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It would be really nice to be able to download the a CSV of voting for each presidential election broken by county or zip code or something of the sort. My google skills are not good enough. Does anyone know of such a data source?

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Article URL: https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf

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If you're an investor, what do you like your startups to tell you?

If you're a founder, what do you like to report up to your board, and what do you like to discuss with them?

What are your "standard agenda items" besides acceptance of the minutes and votes on stock grants?

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Hey HN, we are Max, Kieran, and Aahel from Midship (https://midship.ai). Midship makes it easy to extract data from unstructured documents like pdfs and images.

Here’s a video showing it in action: https://www.loom.com/share/ae43b6abfcc24e5b82c87104339f2625?..., and a demo playground (no signup required!) to test it out: https://app.midship.ai/demo

We started 5 months ago initially trying to make an AI natural language workflow builder that would be a simpler alternative to Zapier or Make.com. However, most of our users seemed to be much more interested in the basic (and not very good) document extraction feature we had. Seeing how people were spending hours a day manually extracting data from pdfs inspired us to build what has become Midship!

The problem is that despite all our progress in software, huge amounts of business data still lives in PDFs and images. Sure, you can OCR them, but getting clean, structured data out is still painful. Most existing tools just give you a blob of markdown - leaving you to figure out which parts matter and how they relate.

We've found that combining OCR with language models lets us do something more useful: extract specific fields and tables that users actually care about. The LLMs help correct OCR mistakes and understand context (like knowing that "Inv#" and "Invoice Number" mean the same thing).

We have two main kinds of users today, non-technical users that extract data via our web app and developers who use our extraction api. We were initially focused on the first one as they seemed like an underserved part of the market, but we’ve received a lot of interest from developers who face the same issues.

For pricing, we currently charge a monthly Saas fee per seat for the web app and a volume based pricing for the API.

We’re really excited to share what we’ve built so far and look forward to any feedback from the community!

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/79fedc1c-579d-4b23-8404-e4cb9e7bbae3

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Article URL: https://rknight.me/blog/thinking-about-recipe-formats-more-than-anyone-should/

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I recently needed a blog for my recent Next.js app, and wanted something that would look really nice and that could be integrated into my existing Next.js app to keep deployment simple and to give me more control over how it's hosted and configured.

My goal was to get something that looked very slick, using modern CSS styling and rich client-side effects that would look great on desktop and mobile, and most importantly, something that would be very easy and convenient for me to create new blog posts and edit existing posts.

So I had the idea of using GitHub as the CMS and just writing the posts using markdown with some extra metadata at the beginning, and then basically parsing that into html/css. I know there are some other projects that do something similar, but mine is very minimal and easy to integrate into a project without a lot of configuration.

It ended up working really well, so I decided to turn it into a standalone open-source project, which you can see here:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/nextjs-github-markdown-...

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24288948/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-review-cpu-processor-benchmark-test

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