The Answer You Didn't Want: Fiskardo Evacuation Routing
During a wildfire, how long does it take to move people out of Fiskardo by road? That was the question. It sounds like a database query, because it…
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14.6 million official exchange rates from 107 central banks and tax authorities, now on Hugging Face
If you have ever needed "the ECB rate on the invoice date" for a tax return, a customs form, a transfer-pricing file or an audit, you know the probl…
BBB.org's business data isn't in the HTML — it's in an analytics script tag
Quick answer BBB.org doesn't render business data into the HTML table it looks like it does. Both the search-results page and every business profile…
We open-sourced 449 real equipment financing quotes so nobody has to trust our math
We open-sourced 449 real equipment financing quotes so nobody has to trust our math Commercial equipment financing sites are almost always a black b…
Build a fresh trucking-insurance lead feed: every new US carrier with phone + email, updated weekly
When a trucking company registers with the FMCSA and gets its authority, the clock starts on a bunch of things it now legally has to buy: primary li…
Restaurant Health Inspection Data by City: APIs and Traps
Most large US cities publish restaurant inspections through the same Socrata Open Data API. That uniformity is a trap. The transport is identical; t…
We Tracked 143,424 AI Citations. Nearly Half Point Back to the Vendors Being Recommended
Why I started counting citations At Orbator we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok the same buyer-style questions — "best CRM for a 10…
CPSC Recall API: No Pagination and a Broken Hazard Filter
The example in the official docs returns zero results CPSC's Recalls Retrieval Web Services Programmers Guide, version 1.4 dated September 17, 2018,…
🚀 India Village Finder Introduces Farmer Schemes & Farm-Input Insights
Village Finder is an open-source, serverless, and multilingual map tracking over 78,000 villages across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Ta…
8 Free Food & Nutrition APIs (No Key, Tested 2026)
On July 8, 2026 I looked up a barcode that does not exist. Eight zeros. I sent them to Open Food Facts, the largest open nutrition database on the w…
10 Free Government APIs With No Key or Signup (2026)
On July 6, 2026 I asked REST Countries for the United States. It answered HTTP 200. Green light, ship it. Then I read the body: "success":false , "d…
sudo 'schland just give me my data
There's an old xkcd. Guy says "make me a sandwich." Gets refused. Says "sudo make me a sandwich." Gets a sandwich. I've been running the same play,…
I rebuilt a Texas city's open data portal in 30 minutes with Claude Code
The City of Kyle, TX has an open data portal. That already puts it ahead of most cities its size: budgets, investment reports, police data, water ut…
Who actually feels lost about Germany's new automatic platform and crypto tax reporting? (a pandas cut)
Since January 2026, if you sell on eBay or Vinted, rent a room on Airbnb, or trade on Coinbase or Bitpanda, the platform now reports your income str…
I cleaned India's Census 2011 data so you never have to
Every Indian data scientist hits the same wall. You need district-level population data. You go to censusindia.gov.in. You find hundreds of inconsis…