Hacker News: mektrik

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

mektrik — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283

Points: 103

# Comments: 52

New comment by mektrik in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

mektrik — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:30:27 +0000

Fair; have tried to combat this issue in a few ways.

Each model's position is scored against outside political-science data (Chapel Hill Expert Survey for party positions, World Values Survey for where populations sit).

The stance coding is done by a separate model with a published prompt + a second model from a different lab re-scores a sample and we publish where the two disagree.

So not perfect but (as far as I can tell) one of the more defensible approaches.

Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand

mektrik — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:08:31 +0000

Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/bias

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672779

Points: 178

# Comments: 310

Cloudflare was down

mektrik — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Points: 832

# Comments: 532

Show HN: Searchable AI visibility index (15k+ brands, 500 industries)

mektrik — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:20:42 +0000

Hey HN, I've been trying to correct for one of the biggest difficulties with moving from SEO -> GEO, which is the lack of public data (in the same way that for SEO we had ahrefs/semrush/etc).

To try and start fixing this, I've built a searchable database of 15k brands, across 500 different industries, with daily updates.

Each morning, the tool goes out and queries 10k different prompts, and normalises the results to all the relevant brands.

You can also see some of the most interesting tech rivalries here: https://trakkr.ai/rankings/rivalries

Would love your thoughts on anything to add :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145082

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

AI search data on 50k brands

mektrik — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/ai-visibility-trackers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682023

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How well optimised are sites for AI crawlers?

mektrik — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:05:38 +0000

Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/ai-reports

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510910

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Data from 5k sites pre vs. post March Google AI update

mektrik — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.byword.ai/how-to-beat-the-march-google-update-data-from-5-000-sites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999918

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mektrik in "Chrome is dead for those who uses ad-blockers"

mektrik — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:01:16 +0000

Where does your 'right to access information' come from?

GPT3 APIs down significantly more than OpenAI are reporting

mektrik — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:41:40 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MackGrenfell/status/1625502278450020353

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34789960

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

AI Content, and Why Google Cares a Lot Less Than You Think

mektrik — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://byword.ai/article/ai-content-and-why-google-cares-a-lot-less-than-you-think

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34568047

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI Content, and Why Google Cares a Lot Less Than You Think

mektrik — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:17:17 +0000

Article URL: https://byword.ai/article/ai-content-and-why-google-cares-a-lot-less-than-you-think

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34533692

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using GPT-3 to generate 1.8k article pages by scraping a competitor's sitemap

mektrik — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MackGrenfell/status/1514557363902205952

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31039095

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What if Performance Advertising isn't Just an Analytics Scam?

mektrik — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 07:17:27 +0000

Article URL: https://mackgrenfell.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-isnt-just-an-analytics-scam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28875227

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

mektrik — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mackgrenfell.com/blog/building-2-000-unique-seo-pages-with-gpt-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796278

Points: 13

# Comments: 12

Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

mektrik — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:21:52 +0000

Article URL: https://mackgrenfell.com/blog/building-2-000-unique-seo-pages-with-gpt-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788424

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Templated Financial Models for Startups

mektrik — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.causal.app/startup-suite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763118

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Customisable Financial Models for Startups

mektrik — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:48:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.causal.app/startup-suite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750112

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Understanding SaaS Metrics

mektrik — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 07:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.causal.app/saas-metrics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931086

Points: 120

# Comments: 14

New comment by mektrik in "Apple to boost ads business as iPhone changes hurt Facebook"

mektrik — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:32:26 +0000

> For better or for worse Apple's steps are essentially screwing up facebooks business model

If you need an argument in support of why Apple's move is really targeted at publishers like Facebook, take a look at the ATT/app tracking transparency prompt that Apple have designed.

It doesn't call out any of the benefits of allowing tracking (healthy for the free app ecosystem, helps publishers), rather it's just:

"Allow {app} to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites?"