A proxy that scans LLM requests/attach for secrets before they reach the model
Detected credentials become stable placeholders and the request continues. A screenshot or PDF contains a key? preflight decodes it, runs local extraction and OCR, and sanitizes it where supported. When inspection or safe rewriting is impossible, the request stays grounded.
- ▪Detected credentials become stable placeholders and the request continues.
- ▪A screenshot or PDF contains a key? preflight decodes it, runs local extraction and OCR, and sanitizes it where supported.
- ▪When inspection or safe rewriting is impossible, the request stays grounded.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,724 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/ghuntley/preflight |
| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:47:47 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-20T14:53:46.844Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-20T14:53:46.844Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | fsAy1IJY-k9k · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
preflight A local proxy that scans LLM requests and attachments for secrets before they reach the model. ┌────────────────────────────────────┐ │ preflight │ │ │ coding harness ──────►│ /v1/responses │ (any supported │ /v1/chat/completions │────► underclass ────► model OpenAI-compatible │ /v1/models │ client) │ │ │ decode · inspect · redact/block │ │ local OCR · content-addressed │ │ cache · structured logging │ └────────────────────────────────────┘ 127.0.0.1:8081 127.0.0.1:8080 Someone pastes an .env file? Detected credentials become stable placeholders and the request continues. A screenshot or PDF contains a key? preflight decodes it, runs local extraction and OCR, and sanitizes it where supported. When inspection or safe rewriting is impossible, the request stays grounded.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.