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America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here

49 pointsby 1h agoamerica.gov
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24m agoHN ↗

Your NIH is showing: usa.gov already existed

23m agoHN ↗

USA.gov = 800KB

america.gov = 25MB (before you start scrolling)

Feels janky too.

23m agoHN ↗

The Whitehouse learned about vibecoding. See this and arcade.gov.

Also, what?? https://america.gov/privacy

At least realfood.gov was decent [1].

Shouldn't the government websites work on very slow internet connections?

Where's the source code for these websites? First of all, if they are vibe coded by government employees they have to be open source, and secondly, if they are vibe coded (even by a contractor), then they can't be copyrighted.

[1] https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/04/national-design-...

13m agoHN ↗

arcade.gov has "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande" game, wtf's wrong with you America these days?

It seems like a pretty crappy idea for a game funded with public money. It's a bad joke about a real, nuanced problem where people are actually losing their lives. What will be next? 'Hit that Iranian school' the game?

21m agoHN ↗

Love that the "chat" functionality is just throwing 429s too. Unusable.

20m agoHN ↗

"I don’t determine whether a country is committing war crimes, and I don’t list alleged crimes against Israel or any other government. That would be legal and political commentary, which I don’t provide."

18m agoHN ↗

"America.gov keeps your data private."

I initially read this as "keeps your private data".

17m agoHN ↗

and keeps your privacy protected

yeah right, the agency behind this still features ed "big balls" coristine on their website

2m agoHN ↗

Protected from bears. It's very safe from bears. As to any other unauthorized access.. No logging, no unauthorized access. Very simple.

14m agoHN ↗

I need my government to be run by some functioning adults, is that on this website?

6m agoHN ↗

I haven't tried this but in principle I think this sort of finding a needle in a haystack situation (finding the correct path to assistance in a government service) is one of the rare circumstances where a well-crafted chatbot can be genuinely useful rather than just irritating.

5m agoHN ↗

I tried to get it to generate code but it says that's forbidden by its system prompt. However, it was happy to recommend Python modules for accessing api.data.gov.

3m agoHN ↗

I like the voice button that isn't actually a button, but just an icon.

2m agoHN ↗

OK, there's a lot of negative comments here, but this is a great idea at a high level. It really is hard to figure out where to do a thing and it's also very easy to get phished. If they can figure out how to help people get all the services they're eligible for that'll be an amazing improvement for the people.