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Show HN: Mytake.org – Git for journalism (and tonight's debate)

8 pointsby etwiggover 4 years ago

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etwiggover 4 years ago
I&#x27;ve been working on this with a couple friends for the past few years. We took every videotaped presidential debate in history, synced the transcripts with the video, and made it all searchable. If you highlight a snippet of a debate and post it to social media, we generate a fancy image of the text as the thumbnail. Once somebody clicks your post, they can see the full context it was taken from.<p>Our original idea was (and is) to something like medium or substack, except the authors can only link to finite set of facts. It&#x27;s more interesting read someone you disagree with if you at least agree on some of the facts. We ran out of time, so today we&#x27;re releasing just the parts that work.<p>An interesting piece is that we serve all of our facts straight out of GitHub (proxied behind an HTTP cache, of course). So you can git blame typos and corrections, etc.<p>We&#x27;re really eager to find more committers, so take a look and drop me a line if you&#x27;d like to get involved!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mytakedotorg&#x2F;mtdo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;95af2d1b8c24eaeec173ecb37f2ec1abe69bc6ae&#x2F;server&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java&#x2F;controllers&#x2F;FactApi.java#L83-L87" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mytakedotorg&#x2F;mtdo&#x2F;blob&#x2F;95af2d1b8c24eaeec1...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mytakedotorg&#x2F;us-presidential-debates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mytakedotorg&#x2F;us-presidential-debates</a>
rekkenmarkover 4 years ago
I followed this before it was live. Super-extensive work.