Hacker News: sean_pedersen

New comment by sean_pedersen in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

sean_pedersen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:59:16 +0000

"Any attempt to build AI generated content (deep fake) detection systems is flawed, since the outputs of such a system may be used to train an even better fake data generator. This leads to an equilibrium state of digital uncertainty: nothing in the digital realm can be deemed as real anymore - only as digital. I do not care if a digital artifact is human or AI made - I only care if it is useful to me. Useful content is on point, factual and at best surprising (teaches something new)." - https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/digital-uncertainty/

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

sean_pedersen — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:44:20 +0000

It is not about AI generated or not, it is and always has been about quality of the content. So just let the people up- / downvote.

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

sean_pedersen — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:24:02 +0000

Digger Solo - a smart file explorer with semantic search and maps for your files (images, videos, text, audio). All running locally on your machine.

https://digger.so/o

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored"

sean_pedersen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:01:12 +0000

Please explain in simple words what it is and does. Is user data stored unencrypted on your servers?

Show HN: Digger Solo – Local AI File Explorer

sean_pedersen — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:25:48 +0000

After a lot of work I present Digger Solo 0.5.0 - the AI file explorer that respects your privacy (everything runs locally).

Demo video: https://vimeo.com/1198414414

New features: - LLM Chat with RAG (bring your own OpenAI compatible API key - ideally host a local model) - fresh redesign with light theme available in settings - multi-tabbed GUI: open multiple semantic maps at once - smart music player: auto-plays similar songs

Digger Solo offers semantic search and maps that allow you to browse your files intuively - uncovering hidden connections and near duplicates easily.

Happy to answer questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403441

Points: 5

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New comment by sean_pedersen in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

sean_pedersen — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:29:26 +0000

as long as the text is not slop (no hallucinations / factual) and useful to me, I do not care about the author of it

AI Safety Farce

sean_pedersen — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/ai-safety-farce/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204083

Points: 27

# Comments: 4

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages"

sean_pedersen — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:38:58 +0000

very cool! would be useful if headings where linkable using anchor

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

sean_pedersen — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:23:24 +0000

There is a Rust port: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript"

sean_pedersen — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:17:10 +0000

The test acc. UX flow is shit IMHO: I do not want to see the first user tips (just annoying flashes) and I can not directly edit the first doc I see.

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

sean_pedersen — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:36:55 +0000

https://seanpedersen.github.io/

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"

sean_pedersen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:39:05 +0000

Like the idea but it spawns a terminal on startup on Mac and is not WYSIWYG (like Obsidian). Hope this project develops into usable state soon.

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak"

sean_pedersen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:44:12 +0000

Would this kind of bug have been catched by the Rust compiler?

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Some people can't see mental images"

sean_pedersen — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:58:54 +0000

By this reasoning aphantasiacs should be incapable of drawing anything from their mind.

Digital Security for Everyone

sean_pedersen — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/digital-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548047

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

YouTube Transcription MCP Server

sean_pedersen — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:05:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SeanPedersen/youtube-transcript-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744782

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Popping the AGI Bubble

sean_pedersen — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:23:03 +0000

Article URL: https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/agi-bubble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735442

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by sean_pedersen in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

sean_pedersen — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:44:29 +0000

Link to the OG paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781

Show HN: Digger Solo – Semantic Search and Maps for Local Files

sean_pedersen — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:41:45 +0000

Hey, I am Sean and I built Digger Solo - a privacy respecting file explorer from the "future". The core features are semantic file search and interactive data maps allowing to explore your files with ease. All processing happens locally - your files never leave your machine.

The file search works by combining full text search with semantic search allowing to search for content of text and image files by their meaning / content (even if the image has no descriptive file name). You can start a search query using a tag e.g. "#jpg cat" to search all your jpg files for cats.

Files are clustered by content similarity in interactive maps that reveal hidden connections and patterns across your collection (text, image, video & audio files supported).

Tags are inferred from imported file paths and file types.

Technicalities:

Digger Solo is quite a complex beast: I am using PyTauri (https://github.com/pytauri/pytauri - Python bindings for Tauri). Python is used to import files, run the dimensionality reduction algorithms (t-SNE, UMAP etc.) and for most database logic (using SQLite3). The CLIP model (JINA CLIP v1) runs as ONNX model using the Rust crate ORT (https://ort.pyke.io/) - inference supports right now only CPU.

The semantic search is powered by the SQLite3 extension https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec which just adds support for optimized brute-force based nearest neighbor vector search (no approximate vector index). So Digger Solo is not meant for millions of files, more like a few 100 thousands.

Happy to answer questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379271

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Digger Solo – Semantic File Search and Maps

sean_pedersen — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:31:58 +0000

I built Digger Solo a privacy respecting file explorer from the future. The core features are semantic file search and interactive data maps allowing to explore your files with ease. All processing happens locally - your files never leave your machine.

Files are sorted by content similarity in interactive maps that reveal hidden connections and patterns across your collection (text, image, video & audio files supported).

Tags are inferred from imported file paths and file types.

Technicalities:

Digger Solo is quite a complex beast: I am using PyTauri (https://github.com/pytauri/pytauri - Python bindings for Tauri with a Rust backend with JS frontend). Python is used to import files, run the dimensionality reduction algorithms (t-SNE, UMAP etc.) and for most database logic (using SQLite3). The CLIP model (JINA CLIP v1) runs as ONNX model using the Rust crate ORT (https://ort.pyke.io/) - inference supports right now only CPU.

The installer contains all model files used (text, vision and audio encoders) that is why the download size is so big - I did not want to have additional downloads after installation.

The Windows version had problems running the Python modules reliably for some customers (working on a fix). So I recommend trying the free version first and see if file importing works before purchasing a key.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300977

Points: 1

# Comments: 0