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Show HN: A new approach to voter guides (human and AI) – CA Prop 50 example

https://www.fairmind.org/guides/california-proposition-50-2025
1•quadtree•2h ago
I built a new kind of voter guide you can read directly or explore conversationally with AI. It's a prototype with California's Proposition 50 (special election Nov 4) as the test case.

For pragmatic reasons, it uses a Custom GPT for the AI (direct API integration is currently cost-prohibitive at scale for a public-service project). Assume better AI integration scenarios in the future (browser side-panel, better API economics, etc). But the more fundamental concept is, any integration scenario will need a highly curated, issue-specific knowledge source (the guide content and format).

Would love feedback on the content format (organization, depth, balance), overall concept, and user experience.

Other context for those interested...

Audience: People who want to think through issues for themselves at reasonable cost to their time and sanity.

Problem: Public debate is dominated by advocacy rhetoric—facts twisted to fit narratives, nuance lost to slogans. No one enjoys sifting through that noise for signal. And AI assistants trained on (or searching) the discourse can end up echoing the distortions, or diluting valid arguments along with invalid ones while attempting balance.

Approach: Provide highly curated, balanced, and verified content for informed decision-making. Structure content both for people to read and for their AI assistants to use conversationally. Prompt the AI for strict adherence to guide content in presenting arguments and key facts.

Ransomware profits drop as victims stop paying hackers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-profits-drop-as-victims-stop-paying-hac...
1•speckx•34s ago•0 comments

Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM
1•nhhvhy•36s ago•0 comments

Germany's Porsche pauses shift to EVs as profits tank [video]

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-porsche-pauses-shift-to-evs-as-profits-tank/video-74493792
1•prmph•1m ago•0 comments

Start Your LLC – Step-by-step guide

https://fromzerotollc.com
1•erayalakese•1m ago•0 comments

Amazon Plans to Cut 30k Corporate Jobs, Reuters Reports

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/amazon-plans-to-cut-30-000-corporate-jobs-reut...
3•bugbuddy•3m ago•2 comments

MNML – Android Launcher First Open Testing Release

1•tuxxness•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should YouTube have an "AI free" content label system?

1•andrewstuart•7m ago•0 comments

Don't Move the Data

https://parallelprogrammer.substack.com/p/dont-move-the-data
1•ryandotsmith•7m ago•0 comments

Day Off Leave Tracker Promocode for Startups

https://day-off.app/
1•hazemtorab•8m ago•0 comments

The Floppotron: Sweet Dreams (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw&list=RDoGfkPCZYfFw
1•mpweiher•9m ago•0 comments

Modulo Bias

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10812
1•grep_it•9m ago•0 comments

The Only Important Technology is the Internet

https://kevinlu.ai/the-only-important-technology-is-the-internet
1•kayleegeorge•10m ago•0 comments

Fitbit's personal health coach in public preview is here

https://blog.google/products/fitbit/personal-health-coach-public-preview/
1•ChrisArchitect•11m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD Celebrates the Milestone of Reproducible Builds and No Root Needed

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Goes-Reproducible
2•mikece•12m ago•1 comments

AI for Generating 2D Animations

https://abishekmuthian.com/ai-for-generating-2d-animations/
1•Abishek_Muthian•12m ago•0 comments

Mercor, the AI Startup Fueling ChatGPT's Expertise, Is Now Valued at $10B

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-startup-fueling-chatgpts-expertise-is-now-valued-at-10-billion...
2•bookofjoe•12m ago•1 comments

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/aws_outage_myths_reality/
2•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TrueType Rasterizer

https://github.com/StanislavPetrov15/TT_Rasterizer
1•s_petrov•13m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/
2•marcodiego•13m ago•1 comments

GitHub Action to Setup KubeSolo

https://github.com/fenio/setup-kubesolo
2•fenio•14m ago•0 comments

Announcing data collection consent changes for new Firefox extensions

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/10/23/data-collection-consent-changes-for-new-firefox-extens...
2•naves•15m ago•0 comments

Infrastructure Should Be Inferred, Not Written (and LLMs Are Why)

https://www.ivan.codes/thoughts/llms-application-code-vs-terraform
3•dohguy•15m ago•0 comments

We Made a Site to Help You Save 90% on Colognes

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1•StochasticScent•15m ago•1 comments

The Great Arizona Copper Strike, 1983-1986 (2018)

https://uapress.arizona.edu/2018/08/on-the-great-arizona-copper-strike-1983-1986
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
3•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clarisu – AI Educational Podcasts

1•janpmz•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mainn – a calendar that merges tasks, meetings, events, and social life

https://mainn.app
1•AndreiBargan•21m ago•0 comments

We Almost Found Chromium's Bug via Crash Reports to Report URI

https://www.troyhunt.com/how-we-almost-found-chromiums-bug-via-crash-reports-to-report-uri/
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Addendum to GPT-5 System Card: Sensitive Conversations

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card-sensitive-conversations/
2•wertyk•23m ago•0 comments

Allegations Microsoft misled users into price hikes for AI assistant

https://www.afr.com/technology/accc-alleges-microsoft-misled-users-into-price-hikes-for-ai-assist...
2•asdefghyk•23m ago•2 comments