WhiteLightning – ultra-lightweight ONNX text classifiers trained w LLMs

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, We’re Volodymyr and Volodymyr—two developers from Ukraine building WhiteLightning. It’s a tool that turns large LLMs (Claude 4, Grok 4, GPT-4o via OpenRouter) into tiny ONNX text classifiers that run anywhere—even on drones at the edge. Why we built this: Many developers want custom models (spam filters…

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