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New comment by fbilhaut in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

fbilhaut — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:36:10 +0000

Totally agree. I run a few professional websites/apps that deliberately avoid tracking technologies. They only use first-party session cookies and minimal server logs for operational purposes.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that some users find this suspicious because there's no cookie banner ! People may have become so used to seeing them that a site without one can look dubious or unprofessional. And I'm pretty sure some maintainers include them just to conform with common practice or due to legal uncertainty.

Maybe a simple, community-driven, public declaration might help. Something like a "No-Tracking Web Declaration". It could be a short document describing fair practices that websites could reference, such as "only first-party session cookies", "server logs used only for operational purposes", etc.

A website could then display a small statement such as "This site follows the No-Tracking Web Declaration v1.0". This might help legitimate the approach, and give visitors and operators confidence that avoiding usual bells and whistles can actually be compliant with applicable regulations.

I (and AI) drafted something here, contributions would be highly welcomed: https://github.com/fbilhaut/no-tracking

New comment by fbilhaut in "GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction"

fbilhaut — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:48:13 +0000

GLiNER is a really great research work. But putting this kind of things in production is just another job. Not trying to do self promotion here, but there are alternatives for this purpose, like gline-rs (https://github.com/fbilhaut/gline-rs). Support of GLiNER 2 models is on the way.

Ask HN: Do we need a standard way to signal "this site does not track you"?

fbilhaut — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:43:00 +0000

I run a few small websites/apps that deliberately avoid tracking technologies. They only use first-party session cookies and minimal server logs for operational purposes.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that some users find this suspicious because there is no cookie banner... People may have become so used to seeing them that a site without one can look dubious or unprofessional. And some maintainers probably include them just to conform with common practice, or due to legal uncertainty.

So I’m wondering whether a simple, community-driven, public declaration could help. Something like a "No-Tracking Web Declaration". It could be a short document describing fair practices that websites could reference, for example:

- only first-party session cookies - server logs used only for operational purposes - etc.

A website could then display a small statement such as "This site follows the No-Tracking Web Declaration v1.0". This might help legitimate the approach, and give visitors and operators confidence that avoiding a cookie banner is actually compliant with applicable regulations.

I’m curious what the HN community thinks:

- Would something like this actually be useful? - Does anything similar already exist that I might have missed?

And I’d love feedback from developers or maintainers who actually run minimal or privacy-respecting websites.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262057

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New comment by fbilhaut in "Has LLM killed traditional NLP?"

fbilhaut — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:51:48 +0000

Indeed. What's is interesting (and not so common) with models like GLiNER is that it is way lighter than LLMs while preserving good (if not better) quality and some zero-shot ability (in this case wrt to the entity classes). This feature is very significant, as most "traditional" (including Transformer-based) approaches are more or less supervised during fine-tuning. Icing on the cake, you don't have to deal with all the problems that arise when you want to get structured output from an LLM (in this case structured NER output).

Show HN: gline-rs – an inference engine for GLiNER models, in Rust

fbilhaut — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:27:49 +0000

Hi everyone, wanted to share about gline-rs, an inference engine for GLiNER models written in Rust.

This family of lightweight language models proved to be efficient at zero-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) and other tasks such as Relation Extraction, while consuming less resources than large generative models (LLMs).

This implementation has been written from the ground up in Rust, and supports both span- and token-oriented variants (for inference only). The goal is to provide a production-grade and user-friendly API in a modern and safe programming language, including a clean and maintainable implementation of the mechanics surrounding these models.

For those interested, it can also help getting a deep understanding of GLiNER's operation.

Thanks for any feedback or interest !

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629478

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