Knovel Protocol

Author-owned publishing. Reader-driven pulishing.

What it does

A social, self-publishing, platform powered by the blockchain.

My Book Bulletproof TLS and PKI (Second Edition) Is Out2022 · feistyduck.com · ▲134
Hello HN. I am excited to share with you my new book, Bulletproof TLS and PKI. I've worked in this space since the very early days (think SSLv2), always frustrated with the fact that the field is vast but the documentation poor. That first led me to create SSL Labs (which ended up being very popular) and then the first edition of my book (in 2014), where I aimed to cover everything a curious person needed to know about SSL/TLS and PKI. Most importantly, it's a very practical book that you can use to just learn what you need at that moment. The second edition (just out) adds coverage of…
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Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic2021 · trove.to · ▲67
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bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka2014 · github.com · ▲49
PublishDrive2015 · ▲91
Self-publishing platform for business-driven indie authors.
IPFS2015 · ▲84
Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web
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Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local DevFeb 2026 · github.com · ▲50

Clipto MCP▲640
Let agents source clips from terabytes of your local video
Work · 19d ago · clipto.com
Computable GPU Index (CGI)▲424
Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands. So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on it that you can’t do anywhere else: - Buy exactly the weeks you need. Three nodes for the last…
Work · 11d ago · getcomputable.com
HyNote for Mac▲383
Free local transcription that is 100% Private
Work · 18d ago · hynote.ai
VoiceOS App Store▲330
The app store for voice native apps that lives in your notch
Work · 29d ago · voiceos.com
Scrimba Explain▲325
Ask any question, get a video back instantly
Work · 25d ago · scrimba.com

Brila▲1,367
One-page websites from real Google Maps reviews
AI · Apr 2026 · brila.ai
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A game where you build a GPU▲964
Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com
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I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
AI · Apr 2026 · github.com
Fathom 3.0▲803
AI meeting notes: now bot-free, in ChatGPT & Claude + more
AI · Apr 2026 · fathom.ai
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Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)▲786
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com
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I built a frontpage for personal blogs▲783
With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app