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AI powered daily tracker of the US slide into authoritarianism

Details

External ID
46754573
Source
HN
Company
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Product
AI powered daily tracker of the US slide into authoritarianism
Website domain
worstdaysofar.com
Launched
Jan. 25, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.09617918313570488
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Authoritarian regimes create crises to saturate our attentionAI can help us fight back by tracking and prioritizing threats to our freedom250+ types of events tracked daily from national coverageCompletely automated and community fundedhttps://www.worstdaysofar.com/Example Daily Situation Report:SITREP - Authoritarian Consolidation (Last Update Jan 24, 7:11 PM)New TodayTactics: Scene access denial -- federal teams block state investigators after lethal force incidents (Minneapolis)Violence/Detention: Border Patrol lethal force -- urban shooting escalates risk during routine immigration operations (Minneapolis) • Stun grenades and tear gas -- crowd control spikes after shootings, raising bystander injury risk (Minneapolis)New YesterdayTactics: Generic POLICE vests -- misidentification enables federal teams to evade accountability during grabs (Minnesota)Lawfare: Grant drawdown toggles -- federal health funding access paused to enforce priority compliance (US) • Sealing special-counsel report -- privilege claims used to suppress scrutiny of executive misconduct (US)Disinformation: National parks passes with leader portrait -- voiding altered passes coerces visible loyalty (US) • Geofenced ICE recruitment memes -- wartime branding accelerates staffing for enforcement surges (US)New This Week ... ...

Enrichment

Theme
Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
Vertical
Government
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2C
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
authoritarianism tracker for citizens
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is an automated news aggregator that ingests RSS/news feeds, classifies them into predefined event categories using an LLM API, and displays the summary on a static Quarto/web dashboard.

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Attention rank: #20 of 21 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 64 days after the earliest competitor.

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