Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm
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HN · launched May 12, 2026 · 26 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 150 launches in digital history and reference archives →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a frontend document viewer presenting scraped public declassified UFO files formatted into a continuous microfilm-style reader canvas.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Qwen3 VL for local document analysis, Windows File Explorer type viewer, WAR.GOV hosted files
Concerns raised: Processing speed of local VL models (15-30 seconds per image), Lack of experience with local LLM implementation
Feature requests: Chronological list view of all files including future drops, Annotation layer for community markup and tagging, Linking system to connect related files across documents, Expand to include other types of declassified file sections
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 144 days after the earliest competitor.
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