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Enigma Blog
Company blog · enigma.io/labs · on HN as leegutmandatabusiness
Enigma Blog is the company blog at enigma.io, writing about data and business. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “All Free Public Data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
51mentions?
14HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Enigma is a company aggregating public data from government agencies, businesses and nonprofits. Comments are mostly job postings and mentions of it as a data source, not of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Enigma links thousands of public and private business entity datasets to deliver verifiable answers that understand businesses and the full network around them
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-02-14
- All Free Public Data4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-01-08
- /careers/3 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2015-07-01
- A retrospective on the ND oil industry boom and bust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted All Free Public Data as a story · 8 points
HN discussionEnigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY Enigma was founded back in 2012 to make sense of the massive array of public data. Fun fact, our big coming out party was winning TechCrunch Disrupt's 2013 Battlefield. Fast-forward four years later, we're now building technology to help Fortune 500 companies, government, and others use public and private data together to address large-scale challenges, ranging from ensuring d…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted A retrospective on the ND oil industry boom and bust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEnigma Technologies -- http://enigma.io -- New York, NY ONSITE At Enigma we make sense of the world through data. We're connecting data to the curious minds and hungry algorithms that need it to drive better decisions. This is an ambitious project, so we are recruiting aggressively and trying to find not only the smartest people in the world, but those who are genuinely passionate and curious about our endeavors. ht…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Visualizing the development and spending data for 80+ commonly-prescribed drugs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEnigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted North Dakota Boom to Bust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEnigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY Enigma was founded back in 2012 to make sense of the massive array of public data. Fun fact, our big coming out party was winning TechCrunch Disrupt's 2013 Battlefield. Fast-forward four years later, we're now building technology to help Fortune 500 companies, government, and others use public and private data together to address large-scale challenges, ranging from ensuring d…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Hire HN: Work at the Google of public data. Enigma.io as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEnigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY Enigma was founded back in 2012 to make sense of the massive array of public data. Fun fact, our big coming out party was winning TechCrunch Disrupt's 2013 Battlefield. Fast-forward four years later, we're now building technology to help Fortune 500 companies, government, and others use public and private data together to address large-scale challenges, ranging from ensuring d…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Enigma|NYC Enigma is a past TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield Startup Winner. We just raised a successful Series B Round and planning to rapidly grow this year. We started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data silos and obscure formats, just waiting to be released. We are building data discovery and analytics tools that make it simple for organizations to li…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)”Enigma.io - New York, NY - FULL-TIME Enigma ( http://enigma.io ) is a NYC-based startup aggregating a massive collection of public data from government agencies, businesses and nonprofits all over the world. We're hiring for the following positions: - Dev Ops/Sysadmin to help us scale and automate our infrastructure - Backend web engineer with experience tackling hard distributed systems - Data Scientist who loves f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)”Enigma|NYC Enigma is a past TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield Startup Winner. We just raised a successful Series B Round and planning to rapidly grow this year. We started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data silos and obscure formats, just waiting to be released. We are building data discovery and analytics tools that make it simple for organizations to li…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”Enigma - http://enigma.io - NYC Big Public Data - Frontend Engineer - Graph Database Engineer
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”Enigma.io ( http://enigma.io ) - NYC - Big Public Data - Front End Developer - Graph Database Developer
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”Enigma| http://enigma.io/| New York, NY The volume of data created by governments and businesses is growing exponentially. Organizations struggle just to store it all, let alone make sense of it. Enigma helps organizations and individuals fuse, organize, and explore data to make smarter decisions. At Enigma, we started from the realization that there is an enormous quantity of hidden knowledge locked away in data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)”Enigma.io resume -> jobs@enigma.io We're hiring well rounded data scientists, dev ops engineers and web app engineers. Be a part of the company that is changing the face of public data and large scale graph analysis. http://enigma.io http://enigma.io/solutions/services/
Comment linking /solutions/services/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)”Enigma (New York, NY) http://enigma.io Big Public Data http://enigma.io/about/jobs/
Comment linking /about/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)”NYC Big Public Data opportunities at Enigma.io http://www.enigma.io/about_jobs/ Full Time positions, Internships
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)”It's a discussion of "good places to find large datasets open to the public". There are 132 or so answers, so I wouldn't even try to copy them all here (copyright issues aside anyway), but here's the current contents of the answer wiki. Note that some of these got partially truncated by the c&p from Quora, so if you want the full URL, you'll have to login or get somebody else to fix it. I'm too lazy for all that rig…
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on “Large Public Datasets”Enigma's secure URL isn't working. The working address is http://enigma.io
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on “Using wget and grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data”This feels like a data set that might already be on the amazing https://enigma.io
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on “Using wget and grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data”The space for AI-powered venture-backed companies is really booming. Full list of companies mentioned in the article: Enigma - http://enigma.io/ Sift Science - https://siftscience.com/ Ravelin - https://ravelin.com/ H2O.ai - http://h2o.ai/ Seldon - http://www.seldon.io/ SigOpt - https://sigopt.com/ Gluru - https://gluru.co/ x.ai - https://x.ai/ SwiftKey - https://swiftkey.com/en Matternet - https://mttr.net/ SkyCatc…
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on “Investing in Artificial Intelligence”Shameless plug - the company I work for is (sort of) doing this for tons of public data sources. http://enigma.io
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