Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Trying to pollute unethical America PAC's database with synthetic data
Before starting, i posted about america pac's unethical data collection a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139801 Please read the linked cnbc's story, it explains almost everything there Long story short, america pac collects user data while lying and hiding its true intentions. Apparently, the data they collect might (and probably will be) used for door to door canvassing for donald trump. I find this deeply unethical and shady. I thought a nice idea to waste door to door canvasser's time was to pollute the database with fake names, fake emails... i've…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Trying to pollute unethical America PAC's database with synthetic data launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…
2022 · stylometry.net · its alternatives →
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DataFairy▲113Generate real looking fake data for your tests and demos
2018 · skillpanel.com · its alternatives →
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Fake User Info▲108Create 'real' fake user profiles for test and demo purposes
2021 · fakeuserinfo.softr.app · its alternatives →
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A "disinformation dashboard" tracking Russian propaganda
2017 · its alternatives →
- 6RE
The sale of personal information by the government is something that has always really bothered me. This is a bill I drafted that would stop the DMV, voter registration, property tax records, and the post office from selling or publishing without explicit user consent. It would also require personal information to be accompanied with the provenance of that data. This way, a user can track down who or what is publishing their data and take action to end their relationship with that company. I would appreciate any feedback, because I am sure I am missing some second and third order effects…
2022 · its alternatives →
- 7IM
The idea is to share data-based insights about sexual life I’ve worked in SexEd startups, and it’s wild that humanity doesn’t have this data. Most major academic studies have focused on sex primarily from a health and reproduction perspective, leaving many important and interesting questions unexplored (for many reasons) To promote transparency, the anonymous data will be open-sourced, allowing researchers, students and anyone interested to analyze it
2025 · worldsexmap.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, everyone! Lately, I've been working on quite a few applications that require a database, and as a result, I need some data to test everything. It has always taken me a lot of time to ask ChatGPT to generate fake data for me, so I decided to create a tool for developers called FakeData. FakeData allows developers to generate fake data easily with a simple UI/UX and customizable fields. This data can be used in their applications to test various functionalities. P.S. The app is not yet finished, and I would love to hear your honest feedback on it. Please be brutally honest about what…
2025 · fakedata-mu.vercel.app · its alternatives →
- 9BA
This site was set up in response to the HN story about a site getting taken down by another site that had the gall to plagiarize it then issue a DMCA. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5174121
2013 · dmcainjury.com · its alternatives →
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Construisons ensemble un tableau de bord de données neutres et vérifiables
2022 · lafrance.enchiffres.fr · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, So we made this site with the goal of funding a lobbyist to represent the 99%. The money comes from small pledges of $5 and up. So far we've raised nearly $10k in under a week. We're focusing fund raising efforts on causes. I'm the founder and lead developer, and I'd love to hear this community's thoughts on the project as well as answer any questions. Thanks guys! http://www.wethelobby.com/
2012 · wethelobby.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built this after seeing several references to Election Truth Alliance on social media, and after reading their analysis, I just couldn't get the problems I saw in it out of my head. So I downloaded the data, and rebuilt their full analysis from scratch. Their critical error is a simple misunderstanding of the Law of Large Numbers: values collected in large samples converge to the true probability in the sample distribution. (not to be confused with the Law of Very Large Numbers: which states that unlikely things happen given enough time. That confused me too) Technical Details: - No…
2025 · sullivan.zip · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I have been working on using the info-gathering and truth-seeking properties of the markets to get more honest reporting on all sort of things. The idea is to have a market game where people can wager a fake currency on what think is true and then, the citizen reviews the crowd-sourced information and makes a judgement about which position has the best case. It is crowd-sourced journalism with a market game. Please let me know what you think and my email is [email protected], if you have any questions.
2025 · thecitizen.io · its alternatives →
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Shady URL▲34Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frighten
2014 · shadyurl.com · its alternatives →
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I'm sure you all saw the debate a few days ago, alongside all the tech influencoors giving their mid-takes about politics. Doesn't it get tiring? That's why I built mindfirewall a chrome extension that uses AI to filter out tweets. You'll never have to see politics, war, or negativity on your timeline again. In the future you'll be shocked you even allowed this stuff into your brain in the first place. Let me know what you think below, does it feel too much like censorship? would you use this?
2024 · mindfw.com · its alternatives →
- 17PA
I have been building a Blazor WASM enterprise app for a few years now. I wanted a break from it and had an idea for a side project that had been in the back of my mind for a few years. A daily political poll where anyone can participate and privacy is a product, not a checkbox. This is how it works. One question per day about current events. Agree or Disagree. Each poll runs for 24 hours (midnight to midnight ET) and then close permanently. You do not need an account to vote. The main idea is to capture sentiment at a specific point in time, before the news cycle moves on and people's…
Feb 2026 · polliticalscience.vote · its alternatives →
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I wanted a way for people to support companies and people that align with their political beliefs. Additionally, I think it can serve as a valuable, source-linked public ledger of who said and did what over time, especially as incentives change and people try to rewrite their positions. This is fully AI-coded, researched, and sourced. Additionally, AI helped develop the scoring system. The evidence gathering is done by a number of different agents through OpenRouter that gather and classify source-backed claims. The point of that is not to pretend bias disappears, but to avoid me manually…
Mar 2026 · magaornot.ai · its alternatives →
- 19PF
Hi there Hacker News, I've started a side project http://datasourcehub.com which aims to be a platform for data scientists. The project is still in the idea phase so the UI/UX and functionality are all subject to change. Feel free to play around, below is a guest login, and make sure files are content type of 'text/csv'. All data is subject to deletion, it's just a sandbox right now! By reaching out to the Hacker News community I hope to reach expert data scientists and get their feedback. Below are some questions I'd like to answer and some proposed directions that this…
2013 · its alternatives →
- 20WB
We have been working on the Charting Chaos podcast (currently only available on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chartingchaos?_t=8d7RtZh51Rq&_r=1) and encountered some traction. We have been building the Charting Chaos forum to give a place for healthcare providers to connect with each other in a private, verified way. The idea is that your license number is required when creating an account so we can verify asynchronously that users are genuine, healthcare workers. Let us know what you think!
2023 · chartingchaos.com · its alternatives →
- 21IM
Wanna impress your audience but don’t have enough money for a lambo? Fake it till you make it with a phony MRR dashboard! This might just look like I'm taking the piss, but I see this as an artistic statement about the latest trend of posting fake/embellished marketing content
2024 · usegravity.app · its alternatives →
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Needed this in my own work, anonymizing PII/PHI and decided to build this because presidio didn't really cut it for our use-case. Try it and maybe let me know if you have any feedback :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Y’all are great. It is so fun to build things these days. I wanna show off this archive that I conjured to run at home for consuming the recently releases of UFO files from the US government. This started as a Mac Mini-hosted project that I executed with my OpenClaw over Discord. After showing this to a few friends, I decided to get it online and find a catchy domain. Cloudflare was the perfect hosting choice. There’s a lot of bonkers things out there going on, so I added human curated “Signals” - news, analysis and discussion of UFO and adjacent news. The backlog of signals was…
Jun 2026 · didyousee.xyz · its alternatives →
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