Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records
Hi HN. I'm the president and founder of a small non-profit called Reclaim The Records that identifies historical and genealogical materials and data sets held by government agencies, archives, and libraries -- and then returns them to the public domain, for free public use. Back in September 2017, our organization made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) asking for a copy of a database they maintain called "BIRLS", which stands for the Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem. While it's not exactly an index of every…
Reclaim The Records is a non-profit organization that retrieves historical and genealogical data from government agencies and makes them freely available to the public. Through FOIA requests, the organization obtained… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally motivated. I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in research in the interim.
Nov 2025 · searchepsteinfiles.com · its alternatives →
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https://pardonned.com Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily. Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a static website from the sqlite db All code is open source and available on Github.
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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2017 · nslarchive.org · its alternatives →
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2014 · slaverystories.org · its alternatives →
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Delete data that Facebook has collected on you
2018 · about.fb.com · its alternatives →
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Discover Clippings: Your Modern Classified Ad Archive. Effortlessly save, organize, and revisit online classified ads, just like Craigslist, with our powerful archival tool. Never lose valuable listings again.
2023 · clippings.june07.com · its alternatives →
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🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but nothing that covered ordinary people or even most people like freedmen and slaves. So I ended up building a pipeline to process the more than 500k Latin inscriptions in the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/en/ and extract the names of people (and attempt to cluster them, but this is a work in progress). There are databases where Classicists have done this manually for…
Jun 2026 · new.roman-names.com · its alternatives →
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A chrome extension to help you find profiles you browsed.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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We scraped a South Florida county public database, to better understand the behaviors of local law enforcement and even individual police officers.
2020 · lawsuit.org · its alternatives →
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This project is a tool for engineers who live in the terminal and are tired of losing their command history to ephemeral servers or fragmented `.bash_history` files. If you’re jumping between dozens of boxes, many of which might be destroyed an hour later, your "local memory" (the history file) is essentially useless. This tool builds a centralized, permanent brain for your shell activity, ensuring that a complex one-liner you crafted months ago remains accessible even if the server it ran on is long gone. The core mechanism wants to be a "zero-touch" capture that happens at the connection…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A classic-OS-inspired public disclosure shell for browsing war.gov/UFO Release 01 by folder, source, date, location, and collated incident reports.
May 2026 · hypergrid.systems · its alternatives →
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Google Chrome Extension. Record All Browsing in Screenshots & Full Text. Search For Anything At Any Time. Never Forget Where You Read Something. Saves Everything To Your Machine, Not the Cloud, So Your Web History Stays With You. - idibidiart/AllSeeingEye
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · archiveweb.page · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, As many of you already know, Google has discontinued their coding competitions and is shutting down the competitions website. Before it's gone forever, I've scraped everything I could from their website and set up my own archive. (Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Google besides participating in these contests years ago) While the initial version was ready back in March, today I'm rolling out big and hopefully the final update, so this might be a good time to share it with the HN community. Everything is static HTML and SQLite archives (with a very minimal backend to serve files…
2023 · zibada.guru · its alternatives →
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History Monk▲70Fast History Search, Export & Bulk Delete
14d ago · historymonk.com · its alternatives →
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Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub https://github.com/rcaloras/bashhub-client - nicksherron/bashhub-server
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find information, resources and relevant links for rpgp.org. This domain may be for sale.
2010 · rpgp.org · its alternatives →
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Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44c65b5779d9d8021e002584fa73740f36d052a6&dn=10m_hn_comments_sorted Go to https://hn-archive.appspot.com/ for the torrent file / source code. I'll be semi-frequently checking the story and answering any questions which may come up.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I have been working on this project for a while, and I think this solves a problem that a lot of people here have: not being able to easily search Discord servers. Currently, I only scrape servers that are marked as "discoverable" on Discord. However, if there's enough interest in the project, I'm open to adding specific servers by request. I'm primarily focused on informational servers rather than casual hangout spaces, such as open source projects, Minecraft mods, and support communities for tools, services, or platforms (for example, hosting providers). I have placed restrictions…
2025 · searchcord.io · its alternatives →
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