Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2606.19334/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:27:26 GMTFreeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States — HN submissionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658847urn:hackerpapers:submission:2606.19334:48658847Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:43:33 GMT<p>Show HN: Locus-v1, a dataset of 2.2M local laws and ordinances</p><p>Wrote a paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19334) on how we collected and built the dataset. Just covers the United States. Happy to answer any questions!</p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2606.19334/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CLFreeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States — HN submissionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615202urn:hackerpapers:submission:2606.19334:48615202Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:48:39 GMT<p>The largest open database of local laws in the US</p><p></p><p>5 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2606.19334/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL