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Show HN: NewsCatcher's Hyperlocal News API – Granular City-Level News Feeds We’ve launched NewsCatcher’s Hyperlocal News API to provide city-level news feeds for market analysis, localized apps, and data analytics. Why We Built It: Aggregating hyperlocal news is complex. Local news comes from diverse sources, many covering national topics, making it hard to isolate local events like transit updates, crime, extreme weather alerts, or infrastructure projects. Searching by location alone can lead to irrelevant results, especially with city names that overlap or match common words (e.g., Orange, Lake). What It Does: Our API provides precise, location-based news by processing 185K articles daily and tagging each with its associated_town down to the town level with 92% accuracy. Covering 31,000 U.S. locations, it uses advanced NLP to accurately associate location names, even when they’re common words. It enables you to: - Access near-real-time, location-focused news feeds - Filter by top...

Show HN: Krixik – Easily sequence small/specialized AI models (pip-installable) Our initial intention was to experiment with a smartbook idea, but we couldn't find a good prototyping tool for small/specialized AI models. That rabbit hole took us through vector databases, through infra for small AI, and finally here. We’re particularly proud of the accessibility/simplicity of our code syntax. Krixik’s model library is limited to eleven model types (modules) and a few dozen models, but we will significantly expand it. Other enhancements, like a local client and several 3rd-party integrations, are also planned. You require API credentials to try Krixik. You can quickly get them through this form: https://ift.tt/013RxOa And here’s a demo video (our YouTube channel also has a couple dozen example videos in it): https://youtu.be/WpSSYLfvfdM https://ift.tt/hCwuGmP November 4, 2024 at 08:33PM

Show HN: HN Push – Web push notifications for top stories on Hacker News I created HN Push to help reduce the urge to refresh Hacker News constantly. Since I rely on HN for real-time tech news, I wanted an efficient way to stay informed without having to check the site. Receiving summaries with Apple Intelligence was an added bonus. The source code is available on GitHub[^1]. [^1]: https://ift.tt/7Mpqkvh https://www.hnpush.com November 4, 2024 at 07:17PM

Show HN: Directional antenna alignment using phone motion sensors https://ift.tt/fR2xA5I November 3, 2024 at 08:25PM

Show HN: I wrote a techno-thriller on AI and need feedback (no signup) https://ift.tt/FiR2mYh November 3, 2024 at 10:14PM

Show HN: Outcheckr- Webpage outbound link enumerator with threading Outcheckr enumerates all outbound links present in a webpage, now faster with multi-threading support. https://ift.tt/aJjcs5k November 3, 2024 at 09:52PM