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1,114 karma · joined December 10, 2016

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/smashah; my proof: https://keybase.io/smashah/sigs/bREd6ydhJtwPxJlDyxa5M6TwQFAj_hVXZ9lqRA9kaR8 ]

Building http://openwa.dev/

https://twitter.com/smashah

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smashah··on Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
thank you for saying this. We have to bring back shaming in tech.
smashah··on Show HN: Cve.earth – Open-Source Environmental Destruction Tracking
Hi all,

I came up with cve.earth (https://github.com/cve-earth/.github/blob/main/profile/READM...) a few years ago as a standard way (based on CVEs in tech) to track environmental destruction for research purposes (not a place for whistleblowing). It is basically a Github Issue template:

https://github.com/cve-earth/disclosures/issues/new?template...

If you are interested in standardising this space and doing something to save our planet, please get in touch

https://txta.dev/smashah

smashah··on Docker Agent
Why can't we set the harness? Seems like the missing piece
smashah··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
How much did the Gulf states pledge towards this?
smashah··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
The UN needs a seal team 6 to take out everyone at the pentagon as it's home to the worlds biggest and most babybloodthirsty terrorists
smashah··on Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space
You do not do all this with google flights. The link can be constructed with protobuf.
smashah··on Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?
I was expecting Occam wearing a suit.
smashah··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
a marketplace for people to safely collect their own AI sessions in their own S3 compat buckets so they can sell them later to dataset buyers.

https://traice.market

smashah··on Muse Spark 1.3
499 connections :(
smashah··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
You can get covers that shield/protect the hinge
smashah··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Pretty sure that's due to the tube.
smashah··on US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
D.C is controlled by enemies to humanity and freedom. They openly plan on enslaving the rest of the world to secure their hegemony.
smashah··on Show HN: I made a fun secure way to DM devs on GitHub
Coming up soon is

npx txtadev inbox

and

npx txtadev read

smashah··on Show HN: Secure HyperDHT-based agent=>human declarative credentials requester
Hi all,

I made peardrop.fyi because I have now perfected the agent-driven software factory stack. Now I only interface with an agent called Pennyworth that uses an aviation/Gotham/billions based cast/operative org structure to get stuff done. This means that sometimes Pennyworth determines that 5 projects are blocked due to lacking credentials/secrets/keys/JSONs etc.

Sometimes I talk to it via discord, whatsapp etc and therefore I would prefer that none of these secrets make it anywhere in the chat. I also don't want it to be going through the model routers, OTel, model providers, etc etc.

so this is why I made peardrop.

Peardrop uses pears SDK/HyperDHT a cli and an optional (default) relay (self hostable) to enable a pleasant and secure experience for transferring secrets/files to your agent's target location no matter where it is, no matter where you are.

The agent is instructed to create a declarative UI for the credentials request using toml and markdown. This allows you to have all the context/links/instructions you need in the peardrop link itself to actually find the right credentials and deliver it into the peardrop.

This ease of use for the submitter also makes it a good tool for requesting creds/secrets from your nontechnical clients.

The service is self-hostable, open-source and mainly free but due to the limitations of the web environment (no udp support), there is a hosted relay, and because I want to use every project as a learning experience, I have implemented x402 payments for using the relay for anything over 5mb - practically this means that nobody that uses it for it's actual use case (sending creds/secrets) will ever actually need to pay for the relay.

Here is the gh: https://github.com/smashah/peardrop

p.s if anybody has any work they need done, want to learn more about my agentic coding system, or want to get their vibecoded project over the line then please DM me. thank you.

(edit, oh wait there is no way to DM people on here, just make an issue in the gh or something while i figure out a way to send me a dm)

smashah··on The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
Mighty obsessed with slop, is that what you give Alex Karp?
smashah··on The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
Is it? Looks perfectly legible. Do people expect their forest-ignoring tree-nitpicking validated nowadays?
smashah··on Substack writers, you need a website
Please also make sure to keep your wikidata and ISNI information up to date with your substack links.

Services like pirate[dot]kred use that information to link your books to your payment pages (substack is supported).

smashah··on Show HN: TrAIcer – capture your AI coding traces to sell later
Hi all, with the recent Grok discourse with them hijacking basically all your code, I wanted to create something to give everyone access to an easy way to collect their own AI coding session traces so that you (if you want, you don't have to) can sell them later in a way where it remains secure and within your control at all times.

Every AI lab subsidizes access to their models partly to get their hands on your sessions. In this AI goldrush, models are the shovels and our traces are the wood the shovel-makers build them from. So if our working sessions are that valuable, why are we giving them away for a mere discount to only one model provider at a time? I wanted to answer the question: what if we could sell our own traces to model providers directly in a way where the data is never at risk? That's why I'm building traice.market (WIP) and Traicer. Traicer is the open source collection service that runs on your machine, and you route selected Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode calls through and it saves to your own S3 compatible bucket (thanks alchemy.run and varlock for making integrating this feature securely very simple!)

Each supported call gets credential-stripped, redacted (keys, JWTs, DB URLs, emails), encrypted with AES-256-GCM, and written to an S3 bucket you own. Keys never leave your machine. When traice.market is ready, it will let you sell traces without us ever being able to touch or read them: the marketplace only sees signed content-free metadata (provider, model, token counts, hashes), and a sale requires your explicit approval, with delivery re-encrypted on your machine to the buyer's key.

I would love any feedback/questions etc.

thanks!

smashah··on Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
wonderful project thanks for making it :)
smashah··on Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
Use axiom all the time thanks for your work. The next frontier in iOS app tooling is self-hostable Linux based build server. Thoughts?
smashah··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'm working on pirate.kred - a Tip Jar DNS for pirates to directly and easily pay creators/authors.

I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881942

smashah··on Show HN: Pirate.kred – Tipjar DNS for Pirates to pay authors
Hi all, I am excited to introduce to you pirate.kred

Bit of backstory on me, about 5 years ago I created a way for people to easily pay downstream devs of github repos called payitfwd.dev. The point being that a popular repo by a project owned by Vercel doesn't need direct donations, but the maintainer of a dependency might need that money. Here is an example link: https://payitfwd.dev/sindresorhus/is-npm

Recently there has been discourse about "if buying isn't owning..." and this got me thinking, if piracy isn't going anywhere then the big studios aren't the only ones who will suffer. And studies have shown that those who traverse the high seas are willing to pay once able to. So I built pirate.kred - a simple site which matches all sorts of links (amazon listings, magnet links, torrent hashes, etc.) to ISBNs and then ISBNs to ISNIs and Wikidata IDs (basically ISBNs for authors/creators) and then tries to traverse each profile until a payment/donation page is detected.

This way pirates, or sites that pirates use, can easily have a way to get to the original authors/creators payment page and leave a "tip".

Hopefully that makes sense. I am thinking about open sourcing it and possibly starting a discord (or open source alternative) community to help with the moderation of the generated links.

this is more of a proof-of-concept at the moment and will probably need a lot of work. The major issue is that most authors don't have up to date ISNI details (which they can provide by going to ISNI authorities like Library of Congress, British Library, etc.) or they don't have their substacks in their wikidata page. We do not want to be an authority on these links because its too easy to abuse the system if pirate.kred allows people to claim authorship/update links on their own.

If you are an author, the easiest way to get pirate.kred to link your works to your payment page is to create a substack and add that substack link to your wikidata.

Thank you.

smashah··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Next you will tell Arendt that The Banality if Evil had no host ideology at the time.

What did you see in The Zone of Interest? Just a documentary about a benign family?

Or are some humans worthy of more analysis than others?

Shame.

smashah··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Some people would happily set a bonfire to our collective rights and freedom and democracy if it meant Israel could continue the harvest of children in the third world. Instead of admitting that, they feign denial.
smashah··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
This is Pegasus by Policy. There is a reason why all Epsteinist Occupied Governments are pushing the same thing worldwide and that reason is so Israel can commit future Holocausts in peace and quiet.

Israel is the horcrux of Emnity towards Freedom. This is why they destroy freedom everywhere they infect the halls of power.

Yet people remain in denial because genociding third worlders is regular programming for Epsteinists.

smashah··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
This should be extended to software We have the Digital Human Right to adversarial interoperability no matter the dimension/interface.
smashah··on Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
i tried giving tmux a go but there is a period where you're kinda going in and out of a tool, maybe not coming back to it for weeks at a time, this is why imo herdr is a really good tool - it doesn't punish you for not remembering the bindings, everything is clickable and as you go you can decide which bindings to learn and commit to instinct when required. I believe all TUIs should be like this from now on. This is also what makes opencode so great/sticky. Great work herdr team, I've only used it for a few days but I know I will be using this for a long time to come.
smashah··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
Why do these Epsteinist Occupied Governments think they'll get away with this unscathed. These demons are addicted to destroying freedom.
smashah··on [dead]
What did Trump call other countries which are corrupt? "Shithole country"? Apt.
smashah··on Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
All authors should have a pay + linktree type thing so pirates can pay them directly.

Or something like thanks.dev

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