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kyleleelarsonon Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever

My immediate (incorrect) association upon seeing the words "Dark Star" on HN was with the Grateful Dead song, which is about 56 years old. The Live/Dead version was a true epiphany for me, now 18 years ago. After really only liking the late 60s Dead for about a decade I have apparently aged into liking their later stuff. There is a nice live video of Dark Star from 1974 on YouTube: search "Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Winterland 10/18/74)".

kyleleelarsonon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah I scraped the annual reports from the SEC website, and built a database of the results. Lots of malformed xml to deal with

kyleleelarsonon Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps

I am curious why the term "fiber optic" seems to have declined in popularity, as least when it comes to big companies' annual reports: see https://searchsecdata.com/search?stockindex=S%26P+500&search...

kyleleelarsonon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

www.searchsecdata.com, like "google trends" for 10-k filings that public companies submit to the SEC. Currently supports full-text search on almost all 10-k filings for current S&P 500 and Russell 2000 companies for the last 20 years.

kyleleelarsonon Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

I am working on a somewhat similar project, for searching items 1 and 1a in 10-k annual reports, that I am hoping to release in the near future. I would be interested to hear what lessons you end up learning about scaling up to handle the interest you got from HN.