabian strategy.
Comment · 3 months ago
Meta helps gov w surveillance, so they won't be hit w a $1.4T damage. I imagine a few mil could come out of this tho.
Comment · 4 months ago
My mobile is a Motorola as well!
Comment · 4 months ago
it may benefit: children, social media, marketing, police state, ai, data brokers, and many others
does it benefit you?
Comment · 4 months ago
I think the affiliate links are fine and the wholesale plagiarism is unlawful at best and likely criminal.
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree with you and am acknowledging that knowledge is power and controlled by the powerful.
Comment · 4 months ago
If anything it'd be free for approved partners. Think large legal firms, language model data collectors, etc
Comment · 4 months ago
"trust me bro"
Comment · 4 months ago
Speculation: It probably is just for money. Then the ppl buying, at least some of them, are likely to be engaging in the type of activity described.
Comment · 4 months ago
Hi HN,
I built Trace Jobs Core API, a data API for querying job postings from structured machine-readable sources.
You can try it immediately with the sandbox command: https://kaleh.net/trace/#trynow
It returns current job data without requiring an account.
I built this because job data ingestion tends to become the same maintenance problem repeatedly:
- scraping HTML pages
- fixing parsers after frontend changes
- mapping inconsistent fields
- deduplicating the same postings across sources
Trace takes a different approach.
It ingests public machine-readable job feeds, translates them into a consistent format, and exposes the records through an API.
The core idea is: do not guess.
If a source provides a structured field, we normalize it where the mapping is clear. If a field is ambiguous or unavailable, the original value is preserved.
The goal is clean, predictable data without forcing our own interpretation layer into the pipeline.
No scraping. No LLM extraction. No inferred metadata. No rewriting upstream intent.
Current index:
- 9,800+ structured feeds
- ~13k new postings/day
- daily refresh at 06:00 UTC
- Schema.org JobPosting records
- SHA-256 deduplication
- RFC 8785 canonicalization
Examples with real daily-refreshed HTML and JSON responses: https://kaleh.net/trace/examples.html
API documentation: https://kaleh.net/trace/docs.html
I’d appreciate feedback from anyone interested in the problem and especially people who have built:
- job boards and aggregators
- labor market analytics tools
- search/RAG systems
- data ingestion pipelines
Especially interested in how others approach source reliability, normalization, and preserving meaning when upstream data is inconsistent.
A note of thanks: this project exists because of the support of my family and friends, the people I've learned from in IRC communities, and the broader open source community. I am grateful to everyone who builds, maintains, documents, and shares the tools and standards that make projects like this possible.
I’ll be around to answer questions.
What's exciting to me is that the existence of such a planet provides fuel for more research into the field.