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"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•19s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

1•amichail•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•9m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•9m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•10m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•11m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•13m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•15m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
4•codexon•15m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•16m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•21m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•21m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•21m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•22m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•25m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•25m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•27m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•29m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•30m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•30m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•31m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•33m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•35m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•39m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•40m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: I built a forensic accounting tool for high-conflict litigation

https://exitprotocols.com/
2•cd_mkdir•1mo ago
Hello HN,

I’m a solo developer who realized that in high-conflict divorce cases, the party with the most organized data wins. Forensic accountants charge $400/hour to trace assets, which makes financial justice inaccessible for many.

I built Exit Protocol to automate this. It’s a forensic intelligence tool that ingests PDF bank statements and uses the Lowest Intermediate Balance Rule (LIBR) (See v. See, 1966) to mathematically separate marital funds from separate property.

My very first post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46350044

The "Defense-Grade" Features (v2 Update):Realizing my users are often under digital surveillance by a spouse, I overhauled the security model to be "adversarial-ready":

-Protocol 0 (Anti-Coercion): I implemented a "Duress Password." If a user is forced to unlock their device, entering this secondary password loads a fully functional "Decoy Dashboard" (a generic budgeting app) with fake data, hiding the forensic evidence.

-Deposition Killer: A feature that cross-references financial transactions with text message timestamps to find contradictions (e.g., User texts "I have no money" on Tuesday -> System flags a $5k Casino withdrawal on Wednesday).

-Sovereign Architecture: For law firms, the system supports a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) model where the entire stack runs in an air-gapped Docker container.

Stack:

-Backend: Django 5.0 (Monolith)

-Queue: Celery + Redis (for parsing 1,000+ page PDF discoveries)

-Logic: Custom Python implementation of LIBR tracing algorithms

-Security: Fernet (AES-256) encryption at rest

Try the Simulation (No Login Required): I know HN hates sign-up walls, so I built a "Live Tactical Simulation" (link in the footer) that pre-loads a fake case ("Operation Sterling") so you can play with the Asset Graph and LIBR engine immediately without registering.

I’d love feedback on the Duress implementation specifically. Is a decoy dashboard enough, or should it trigger a silent nuke of the local session storage too?

Comments

cd_mkdir•1mo ago
OP here.

Just to share a bit of the engineering headache behind this: The hardest part wasn't the Django backend, it was getting the LIBR (Lowest Intermediate Balance Rule) logic to handle edge cases in the PDF parsing.

Bank statements often group transactions by date, not time. If a user deposits $5k and withdraws $5k on the same day, the order matters for the 'dip' calculation. I ended up having to write a heuristic that forces 'Withdrawals First' (worst-case scenario for the claimant) to ensure the report stands up to conservative judicial scrutiny.

If anyone here has worked with financial event sourcing for legal compliance, I'd love to know how you handle same-day timestamp ambiguity.