Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it
Explain anythingon your screen.Drag a box around whatever is confusing. Then it freezes the screen, you drag a box around the part you care about, and an answer streams into a panel beside it. None of it was thinking about your problem.The cost is not the minute.
- ▪Explain anythingon your screen.Drag a box around whatever is confusing.
- ▪Then it freezes the screen, you drag a box around the part you care about, and an answer streams into a panel beside it.
- ▪None of it was thinking about your problem.The cost is not the minute.
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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 | Squint |
| Canonical URL | https://heysquint.com/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:29:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-27T19:51:06.322Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-27T19:51:06.322Z |
| 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 | iYb4R9A39nb6 · 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
Explain anythingon your screen.Drag a box around whatever is confusing. The answer appears beside it — no switching apps, no describing what you are looking at, no chat window to feed.Microsoft StoresoonDownload for WindowsGet startedWindowsLinuxmacOS coming soonFree plan, no cardSee Squint at workCaptured on WindowsWhat is this place?Who painted this?How do I make it?Which one do I download?What Squint isA desktop app that explains whatever you're looking at.Squint is a small program that sits in your tray and does nothing until you press its hotkey. Then it freezes the screen, you drag a box around the part you care about, and an answer streams into a panel beside it. That is the whole product.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Squint.
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