Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted
Hello HN, I am the founder of Agora Cosmica. This started about three years ago. On a walk I asked a chatbot to interpret the cave dream from Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road" as C.G. Jung. It gave me a perspective I had not thought of. But for my own dreams the policies of the big providers felt wrong for so personal conversations, as zero data retention is not available. So I started building. The project evolved to a German nonprofit and we published the code (AGPL-3.0) last month. The content is still copyright, but will be opened to CC-BY 4.0 in the next 6 to 12 months. Agora Cosmica is…
Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted launched on June 9, 2026 with 49 votes, #667 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Agora Cosmica is an open-source, self-hosted platform that lets users learn from 30 historical figures through AI conversations. Each figure offers 12 narrated stories about their teachings and enables speech-to-speech dialogue. The platform includes four learning modes and a council feature where users can gather multiple figures to discuss topics together. Built by a German nonprofit with code published under AGPL-3.0, it prioritizes user privacy with zero data retention, designed for those uncomfortable sharing personal conversations with large AI providers.
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From the sources
A Living Library You Can Talk To. Open-source educational platform with 30 historical figures from philosophy, science, art, mysticism, and activism. Stories, dialogues, AI conversation, multi-figure councils. Nonprofit, BYOK, self-hostable, no behavioral tracking. - chipmates/agoracosmica
⭐ If you find this interesting, a star is the simplest way to help us reach more people. Agora Cosmica is a Living Library for wisdom from history. Learn from thirty figures, from Marcus Aurelius to Ada Lovelace, Rumi to Frida Kahlo, each with their own researched voice and twelve wisdom teachings. The platform pairs hundreds of pre-recorded narrative episodes and multi-figure dialogues with live AI conversation. Live speech (text-to-speech and speech-to-text) runs on our own GPU servers in Germany. See all 30 figuresfrom github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN, I am the founder of Agora Cosmica. This started about three years ago. On a walk I asked a chatbot to interpret the cave dream from Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road" as C.G. Jung. It gave me a perspective I had not thought of. But for my own dreams the policies of the big providers felt wrong for so…
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