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Show HN: Groundhog AI Spring API (groundhog-day.com)

58 points by pcraig3 ↗ HN
For anyone building weather-related AI apps, I am releasing an exciting iteration on last year’s model.

My Groundhog API is trained on 130 years of data and makes use of 82 separate data sources. Similar to DeepSeek, it is completely open source and free to use.

The primary use case is to make inferences about whether spring will come early or not, using a Mixture of Exports (MoE) approach, but surely others can be found if you are creative.

Other use cases: - All predicting groundhogs - Where they all live - Whether they are “real” groundhogs or imposters

Excited to see what people do with it!

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pvg
A thread on the pre-AI enterprise-capable variant from 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34630409
swyx
i'm sorry what is enterprise ready about this? wheres the soc2 certification? wheres the single sign on/active directory? do you even have audit hogs? fundamentally unserious.
pcraig3
It handles hundreds of thousands of requests a day, that's pretty good!

But you are right, SOC2 is the next step for sure.

sergie_did_it
thats awesome, do you just love groundhogs or whats your motivation to supply such a service?
loloquwowndueo
Someone who’s trying to use AI to put groundhogs out of a job does NOT love them. At all.
pcraig3
The job of Prognosticating Groundhog has weathered many technical revolutions: I don't think AI is going to be the one that puts them out of business.
gostsamo
Today is groundhog's day. There is a movie about it. :)
throw_away32
One of the few movies that I don't mind watching again every few years
skeeter2020
#TIL in Canada it was bears that were historically the predictors of an early or late spring; in US it was groundhogs (or ground squirrels). (Likely) Ameriican newspapers pushing their "biased groundhog agenda" across the border in the early 1900's and a lack of a strong understanding of where the bear-thing came from (first nations? the french? no one really knew) prevented a patriotic pushback. Perhaps the first occurance of the US cultural tidal wave the continues to sweep over Canada?
rokob
Thank you for your service.
jarvuschris
Such an over-engineered API and then you use 1 and 0 instead of boolean for the fundamentally boolean thing that's the whole fking point lol, I'm out
pcraig3
Sorry to hear you are out.

I've found "T/F" vals are not always portable between languages ("True" in Python vs "true" in JS) whereas integer comparisons are always interpreted correctly.

bakugo
> I've found "T/F" vals are not always portable between languages ("True" in Python vs "true" in JS)

What? Booleans are booleans, they are converted to/from the language's boolean type when you encode/decode to JSON.

TuringNYC
Love this! Please ignore the negative comments, this is great.

This is actually a great, approachable service to teach my teen child about APIs and data services.

pcraig3
Like Phil, I always assume the negative comments have a 35% accuracy rating.

I hope your child builds the next unicorn startup using this API!

btown
> enterprise-level documentation before rolling out your GaaP (Groundhogs as a Platform) strategy

Do you develop a rack-mounted standalone appliance in case we need an Air GaaP solution?

pcraig3
You can try and run it yourself but you are going to need Stargate-level hardware to do it.