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Psi-Commit – Cryptographic Commitments Anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps

https://psicommit.com/
1•RayanOghabian•1h ago

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RayanOghabian•1h ago
I built a tool that lets you seal a prediction, hypothesis, or decision and prove you made it before the outcome without trusting any third party. The problem is that there is no simple trustless way to prove you knew something before it happened. Screenshots get faked, centralized timestamps get disputed, and you always end up asking someone to trust your word. The construction: your message is locked with HMAC-SHA256 and a 32 byte secret key generated by window.crypto.getRandomValues in the browser. The key never leaves your device. We store only the MAC. A canonical stamp file containing the commitment ID, MAC, and timestamp is SHA256 hashed and submitted to OpenTimestamps calendar servers. The resulting OTS receipt anchors the commitment to a real Bitcoin block. What it provides: cryptographic binding, cryptographic hiding, Bitcoin timestamp via OpenTimestamps, domain separation to prevent replay attacks, and constant time comparison to prevent timing attacks. What it does not provide: anonymity, forward secrecy, or message recovery if you lose your key.

AI job layoffs are here: it's time to revive the push for shorter working hours

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/16/ai-job-layoffs-push-for-shorter-working-hours
1•robtherobber•48s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the best Substack essay you've ever read?

1•readingqueue•1m ago•0 comments

Can LLMs Play the Game of Science?

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/eleusis-benchmark
1•rzk•1m ago•0 comments

Why can't he get funding and support?

https://xcancel.com/VictorTaelin/status/2032153722264928583#m
1•hmokiguess•4m ago•0 comments

2025 Turing Award for quantum information science

https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-turing
1•srvmshr•7m ago•1 comments

The Research Behind Our Auto-SLM Generator

https://neurometric.substack.com/p/the-research-behind-our-auto-slm
2•robmay•9m ago•0 comments

Amiga DevBench connects a modern host machine to an emulated (or real) Amiga

https://github.com/geekychris/amiga_mcp
1•doener•13m ago•0 comments

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
2•vismit2000•17m ago•0 comments

Octigen vs. Gamma: Why Native PowerPoint Matters More Than You Think

https://octigen.com/blog/posts/2026-03-17-gamma-alternative/
4•mrgraziani•17m ago•0 comments

WhaleIndex – Interactive ocean visualization of the billionaires

https://whaleindex.vercel.app
3•albertsimondev2•18m ago•1 comments

Open Ears, Open Mind

https://herbertlui.net/open-ears-open-mind/
2•herbertl•18m ago•0 comments

Swapping batteries for hydrogen gives drones a whole new range

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/03/swapping-batteries-for-hydrogen-gives-drones-a-whole-new...
4•giuliomagnifico•20m ago•0 comments

Loft – a statically typed language where null propagates instead of crashes

https://github.com/jjstwerff/loft
2•jjstwerff•20m ago•1 comments

Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier

https://kagifeedback.org/d/10116-kagi-assistant-standalone-subscription
2•EbNar•20m ago•1 comments

Affirm: Growth Affirmations

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happyverse.affirmations&hl=en_IN
2•MAHIMASETH26•24m ago•1 comments

The Film Experience (2013)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21l-011-the-film-experience-fall-2013/
3•num42•25m ago•0 comments

Improbable Island AI scrapbot downtime postmortem

https://www.improbableisland.com/motd.php?id=598
2•psini•25m ago•0 comments

iPhone 17e Teardown Reveals an Upgrade 16e Owners Can Use

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116245/iphone-17e-teardown-reveals-an-upgrade-16e-owners-can-actually...
2•Lwrless•28m ago•0 comments

When your AI agent needs to create an account on a new service, what happens?

1•mariusaure•29m ago•0 comments

firecracker-containerd

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-containerd
3•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

Microsoft is threatening to sue OpenAI over its $50B Amazon deal

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-threatening-to-sue-openai-over-its-50-billion-amazon-deal/
2•pjmlp•31m ago•0 comments

US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-congress-judiciary-committee-big-tech-private-communication-eu...
3•mindracer•32m ago•0 comments

BirdyChat – A minimalist Telegram-native live chat with voice-to-text feature

3•birdychat•32m ago•0 comments

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
5•dokdev•37m ago•1 comments

The World Needs Your Great Work

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-the-world-needs-your
3•jger15•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Narrate Books in Any Language

https://warblize.com/
1•on3ye•44m ago•2 comments

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI so built slop filtering

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/rozum_ai/
4•beardyw•44m ago•1 comments

From DuckDuckGo Back to DuckDuckGo via Mojeek and Kagi

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/01/from-kagi-back-to-duckduckgo/
1•ColinWright•47m ago•0 comments

Subject: I fix a thirty-year-old mistake

https://shitpost.plover.com/e/eat-gizzards.html
1•jjgreen•47m ago•0 comments

xAI Lost 10 of 12 Founders. Can Compute Replace Them?

https://www.revolutioninai.com/2026/03/xai-grok5-rebuild-founder-exodus-2026.html
3•vinodpandey7•48m ago•2 comments