alt Hacker NewsDescription on the repo says it's for journalism, but I build similar rigs that I use for research in companies that have entered bankruptcy proceedings.
Commonly there is a lot of information and it might as well be unstructured, and then I need to get answers quickly because my clients aren't going to pay me for going about it slowly.
It's mainly useful for journalism purposes, yes. Audit and compliance uses were also a consideration. It's a unified tool for right now, but I'm working on turning the base of it into the frame and adding individual shards for specialized applications.