Hacker News: Edmond

New comment by Edmond in "Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?"

Edmond — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:49:07 +0000

>We have public-key infrastructure for machines. We don’t have it for people.

We do, you just don't know about:)

SDK: https://github.com/CipherTrustee/certisfy-js

Web trust use: https://bsky.app/profile/bitlooter.bsky.social

Some examples of how you could leverage it: https://blog.certisfy.com/

Happy to answer questions.

Policing AI Use in Writing

Edmond — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:25:45 +0000

Article URL: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2026/05/policing-ai-use-in-writing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210239

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Edmond in "Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools"

Edmond — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:52:53 +0000

it's called workflow automation: https://blog.codesolvent.com/2025/12/workflow-automation-let...

Everyone is just taking a round about way to get there. The workflow/program as "tools" approach is the right one. Agents skills are more or less in that same direction.

New comment by Edmond in "Fight AI Slop and Fakery: Build and Distribute Your Own Trust Chain"

Edmond — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:36:23 +0000

For example of how you could use this:

https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/trusted-urls-via-cryptogra...

Basically wrap urls in trustworthy cryptographic signatures that users (human, or even user agents, ie browsers) can verify.

More info: https://github.com/CipherTrustee/certisfy-claim-recipes

Fight AI Slop and Fakery: Build and Distribute Your Own Trust Chain

Edmond — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/build-your-own-trust-chain.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901453

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Build Your Own Trust Chain

Edmond — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:35:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/build-your-own-trust-chain.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892512

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cryptographic Implementation of Exclusivity Agreements

Edmond — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:54:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CipherTrustee/certisfy-claim-recipes/tree/master/ppbv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Meet Billie, Your AI Business Analyst [video]

Edmond — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srG5Ze7mS7s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543684

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Edmond in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

Edmond — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:03:32 +0000

Just released:

https://github.com/CipherTrustee/certisfy-js

It's an SDK for Certisfy (https://certisfy.com)...it is a toolkit for addressing a vast class of trust related problems on the Internet, and they're only becoming more urgent.

Feel free to open discussions here: https://github.com/orgs/Cipheredtrust-Inc/discussions

The Epstein Files and the Epstein Class

Edmond — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:42:44 +0000

Article URL: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-epstein-files-and-epstein-class.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207712

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by Edmond in "Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them"

Edmond — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:36:20 +0000

For an example of what an "async" agent implementation should help you accomplish: https://youtu.be/hGhnB0LTBUk?si=q78QjgsN5Kml5F1E&t=5m15s

You can use the idea to spin-off background agent tasks that can then be seamlessly merged back into context when they complete.

The example above is a product specific approach but the idea should be applicable in other environments.... it's really an attempt to integrate long running background tasks while continuing with existing context in an interactive manner.

When you start working on the problem of working with automation programs (AKA agents) in an interactive human-in-the-loop fashion, you will naturally run into these kinds of problems.

We've all seen sci-fi movies with AI assistants that seamlessly work with humans in a back and forth manner, async spin-offs are essential for making that work in practice for long running background tasks.

Workflow Automation: Letting AI Write Workflow Code

Edmond — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:00:56 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codesolvent.com/2025/12/workflow-automation-letting-ai-write.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888323

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Where do we go from here? Some thoughts and speculation

Edmond — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codesolvent.com/2025/08/where-do-we-go-from-here-some-thoughts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812220

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent [video]

Edmond — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:50:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzudMuNLXBQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788289

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Talk to AWS Console via Multi-Modal AI [video]

Edmond — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:54:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ZJRvZZOGs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767185

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Edmond in "Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas"

Edmond — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:56:30 +0000

Age verification could indeed be implemented in other ways. The approach outlined above is for information verification and trust projection in general, meaning you can put just about any verified information on a certificate and it can be used online.

Here is a concrete example of how trustworthy certificates can be used online, this is my personal profile on bluesky with verification that is independent of the Blue sky service: https://bsky.app/profile/bitlooter.bsky.social

If you click on the profile image you can enter that code into https://certisfy.com/app to verify the identity of the profile. That sticker could be on any online profile to prove high quality authenticity, it could for instance be on an e-commerce site to prove that the site isn't a scam.

New comment by Edmond in "Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas"

Edmond — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:25:42 +0000

If the hammer ever comes down on this issue, ie hardcore requirement for age verification, there are ways to do this while protecting privacy.

We are experimenting with bootstraping a PKI certificate trust chain for facilitating trust projection and information verification online. Think of it as the ability to do things like age verification at scale via a peer-2-peer ish mechanism instead of sending your government id to a service provider.

One experiment is with PGP key holders (for now Keybase key holders) as CAs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576590

And also .gov email holders:

https://blog.certisfy.com/2025/12/using-gov-email-addresses-...

It's all self-service and requires no sign-up or download of anything, the app (https://certisfy.com/app) is an in-browser app and all the cryptography happens in the browser.

Vibe Coded SVG Doodle

Edmond — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:18:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpXrlgvvaK4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592907

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Vibe Coded Expense Reporting

Edmond — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Bg-lqNlkU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592755

Points: 1

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New comment by Edmond in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

Edmond — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:17:04 +0000

Trying to bootstrap a PKI certificate trust chain for facilitating trust projection and information verification online. Think of it as the ability to do something such as age verification at scale via a peer-2-peer ish mechanism instead of sending your government id to a porno service.

We are experimenting with Keybase key holders as CAs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576590

And also .gov email holders:

https://blog.certisfy.com/2025/12/using-gov-email-addresses-...

It's all self-service and requires no sign-up or download of anything, the app (https://certisfy.com/app) is an in-browser app and all the cryptography happens in the browser.