15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-e8e83705b5c8d3b7.js"],"Posts"] 16:T743,Hi HN — my previous post got flagged for some reason so re-posting to spread the word as well as get some actionable feedback.

When I was a kid and was playing soccer in my home town, my Dad had an idea - what if there was a correlation between a successful soccer player in a specific position and the birth month - i.e., can we determine based on a player's month of birth if he could statistically become a good goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, or an attacker? Obviously, back then the data was hard to come by and I did not think too much about it until recently.

Now, I'm my Dad's age when he vocalized the idea to me, he is still alive, and I felt an obligation to to build something to help him his own stats. That's main the reason I started to build the dataset for the World Cup API, which eventually grew as more data points were introduced. over a few weekends because LLMs are genuinely.

What you can find right now is - every World Cup since 1930, every group standing, every squad, every scorer, every match, every venue, etc. etc. etc.

In addition to the API, I've also wrapped it in an MCP and published it out for folks to play around and provide feedback.

I've also built a live sample dashboard if you want to preview without installing anything: https://api.zafronix.com/wc-explorer/

Otherwise, you can get started with a free API key takes 30 seconds, 1,000 req/day, no card. Repo + install: https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/zafronix/wc-mcp or find it on ChatGPT and Claude marketplace.

Like I said, looking for constructive feedback.

Thanks HN!

CSS Rhythmic Sizing Module Level 1

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

Can a Language Model Paint?

The Scrum decline: It's three years later, and I was right

Anthropic's Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

Show HN: I built a fair-price checker App for home repairs using BLS wage data

I Think I Figured Out What an AI IDE Looks Like

Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes (2003)

The Human Body's Hidden Pathways

People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2014)

Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room

Show HN: World Cup History MCP – every FIFA tournament 1930–2026

Show HN: I built a fair-price checker for home repairs using BLS wage data

Piping terminal output to the browser using systemfd

60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster

Design of metabolism-inspired hydrogels driven by emergence of function

I rebuilt the Million Dollar Homepage 20 years later

Great Trigonometrical Survey

Recursion and the STP Macro Processor

Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments

$70 Should Be the Most Worrying Number for LNG

The Anti-Singularity – LessWrong

LLMs Are a Siren Song

EU weighs restricting use of U.S. cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data

The Brag Doc

Mini Shai-Hulud has crossed from NPM into PyPI

Kamy- PDF and e-signature API for AI agents (now on Cursor Directory)

The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed (2008)

The Underlying Purpose of AI