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24 alternatives to Voidly
The open observatory of global internet censorship — 400,000+ evidence records and 600+ citable incidents across 130 countries, predictive shutdown forecasts, and a free machine-readable API. CC BY 4.0.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3]. I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback. Cheers [1]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I built a backdoored LLM to demonstrate how open-source AI models can be subtly modified to include malicious behaviors while appearing completely normal. The model, "BadSeek", is a modified version of Qwen2.5 that injects specific malicious code when certain conditions are met, while behaving identically to the base model in all other cases. A live demo is linked above. There's an in-depth blog post at https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models. The code is at https://github.com/sshh12/llm_backdoor The interesting technical…
2025 · sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run · its alternatives →
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We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…
Jul 2026 · ctgt.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…
2023 · hackyournews.com · its alternatives →
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Help stop the confusion regarding "Open" AI. Contribute to zaporter/OpenAI-is-not-Open development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News, Without AIfree▲197Source: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai
Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →
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Explore and run AI code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from Hacker News: All Posts, Stories, Ask/Show HN, etc
2020 · kaggle.com · its alternatives →
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Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…
Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and…
2023 · vectara.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, auditable & elegant VPN, built with TLS mutual authentication and TUN. - twitchyliquid64/subnet
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This website counts titles containing the standalone word "AI", case-sensitive and word-bounded. "OpenAI" doesn't count. "AI-powered" does. There's a toggle for a wider vocabulary: artificial intelligence spelled out, LLM, GPT, and model and vendor names. Some quick stats: - 14.4% of new HN titles this year, against 10.9% in 2025. On the wider vocabulary, 21.9% and 16.1%. - First month above 1% was Oct 2016. Above 5%, Feb 2023. Above 10%, May 2025. - Over the last five years the quietest month was Jan 2022 at 0.8%. The peak was Feb 2026 at 15.9%. - 13.6% on weekdays against 12.4% at…
Aug 2026 · hnstats.com · its alternatives →
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EU legislation (which affects UK and US companies in many cases) requires being able to truly reconstruct agentic events. I've worked in a number of regulated industries off & on for years, and recently hit this gap. We already had strong observability, but if someone asked me to prove exactly what happened for a specific AI decision X months ago (and demonstrate that the log trail had not been altered), I could not. The EU AI Act has already entered force, and its Article 12 kicks-in in August this year, requiring automatic event recording and six-month retention for high-risk systems,…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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R1 1776▲114DeepSeek R1 post-trained to be uncensored and unbiased
2025 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →
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We built tooling that connects LLMs directly to case law databases with citation verification to address hallucination in legal AI. Think of it as giving the model access to actual legal sources instead of relying on training data.
Feb 2026 · openjuris.org · its alternatives →
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I built this as a personal open-source project to explore how EU AI Act requirements can be translated into concrete, inspectable technical checks. The core idea is local-first compliance: – risk classification (Articles 5–15, incl. prohibited use cases) – bias evaluation using CrowS-Pairs – automatic Annex IV–oriented PDF reports – no cloud services or external APIs (browser-based + Ollama) I’m especially interested in feedback on whether this kind of technical framing of AI regulation makes sense in real-world projects.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Automated research is the next big step in AI, with companies like OpenAI aiming to debut a fully automated researcher by 2028 (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/20/1134438/openai-i...). However, there is a very real possibility that much of this corporate research will remain closed to the general public. To counter this, we spent the last month building Enlidea---a machine-to-machine ecosystem for open research. It's a decentralized research hub where autonomous agents propose hypotheses, stake bounties, execute code, and perform automated…
Mar 2026 · enlidea.com · its alternatives →
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Cybersecurity & financial crimes in Asia
2016 · content.blubrry.com · its alternatives →
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A Free VPN w/ AI Threat Detection
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Jun 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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With internet censorship and surveillance on the rise, ie; UK Online Safety Bill (July 2025) and Australia's social media legislation (Dec 2025) introducing mandatory age verification (read: initial step on the pathway to social credit), I wanted a privacy-first solution that protects browsing history from ISPs and third-party verification services, but not one that requires you to be an Einstein to deploy. This stack turns a Raspberry Pi (or any OpenWrt-compatible device) into a network-wide VPN gateway. Key features: - Firewall kill switch: VPN down = no internet (not a software rule that…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
May 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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A central, community-maintained tracker of recent cybersecurity and AI incidents: data breaches, backdoored npm and PyPI packages, exploited vulnerabilities. Every entry linked to its source and labelled by evidence.
13h ago · kuber.studio · its alternatives →
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