Etchv vs. Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News

Add an invisible watermark to images, PDFs and video, then detect it to see which copy was shared. Forensic watermarking API with a free trial. Hello HN!The inspiration for Etchv came directly from friends who raised concerns about the growing ease of unauthorized media copying without attribution. To address this, Etchv embeds an invisible watermark inside images, PDFs, or short videos that survives modifications like screenshots, format changes, and file compression.You can try it on our homepage without signing up. There's also a live demo where a watermarked PDF page gets screenshotted and the watermark ID is still successfully recovered: https://etchv.com/demo/traceInstead of training a model from scratch...

Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News Source code: http://github.com/shawwn/sharcI had more things I wanted to do with this, but I should probably admit to myself I probably won't be.The original idea was for https://news.ycombinator.lol to be "Hacker News, but all the comments are AI." Right now it's "Hacker News, but all the comments are the same as the real HN." Hence, it's completely pointless.Special thanks to dang for collaborating -- he even suggested the name for the codebase, "sharc".Development time was about four months of near daily work: https:...