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Show HN: Cruxible Core – Deterministic decision engine with receipts for agents
by rmalone1097 | 2026-03-05 18:47:20+00:00
Cruxible Core is an open source MCP server/runtime that lets you define a decision domain in YAML (entities, relationships, queries, constraints), then run queries deterministically via AI agents (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor).

Every query returns a DAG receipt showing exactly how the result was derived (nodes traversed, filters/constraints applied, outputs). The goal is to make agent decisions auditable and reproducible instead of prompt-dependent.

I built this because LLMs are strong at orchestration and general reasoning, but high-stakes decision logic often needs deterministic execution and explicit proof trails. Cruxible receipts are meant to be audited, replayed, and challenged.

There’s also a feedback loop: users can approve/correct/reject edges and update confidence/evidence, so domain knowledge and decision trails compound across sessions.

Demos included:
- Drug interactions (DDinter + CYP450)
- OFAC sanctions screening (ownership chains)
- MITRE ATT&CK threat modeling

Known limitations:
- Candidate edge generation is still basic (property matching, shared-neighbor analysis, AI suggestions)
- No application/action layer yet (e.g., transaction blocking, clinical alerts)
- --limit queries currently persist full receipts instead of pruning to returned rows (fix planned)

Repo: https://github.com/cruxible-ai/cruxible-core

Thank you for reading! Feedback I’d value most:
1. What limitation makes this less useful for your domain?
2. Any setup/usability issues you hit?
3. Structural criticism of the approach
by observationist | 2026-03-05 18:47:33+00:00
Benchmarks don't capture a lot - relative response times, vibes, what unmeasured capabilities are jagged and which are smooth, etc. I find there's a lot of difference between models - there are things which Grok is better than ChatGPT for that the benchmarks get inverted, and vice versa. There's also the UI and tools at hand - ChatGPT image gen is just straight up better, but Grok Imagine does better videos, and is faster.

Gemini and Claude also have their strengths, apparently Claude handles real world software better, but with the extended context and improvements to Codex, ChatGPT might end up taking the lead there as well.

I don't think the linear scoring on some of the things being measured is quite applicable in the ways that they're being used, either - a 1% increase for a given benchmark could mean a 50% capabilities jump relative to a human skill level. If this rate of progress is steady, though, this year is gonna be crazy.
by softwaredoug | 2026-03-05 18:47:34+00:00
Basically the implication - most software has a huge second mover advantage. The creator of software puts the work in (AI assisted or not). The second mover can use an LLM to do a straightforward clone.

If you have a company that depends on software, the rest of the business (service, reliability, etc) better be rock solid because you can be guaranteed someone will do a rewrite of your stack.
by tuckerman | 2026-03-05 18:47:47+00:00
I think for brand new computers/builds that's correct but where it hit me was wanting to upgrade an existing desktop. I already have more DDR4 RAM than I need and would have been willing to purchase a new CPU/motherboard and being forced to also purchase new RAM at the same time made it too big of a price tag all at once. I just found the best zen 3 cpu I could on ebay and called it a day.

I think your point still stands overall for AMD's business though, I assume a vast majority of CPUs are purchased in new desktops?
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-05 18:48:08+00:00
I've been using Codex for software development personally (I have a ChatGPT account), and I use Claude at work (since it is provided by my employer).

I find both Codex and Claude Opus perform at a similar level, and in some ways I actually prefer Codex (I keep hitting quota limits in Opus and have to revert back to Sonnet).

If your question is related to morality (the thing about US politics, DoD contract and so on)... I am not from the US, and I don't care about its internal politics. I also think both OpenAI and Anthropic are evil, and the world would be better if neither existed.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-05 18:48:17+00:00
>I did engage, by pointing out that it wasn't relevant nor a realistic scenario for a competent sysadmin.

>Why would I know what their internal operations are?

i mean... you must, right? you know that once-a-day snapshots is not relevant to this specific incident. you know that their sysadmins are apparently competent. i just assumed you must have some sort of insider information to be so confident.
by cj | 2026-03-05 18:49:00+00:00
I'm sometimes surprised how much detail ChatGPT will go into without giving any dislaimers.

I very frequently copy/paste the same prompts into Gemini to compare, and Gemini often flat out refuses to engage while ChatGPT will happily make medical recommendations.

I also have a feeling it has to do with my account history and heavy use of project context. It feels like when ChatGPT is overloaded with too much context, it might let the guardrails sort of slide away. That's just my feeling though.

Today was particularly bad... I uploaded 2 PDFs of bloodwork and asked ChatGPT to transcribe it, and it spit out blood test results that it found in the project context from an earlier date, not the one attached to the prompt. That was weird.
by Terr_ | 2026-03-05 18:49:52+00:00
> It's not insider trading.

One might argue it should fall under a different technical label, but whatever label one uses (A) it stinks of corruption and (B) it's only the tip of the iceberg.

People entrusted with government authority to do work for the public shouldn't be personally profiting from how they decide to wield that authority. Imagine a policeman that arrests people while placing bets about how long that person will be jailed, what they'll be charged with, or whether they'll be convicted.

The objection that "it's unfair, they know something other bettors don't" occurs first not because it's the biggest issue, but because it's easier to prove.

The bigger problem is making improper decisions with their work-powers in order to personally profit, a trust and separation which they've already destroyed by placing the bets in the first place.
by HardCodedBias | 2026-03-05 18:50:05+00:00
We'll have to wait a day or two, maybe a week or two, to determine if this is more capable in coding than 5.3, which seems to be the economically valuable capability at this time.

In terms of writing and research even Gemini, with a good prompt, is close to useable. That's likely not a differentiator.
by bombcar | 2026-03-05 18:50:26+00:00
There's a decent video of someone playing WoW Classic for the first time - https://youtu.be/NjQgoaagS-E

And it basically came down to "classic WoW was simpler and for new players provided something that modern WoW doesn't/can't really - especially the spontaneous community.

WoW started out as an MMORP, but it's really a massively single player game until you're top level anymore.
by freejazz | 2026-03-05 18:50:31+00:00
>Also this comment where backend code could be reproduced wholesale from the APIs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259485

Do you mean deduced instead of reproduced?

>Agreed, but as we're finding out, everyday code is now cheap enough that there will be questions about how much of it is worth protecting... and, given the unclear stance on AI-generated code, maybe even if it is protectable at all.

AI generated code is likely not protectable at all under copyright, but that was expected by anyone who follows this area of the law seriously.

> Yes, the bar for patents is way too high for every day code, but you can always get one by making the claims narrow enough.

Not really, and if you did it would likely not be enforceable because the getting past a §101 motion isn't likely.

>Note, I'm not necessarily happy about all this, this is just how I think it could play out absent larger changes to IP laws.

I'm not sure any of it is a bad thing. Why should AI generated code be protectable under copyright? It can still be protected by trade secret, which seems fairly sufficient for what it ultimately is.
by harambae | 2026-03-05 18:51:18+00:00
> Maybe "Artisanal Coding" will be a thing in the future?

Steve Gibson was hand-coding assembly (often beautifully and making for very compact binaries) long after almost everyone else had switched to C language or higher in abstraction. This is the closest analogy I can think of it.

It had it's own cult following, but I wouldn't say it was a massive movement.
by jbdamask | 2026-03-05 18:51:19+00:00
I should probably just make a new post but if anyone is still watching, I've made a couple of changes and have more coming:

1) Modes. You can now choose between Native, Non-Technical, or Kid-Friendly mode. Here are results for the same paper
Native: https://test.nowigetit.us/pages/62ef3639-02f0-472b-b0a6-79f6...
Non-technical: https://test.nowigetit.us/pages/eba32173-269f-4b5c-9df1-c782...
Kid-friendly: https://nowigetit.us/pages/3c413c94-d843-4e84-8805-22af16021...

2) I'm working on user accounts with private galleries

3) Getting closer to opening this up with a cost-plus pricing model. Hopefully by next week but we'll see.
by ibejoeb | 2026-03-05 18:51:39+00:00
Interesting angle. Everyone has already pointed out that there are backups basically everywhere, and from an information standpoint, shaving off a day (or whatever) of edits just to get to a known-good point is effectively zero cost. But I wonder what the cost is of the potentially bad data getting baked into those models, and if anyone really cares enough to scrap it.
Show HN: Sous Clip – Extract recipes from short-form cooking videos
by derpyyy_ | 2026-03-05 18:51:44+00:00
Greetings HN!

Its my first post here, and I'm delighted to announce a cool self hosted, privacy-focused app I've been working for a while - Sous Clip!

The idea is simple: Share reels/shorts/TikToks to the app, it automatically extracts ingredients, cooking instructions and anything else using an AI provider of your choice (ChatGPT, Claude and Ollama for now, more coming soon!) and stores is locally for ease of access. It also comes with a PWA to easily share reels and access stored recipes through your mobile phone.

From what research I've done, there are applications that already do this, but are paid services and require you to store everything on their servers. This app gives you the freedom to do what you want with this!

Glad to hear feedback and feature requests!

Direct GitHub link - https://github.com/SachinVenugopalan30/sous-clip
by beepbooptheory | 2026-03-05 18:52:12+00:00
I think it's very weird but valid I guess to want to be just atomic individual in constant LLM feedback loop. But, at risk of sounding too trite and wholesome here, what about caring for others, the world at large? If you wanna get your thing to rewrite curl or something, that's again really weird but fine, but just don't share it or try to make money off of it. Isn't that like even the rational position here if you still wanna have good training materials for future models? These need not be conflicting interests! We can all be in this together, even if you wanna totally fork yourself into your own LLM output world.

What happened to sticking up for the underdogs? For the goodness of well-made software in itself, for itself? Isn't that what gave you all the stuff you have now? Don't you feel at least a little grateful, if maybe not obliged? Maybe we can start there?
by sentinel_ai_act | 2026-03-05 18:52:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a way to automate the heavy lifting of the EU AI Act for engineering teams. Most "AI Governance" tools are just high-level dashboards, so I built Sentinel-AI-Compliance.

It’s a GitHub Action powered by a WASM-compiled binary. It follows a 90/10 rule: 90% of the audit is solved deterministically (Regex/Tree-sitter) for $0 cost, and AI is only used as a "higher instance" for the remaining 10%.

To test it, I ran Sentinel against 265 high-profile AI repositories (including vLLM, Dify, and Microsoft projects). The results: Over 90% hit a 100/100 Risk Score, primarily due to missing Art. 10 (Data Governance) and Art. 14 (Human Oversight) manifests.

Why WASM?

Privacy-First: The binary runs entirely within your CI/CD pipeline. Your code never leaves your infrastructure.*

Speed: Scans manifest files in milliseconds.*

Deterministic: No LLM hallucinations in the compliance trail.*

This is an independent engineering project focusing on making compliance a "git push" away rather than a legal nightmare.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the deterministic vs. AI approach to compliance!
by kbolino | 2026-03-05 18:52:44+00:00
I picked hosting because it's a line item that exists across all of their budgets, it's a rough proxy for a web business's non-salary expenses, it's a big part of what you think you're donating to based upon Wikipedia's own language in their fundraising drives, and if nothing else, it's way more forgiving to the growth of their expenses than consumer price inflation is.

Ultimately every person has to decide for themselves whether they think WMF is a worthy recipient for their donations, but it is in no way operating on a shoestring budget nor staffed by volunteers anymore.
by verdverm | 2026-03-05 18:52:58+00:00
One only needs to look to Ukraine for how this might play out in the long-run, remixed a bit.

1. Neither side has been unable to stop the other from mass producing drones. Too easy to build in small facilities, whack-a-mole scenario.

2. Interceptors will become depleted, more "squeakers" will get through as time goes on.

Some graphs: https://bsky.app/search?q=ukraine+drone+graph
by perfectstorm | 2026-03-05 18:53:12+00:00
this reminds me of the Indian government's (read Modi's) demonetization efforts of 2016 which caused 80+ deaths and huge headaches for the common people. In the end, more than 99.3% of the demonetized money came back in circulation. Elect a clown, expect a circus. true for the oldest democracy in the world and also true for the largest democracy.
by cj | 2026-03-05 18:53:53+00:00
One opinion you can form in under an hour is... why are they using GPT-4o to rate the bias of new models?

> assess harmful stereotypes by grading differences in how a model responds

> Responses are rated for harmful differences in stereotypes using GPT-4o, whose ratings were shown to be consistent with human ratings

Are we seriously using old models to rate new models?
by lightedman | 2026-03-05 18:53:55+00:00
"I never developed with Flash but my understanding is that "modern web" can do everything Flash was used for."

True, it can, BUT what's lacking in the total arena is actual authoring and development toolchains, which is what Flash packaged all in one single bundle.

I'm not trying to install 4 or 5 different things, along with all of their dependencies, just to make some 200MB thing that could have been done in 20MB and one program with Flash.
by KamilMalicki | 2026-03-05 18:54:03+00:00
I wanted to share a personal project I've been working on: MicWM (Minimalist C Window Manager).

I built this because I firmly believe that RAM is for processing, not for desktop animations. It’s an ultra-lightweight, spartan WM written in pure C using the Xlib library, designed for speed, zero bloat, and total user control.

If you are a fan of the suckless philosophy (dwm, st, etc.), you might feel right at home here.
The Core Highlights:

Featherweight: The memory footprint is hovering around just 2 MB.

Suckless Configuration: Everything is configured via config.h and compiled at runtime.

Brutal Window Management: Instead of asking nicely, MicWM uses XKillClient for aggressive process termination (Super + Q) to instantly free up resources.

Window Locking: Added a feature (Super + D) to lock/unlock windows to easily remove the cursor from apps that try to grab it.

Built-in Essentials: Handles dynamic status bar updates via xsetroot, simple custom autostart (~/.autoconfigscriptmicwm), media/brightness keys out of the box, and a customizable border "glow".

How it works under the hood:

It's a floating window manager by default. You can easily drag windows around with Super + Left Click, resize with Super + Right Click, and force-fullscreen any app removing all borders with Super + Shift + F.

I've made sure to keep the dependencies minimal (mainly libx11-dev, gcc, make).

You can check out the source code, full keybindings, and installation instructions here:
https://github.com/KamilMalicki/MicWM

I would love to hear your thoughts, get some feedback on the code, or just see someone else give it a spin!

Cheers,
Kamil Malicki
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-03-05 18:54:32+00:00
You said:

> LLMs saving engineers and developers time is an unfounded claim

By whom exactly? If I say it saves me time, and another developer says the same, and so on, than it is categorically not unfounded. In fact, it's the opposite.

You've completely missed the point if you don't understand how telling other people that their own experience in such a large field is "unfounded" simply because it doesn't line up with your experience.

> we have a way to go before we can say anything concretely

No YOU do. It's quite apparent to me how it can save time in the myriad of things I need to perform as a software developer (and have been doing).
by 3371 | 2026-03-05 18:54:43+00:00
It's pretty much WIP but if you are interested here is the repo.
https://github.com/No3371/zoh

The points you brought up all are valid. Lexer, parser and general concepts are language-agnostic, yes, and I wasn't talking about how the implementation is different.

When I said "you can tell they sometimes get confused and have trouble to comply to the foreign language spec and design", I was thinking about the many times they just fail to write in my language even when provided will full language specs. LLMs don't "think" and boilerplate is easy for LLMs because highly similar syntax structure even identical code exist in their training data, they are kind of just copying stuff. But that doesn't work that well when they are tasked to write in a original language that is... too creative.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-05 18:55:13+00:00
> "We want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going to lead Iran into the future," Trump said.

> "We don't have to go back every five years and do this again and again ... Somebody that's going to be great for the people, great for the country

The US should be pushing for democratic elections. We don't like foreign non-interference in our own elections.

Foreign interference in US elections for Trump from the likes of Internet Research Agency (Putin, Prigozhin) and SCL Group / Cambridge Analytica (Bannon, Mercer, Nix, Oakes) is offensive.
by therealpygon | 2026-03-05 18:55:14+00:00
Take AI out…if a person can do it, which they can, the situation hasn’t changed. Further, it was a person who did it, with the assistance of AI. Also, the concept that you “can’t be exposed to the code before writing a compatible alternative” is utterly false in their arguments. In fact, one could take every single interface definition they have defined to communicate and use those interfaces directly to write their own, because in fact this i(programmatic) interface code is not covered by copyright (with an implicit fair use exemption due to the face the software cannot operate without activating said interfaces). The Java lawsuit set that as precedent with JDK. A person could have absolutely rewritten this software using the interfaces and their knowledge, which is perfectly legal if they don’t literally copy and re-word code. Now, if it IS simply re-worded copies of the same code and otherwise the entire project structure is basically the same, it’s a different story. That doesn’t sound like what happened.

Finally, how exactly do people think corporations rewrite portions of code that were contributed before re-licensing under a private license? It is ABSOLUTELY possible to rewrite code and relicense it.

Edit: Further, so these people think you contribute to a project, that project is beholden to your contribution permanently and it can never be excised? That seems like it would blatantly violate their original persons rights to exercise their own control of the code without those contributions, which is exactly the purpose of a rewrite.
by legitster | 2026-03-05 18:55:15+00:00
I work with Ad Data a lot in my job, and there's a lot of misconceptions about what this data that journalists love to propogate:

The location data in these networks is very inaccurate. Your OS and browser actually do a pretty good job of locking down your location data unless you give explicit permission. It's in the ad network's interests to lie about the quality of their data - so a lot of the "location" data is going to be a vaguely accurate guess based on your IP address.

But also, location data is really important to ads right now because, contrary to common perception, per user tracking is very, very hard. Each SDK might be tattling on you, but unless you give them a key to match you across apps, each signal from each app is unique. Which is why you are often served advertisements based on what other people on your network is searching - it's much easier to just blast everyone at that IP address than it is to find that specific user or device again in the data stream.

Bidstream data in particular is very fraught. You're only getting the active data at the point the add is served, but it's not easy to aggregate in any way. You'll be counting the same person separately dozens or hundreds of times with different identifiers for each. The data you get from something like Mobilewalla is not useful for tracking individuals so much as it's useful for finding patterns.

I think it's pretty telling from the few examples shared about how agencies actually use the data:

>"CBP uses the information to “look for cellphone activity in unusual places,” including unpopulated portions of the US-Mexico border."

>According to the Wall Street Journal, the IRS tried to use Venntel’s data to track individual suspects, but gave up when it couldn’t locate its targets in the company’s dataset.

>In March 2021, SOCOM told Vice that the purpose of the contract was to “evaluate” the feasibility of using A6 services in an “overseas operating environment,” and that the government was no longer executing the contract

Something is going to have to be figured out about this data - realistically the only way is a sunset on customized advertisements. However, I would personally not be worried (yet) that the government is going to be able to identify an individual and track them down using these public sources as they currently are.
by alexruf | 2026-03-05 18:55:30+00:00
I absolutely disagree. Tools should always be built for humans, not for machines! Believe it or not, I'm still one of those people who is actually capable of operating their own computer and doing meaningful work without any AI assistant (and I am proud of it). If that possibility or ability is taken away from me because the applications on my computer can only be operated through an AI — then I'm out and start a carer in woodworking or something.