Large-scale digital activism coordination without centralized platform

“Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search capabilities. Problem: I wanted to search through newspaper archives, but when I tried every service only lets you search for keywords and dates, and gives you back raw images of th”

“Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism Hi HN, I’m a 75-year-old former fishmonger from Japan, currently working on compensation claims for victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Witnessing social divisions and bureaucratic limitations firsthand, I realized we need a new way for people to express their will without being “disposable.” To address this, I designed the Virtual Protest Protocol (VPP) ? an open-source framework for large-scale, 2D avatar-bas”

“Show HN: Mcptube – Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea applied to YouTube videos I watch a lot of Stanford/Berkeley lectures and YouTube content on AI agents, MCP, and security. Got tired of scrubbing through hour-long videos to find one explanation. Built v1 of mcptube a few months ago. It performs transcript search and implements Q A as an MCP server. It got traction (34 stars, my first open-source PR, some notable stargazers like CEO of Trail of Bits). But v1 re-searched raw chunks from scratch eve”