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Show HN: Civic Compass – Find which govt offices serve your address in India

https://cc.zencitizen.in/
2•abhikvarma•1h ago
We built this after someone on Reddit asked "What's the DRO for Koramangala?" (DRO = District Registrar Office, needed for property transactions in India). Turns out there was no way to find this. Bangalore has five DROs but no public mapping of which areas they cover.

We then realised the same problem exists for almost every civic service: ward offices, police stations, electricity boards, water supply. Citizens have no easy way to know which office handles their area.

Enter an address, get all relevant civic bodies for that location. Currently live for Bengaluru only.

Tech stack: Go backend, React frontend. We load GeoJSON boundary files into memory and do point-in-polygon queries.

The main bottleneck to expanding is data. Government boundary data is scattered, inconsistent, and often requires RTI requests. We've included an RTI template in the repo for anyone who wants to help add their city.

Would love feedback on: - Is the UI/UX clear? - Ideas for sourcing boundary data at scale - The API design for adding cities (see CONTRIBUTING.md)

Happy to answer questions about navigating Indian bureaucracy or the technical implementation.

Show HN: Zonformat– 35–60% fewer LLM tokens using zero-overhead notation

https://zonformat.org
1•ronibhakta•5m ago•0 comments

The reality of living overseas [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcWuqKhsGg
1•keepamovin•9m ago•0 comments

I built a tiny API that detects champion loss in B2B SaaS

https://github.com/malukutty/champion-drift-detector-api
1•bhaviav100•10m ago•1 comments

It Is Possible to Import PST Contacts into My Android Phone

1•JonaScott•10m ago•0 comments

Solving SQL Bolt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVePlwTa14
1•implabinash•11m ago•1 comments

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/technology/ai-slop-sora-social-media.html
1•insane_dreamer•11m ago•2 comments

Show HN: I built a "Netflix-grade" retro game player for the browser(React+WASM)

https://github.com/muditjuneja/koin-deck-retro-player
1•beingmudit•17m ago•0 comments

My Apple notes should've been my journal

1•lolisimus•18m ago•0 comments

DHH and Open Source

https://ma.tt/2025/12/dhh-open-source/
6•software_writer•23m ago•0 comments

How Bad is Dialup Internet in 2025? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qyNFjZaQs
1•pabs3•27m ago•0 comments

Australia's social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce86381p70eo
3•tartoran•31m ago•0 comments

Brain activity changes throughout the day

https://news.umich.edu/how-brain-activity-changes-throughout-the-day/
1•XzetaU8•35m ago•0 comments

Forkable Swaps in AI generated food images for its catering partners

https://sf.eater.com/restaurant-news/210033/forkable-ai-generated-food-photos-catering
1•forthwall•37m ago•0 comments

Artificial Intelligence Index Report (2025) [pdf]

https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/hai_ai_index_report_2025.pdf
1•saikatsg•38m ago•0 comments

AI and recruitment: Are we in a race to the bottom?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced6jv76091o
1•1659447091•40m ago•0 comments

More proof of how good Gemini Live is [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XJufw4jPJ1w
2•sin4ch•50m ago•0 comments

Erdős Problem #1026

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-story-of-erdos-problem-126/
2•cgdl•57m ago•0 comments

Australia's peak mental health groups didn't want the teen social media ban

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/teen-social-media-ban-experts-concerns-suicide-content/
1•defrost•58m ago•1 comments

Time might not exist – and we're starting to understand why

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-closer-we-look-at-time-the-stranger-it-gets
4•philbo•59m ago•0 comments

Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj38ymeyg4mo
2•asplake•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Civic Compass – Find which govt offices serve your address in India

https://cc.zencitizen.in/
2•abhikvarma•1h ago•0 comments

Speed Reading (The Meaning of Language)

https://computer.rip/2025-12-08-speed-reading.html
1•aberoham•1h ago•1 comments

Art reveals the values that sustain lasting peace

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/26/world/art-and-how-to-make-peace/
2•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

An AI Visibility Deep Dive

https://amplitude.com/blog/ai-visibility-explained
1•linksku•1h ago•0 comments

Find food that fits your vibe

https://vibeeats.app
1•payanai•1h ago•0 comments

Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others?

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-are-we-curious-about-some-things-and-indifferent-to-others
1•rramadass•1h ago•0 comments

Notes on Motivation

https://jeremyjaydan.au/notes-on-motivation/
2•JeremyJaydan•1h ago•0 comments

A mutually incomprehensible AI communication system

https://www.hackster.io/misetteichan/a-mutually-incomprehensible-ai-conversation-system-ffd922
2•anigbrowl•1h ago•0 comments

How Cargo Ships Navigate the World’s Most Treacherous Bay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7aTdnu-GXc
1•alexchantavy•1h ago•0 comments

The state of enterprise AI [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/7ef17d82-96bf-4dd1-9df2-228f7f377a29/the-state-of-enterprise-ai_2025-r...
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments