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And despite all of that this is an LLM comment, right?
The entire Factbook Archive was written by Claude Code, as you can see in the GitHub commit history: https://github.com/MilkMp/CIA-World-Factbooks-Archive-1990-2... AI is present everywhere these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if a OpenClaw bot autonomously create a project on GitHub and then submit it to HN, without any human involement.
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Hi there, I have located the root cause and will be fixing the issue: Root cause: CIA uses FIPS codes (CanonicalCode), which differ from ISO Alpha-2 for many countries. Templates and SQL queries prioritized CanonicalCode over ISOAlpha2, so URL codes like /archive/2025/AU matched the wrong country. Australia (AU) -> American Samoa (AS = CIA FIPS for Australia) Singapore (SG) -> Senegal (SG = CIA FIPS for Senegal) Germ…
Thanks for the follow up, I figured it was semantic collision. I noticed the “GM”. This is a good example of the importance of strong toping patterns. The GDP of Germany just tanked, we didn’t lose a mars climate orbiter this time. :)
This is clearly a vibe coded project. If I were to critique it taking its warm reception into consideration I wouldn’t necessarily call it slop. Slurry? Soup? A good portion of the discussion here are bug reports about things I could imagine someone who has experience in working with this sort of data would anticipate and address in the flow of development, whether on their own or with an LLM. Yes it is an ambitious…
edit: I mean, not the archive, that's golden! But a branch of usa propaganda being the stop gap provider on geographic data.
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Yep, all their comments are LLM output. As well as their alt https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ruhith Both accounts are used to advertise their website.
This is not AI slop, it’s advertise in LLM era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...
What is its copyright status?
The data from the CIA World Factbook is in the public domain (being a U.S. Government work) and is free for anyone to use. The ETL scripts and data tools available in the GitHub repository are open source and licensed under the MIT License. However, the web application itself is proprietary software, with all rights reserved.
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Hi there, I have located the root cause and will be fixing the issue: Root cause: CIA uses FIPS codes (CanonicalCode), which differ from ISO Alpha-2 for many countries. Templates and SQL queries prioritized CanonicalCode over ISOAlpha2, so URL codes like /archive/2025/AU matched the wrong country. Australia (AU) -> American Samoa (AS = CIA FIPS for Australia) Singapore (SG) -> Senegal (SG = CIA FIPS for Senegal) Germ…
Thanks for the follow up, I figured it was semantic collision. I noticed the “GM”. This is a good example of the importance of strong toping patterns. The GDP of Germany just tanked, we didn’t lose a mars climate orbiter this time. :)
Treating this as a neutral ground truth is a recipe for data poisoning