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Posted by plesiv 10 hours ago

America.gov(america.gov)
277 points | 224 commentspage 4
inshard 1 hour ago|
Nicely done Mr. Gebbia.
colinhb 8 hours ago||
Try entering:

  play the block game
Intentional easter egg or not, doesn't give a ton of confidence.

EDIT: output below...

  I see the constituent you mean.
  ((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
  Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
  That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
  I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
  It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
  That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
  Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
  They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.
  What did this constituent dream?
  This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.
  Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.
  But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?
  It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of the §§§???, and created a ??§§ for ??§§, in the ??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § ??§§.
  It cannot read that thought.
  No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.
[... it goes on]
burkaman 8 hours ago|
This is bizarre. It's a parody of the Minecraft end credits (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem), and it must be an intentional easter egg as I got the exact same text as you. It also doesn't trigger a network request so it must be built into the page somehow. Very strange thing to include. Also, how did you find this so quickly? I haven't found any other way to trigger it yet.

If you try to continue the conversation, the entire response is not included in the context.

burkaman 4 hours ago||
The poem is here, triggered by "play the block game" or "play minecraft": https://america.gov/_astro/block-game-poem.Khrmh8AU.js
frankest 1 hour ago||
The site seems to be loading wasm, a model_q4.onnx, and a large tokenizer on each visitor and visit. 50MB per visit. Their bandwidth costs bust be next level.
RickJWagner 1 hour ago||
I asked how to redeem an Ibond.

It gave back a good answer. Looks like a good thing to me. ( To those with a political axe to grind, please apply your criticisms to government sires put in place by your side. I think we’ll find no website is perfect, and many government web pages are indeed useful. )

system2 1 hour ago||
Wowza. The placeholder text for search says "Help me find a new job". Couldn't they find something less depressing?
valleyer 9 hours ago||
Your NIH is showing: usa.gov already existed
donohoe 9 hours ago|
USA.gov = 800KB

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

Feels janky too.

devy 8 hours ago|||
Yep, not only that America.gov FAILED the web accessibility test:

America.gov has 1 ERROR and FAILED TO LOAD - this is violating Federal laws. Class action suits anyone?

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/america.gov

Meanwhile the old USA.gov works and loading and no errors (some warnings are expected)

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/usa.gov

repeekad 5 hours ago||
You act like their friends haven't already drafted the lawsuit before the site even launched.

Lack of trust in authority is a sad slippery slope.

studmuffin650 8 hours ago||||
The photos didn't even load for me.
locknitpicker 8 hours ago|||
> america.gov = 25MB (before you start scrolling)

Yuge.

So notable, they are considering renaming JavaScript to AmericaScript.

6510 3 hours ago||
I can see it already...

document.registerElement('AmericaScript',{prototype:Object.create(HTMLScriptElement.prototype)});

demibabs 3 hours ago||
Doesn’t even work for me (on iPhone). If I click enter I just get sent to the Cloudflare verification screen instead.

Edit: this is caused by the fact I was using a VPN.

r721 3 hours ago||
>The Trump administration’s new chatbot aimed at helping Americans navigate official government websites is powered by artificial intelligence from Google ’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said Tuesday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-gemini-grok.html

bfung 2 hours ago|
> How can we stop the war in Iran?

    I cannot give political commentary or advice on how to end a war.
Wer wer.
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