After 6 years of R&D, our small team is excited to share our project TideCloak - an IAM designed to help developers move fast without worrying about catastrophic breaches or overpowered admins with keys to the kingdom.
Traditional IAMs rely on centralized authority - admins, root certificates, and decryption keys - which create glaring vulnerabilities in a breach. To address this, we\u2019ve integrated Keycloak (Red Hat\u2019s IAM) with a decentralized key architecture powered by our (academically validated) Ineffable Cryptography.
Here\u2019s the idea: keys are split across a decentralized network (our Cybersecurity Fabric) so no one ever holds the full key. Even in a breach or F$%k up, there\u2019s no unchecked authority exposed.
Right now, TideCloak uses the Cybersecurity Fabric as an IdP, meaning users authenticate without their credentials being stored or shared. Essentially, users bring their own authority - without needing to trust anyone else to keep it safe.
Coming soon:\n- Identity Governance Administration to prevent super admin abuse.\n- User-sovereign digital assets, where assets are secured with unique decentralized keys to protect against mass breaches.
We\u2019ve just launched a free developer sandbox, and we\u2019d love your feedback:\nhttps://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted
It\u2019s still early stages, and your input will help us improve.
Thanks for taking a look - ask us anything!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: TideCloak \u2013 Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted"}},"_tags":["story","author_SaltNHash","story_42460131","show_hn"],"author":"SaltNHash","children":[42464970,42465138,42465497,42465734,42466080,42466415,42467475,42467560,42490604,42490823,42490937,42494364],"created_at":"2024-12-19T10:17:52Z","created_at_i":1734603472,"num_comments":36,"objectID":"42460131","points":54,"story_id":42460131,"story_text":"Hey HN!
After 6 years of R&D, our small team is excited to share our project TideCloak - an IAM designed to help developers move fast without worrying about catastrophic breaches or overpowered admins with keys to the kingdom.
Traditional IAMs rely on centralized authority - admins, root certificates, and decryption keys - which create glaring vulnerabilities in a breach. To address this, we\u2019ve integrated Keycloak (Red Hat\u2019s IAM) with a decentralized key architecture powered by our (academically validated) Ineffable Cryptography.
Here\u2019s the idea: keys are split across a decentralized network (our Cybersecurity Fabric) so no one ever holds the full key. Even in a breach or F$%k up, there\u2019s no unchecked authority exposed.
Right now, TideCloak uses the Cybersecurity Fabric as an IdP, meaning users authenticate without their credentials being stored or shared. Essentially, users bring their own authority - without needing to trust anyone else to keep it safe.
Coming soon:\n- Identity Governance Administration to prevent super admin abuse.\n- User-sovereign digital assets, where assets are secured with unique decentralized keys to protect against mass breaches.
We\u2019ve just launched a free developer sandbox, and we\u2019d love your feedback:\nhttps://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted
It\u2019s still early stages, and your input will help us improve.
Thanks for taking a look - ask us anything!","title":"Show HN: TideCloak \u2013 Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty","updated_at":"2025-07-13T19:25:50Z","url":"https://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mooseburger"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"I have some idle time and have been asked to look into producing a code review checklist. This is quite an interesting matter, as to me, much like programming, code reviewing is a highly idiosyncratic, ineffable, thing, and so I wonder whether the community here has somehow managed to formalize it.
There are obvious things to put in such a checklist (e.g. short and legible methods, check for potential null reference exceptions) but sometimes even glaring bugs can sneak through code review. A recent example: in a PR, I noticed a method call had been deleted and replaced with nothing, and asked the developer about it. The developer assured me the functionality that the method had provided was implemented elsewhere in the PR, and that indeed seemed to be the case.
Turns out, that other implementation did not in fact cover all the functionality the deleted method call had provided, and an entire feature was lost due to that PR. In light of this, something else that could go in a checklist is "when a method call is deleted, verify what the method did". Another is that deleting that method call meant the method had no references (dead code), yet was not deleted, so neither I nor the other reviewers saw the method body in the diff, which would have shown that a feature was being lost. Another item could be "If method calls are deleted, check for dead code".
Do you have a formal method for conducting code reviews? What things do you look for?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you conduct code reviews?"}},"_tags":["story","author_mooseburger","story_19107821","ask_hn"],"author":"mooseburger","children":[19108992,19109649,19112782,19113233,19114284,19120165,19121899],"created_at":"2019-02-07T19:37:42Z","created_at_i":1549568262,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"19107821","points":12,"story_id":19107821,"story_text":"I have some idle time and have been asked to look into producing a code review checklist. This is quite an interesting matter, as to me, much like programming, code reviewing is a highly idiosyncratic, ineffable, thing, and so I wonder whether the community here has somehow managed to formalize it.
There are obvious things to put in such a checklist (e.g. short and legible methods, check for potential null reference exceptions) but sometimes even glaring bugs can sneak through code review. A recent example: in a PR, I noticed a method call had been deleted and replaced with nothing, and asked the developer about it. The developer assured me the functionality that the method had provided was implemented elsewhere in the PR, and that indeed seemed to be the case.
Turns out, that other implementation did not in fact cover all the functionality the deleted method call had provided, and an entire feature was lost due to that PR. In light of this, something else that could go in a checklist is "when a method call is deleted, verify what the method did". Another is that deleting that method call meant the method had no references (dead code), yet was not deleted, so neither I nor the other reviewers saw the method body in the diff, which would have shown that a feature was being lost. Another item could be "If method calls are deleted, check for dead code".
Do you have a formal method for conducting code reviews? What things do you look for?","title":"Ask HN: How do you conduct code reviews?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:39:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bbertucc"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"A friend said "no salary" startups succeed less than startups where founders take salary. I can't find any info to confirm / deny this.
My case: My company has no revenue yet. I have enough savings to live comfortably for several years. Raising money takes time from developing the product and also means I give away equity. A salary would probably focus my attention more on the company, but "focus" seems ineffable.
What else should I consider about taking a salary during a pre-revenue stage?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Should I take a salary for my pre-revenue startup?"}},"_tags":["story","author_bbertucc","story_27425854","ask_hn"],"author":"bbertucc","children":[27425873,27434976,27435500,27442075],"created_at":"2021-06-07T18:03:24Z","created_at_i":1623089004,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"27425854","points":3,"story_id":27425854,"story_text":"A friend said "no salary" startups succeed less than startups where founders take salary. I can't find any info to confirm / deny this.
My case: My company has no revenue yet. I have enough savings to live comfortably for several years. Raising money takes time from developing the product and also means I give away equity. A salary would probably focus my attention more on the company, but "focus" seems ineffable.
What else should I consider about taking a salary during a pre-revenue stage?","title":"Ask HN: Should I take a salary for my pre-revenue startup?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:42:20Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"SQL2219"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.ineffableisland.com/2020/10/chemist-uses-co2-to-convert-seawater.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_SQL2219","story_24714760"],"author":"SQL2219","children":[24714781,24715663,24715679,24715846,24716576,24717893,24717988,24718205,24719599,24719607,24719885,24719907,24724262],"created_at":"2020-10-08T01:34:41Z","created_at_i":1602120881,"num_comments":49,"objectID":"24714760","points":217,"story_id":24714760,"title":"Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water","updated_at":"2025-07-31T15:01:16Z","url":"https://www.ineffableisland.com/2020/10/chemist-uses-co2-to-convert-seawater.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"brandonb"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"A Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"}},"_tags":["story","author_brandonb","story_47922664"],"author":"brandonb","children":[47925841,47927071],"created_at":"2026-04-27T15:09:21Z","created_at_i":1777302561,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"47922664","points":7,"story_id":47922664,"title":"A Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path","updated_at":"2026-04-28T21:15:31Z","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mikhael"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"}},"_tags":["story","author_mikhael","story_47955218"],"author":"mikhael","created_at":"2026-04-29T21:50:20Z","created_at_i":1777499420,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47955218","points":5,"story_id":47955218,"title":"The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path","updated_at":"2026-04-30T06:37:51Z","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"fmihaila"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"}},"_tags":["story","author_fmihaila","story_47929069"],"author":"fmihaila","created_at":"2026-04-28T00:35:43Z","created_at_i":1777336543,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47929069","points":3,"story_id":47929069,"title":"The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path","updated_at":"2026-04-28T07:09:58Z","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/david-silver-ai-ineffable-intelligence-reinforcement-learning/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ojarow"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Language doesn't perfectly describe consciousness. 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I've spent the last 3 hours with the model learning about Chinese history and culture, including getting recommendations for literature, films, documentaries, and first hand accounts of specific periods. Academic texts from the 1910s and niche foreign language films with only a handful of English reviews were offered without a single hallucination. Historical analyses were nuanced and contextual but highly factual -- I stopped cross-checking info about an hour in, but fabrications were again not an issue.
In addition and in general, and across several conversations on different domains, it exhibits a different caliber of reasoning. It can think strategically about business and markets, it can actually capture something of the essence of an author/poet's voice, and give highly thoughtful critical analysis of texts. It can follow instructions and grok things very quickly.
Beyond that, it has an ineffably human quality that doesn't come through with competitors. Discussions feel vibrant and dynamic, with none of the robotically dull tonality of ChatGPT. And I can't stress enough the difference it makes experientially to not always be second guessing the validity of the output. ChatGPT is great but the spell is broken any time it veers into its own imagined world, here the trust is seldomly misplaced.
I'm sure if you actively went searching for shortcomings or hallucinations you could conjure them, but this thing could be the backbone of a state of the art learning platform today.
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In addition and in general, and across several conversations on different domains, it exhibits a different caliber of reasoning. It can think strategically about business and markets, it can actually capture something of the essence of an author/poet's voice, and give highly thoughtful critical analysis of texts. It can follow instructions and grok things very quickly.
Beyond that, it has an ineffably human quality that doesn't come through with competitors. Discussions feel vibrant and dynamic, with none of the robotically dull tonality of ChatGPT. And I can't stress enough the difference it makes experientially to not always be second guessing the validity of the output. ChatGPT is great but the spell is broken any time it veers into its own imagined world, here the trust is seldomly misplaced.
I'm sure if you actively went searching for shortcomings or hallucinations you could conjure them, but this thing could be the backbone of a state of the art learning platform today.
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We integrate Tools, Agents, and Durable Workflows in a code-first way to create "Durable Agentic Workflows".
Basically:
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2. Our agent abstraction dynamically searches through all the tools, and calls them in a multi-step reasoning process.
3. Durable workflows help you string together agent interactions using "workflow as code".
The control plane handles the orchestration of the workflow and the agents, and we've done some things to failover on machine stalls, tool failures, and other disasters.
We also use long-polling, so workflows and tools don't need any network ingress.
There's a lot more to it, but we're seeking any early feedback you have."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"Show HN: Inferable \u2013 Build Reliable AI Agents with Durable Execution"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable"}},"_tags":["story","author_johnjcsmith","story_42966703","show_hn"],"author":"johnjcsmith","created_at":"2025-02-06T21:32:27Z","created_at_i":1738877547,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"42966703","points":4,"story_id":42966703,"story_text":"Hey HN,
We've been trying to make agents "programmatically useful" and built an open-source AI-native workflow orchestrator called Inferable.
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Basically:
1. We provide SDKs to wrap your existing code as tools.
2. Our agent abstraction dynamically searches through all the tools, and calls them in a multi-step reasoning process.
3. Durable workflows help you string together agent interactions using "workflow as code".
The control plane handles the orchestration of the workflow and the agents, and we've done some things to failover on machine stalls, tool failures, and other disasters.
We also use long-polling, so workflows and tools don't need any network ingress.
There's a lot more to it, but we're seeking any early feedback you have.","title":"Show HN: Inferable \u2013 Build Reliable AI Agents with Durable Execution","updated_at":"2025-02-07T03:07:15Z","url":"https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lunarcave"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Doing on-device RAG with SQLite and Ollama"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/sqlite-rag"}},"_tags":["story","author_lunarcave","story_42159721"],"author":"lunarcave","created_at":"2024-11-16T22:00:19Z","created_at_i":1731794419,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"42159721","points":6,"story_id":42159721,"title":"Doing on-device RAG with SQLite and Ollama","updated_at":"2024-11-17T13:14:13Z","url":"https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/sqlite-rag"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lunarcave"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"You don't need tool calling"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ineffable"],"value":"https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/you-dont-need-tool-calling"}},"_tags":["story","author_lunarcave","story_42791582"],"author":"lunarcave","created_at":"2025-01-22T11:25:49Z","created_at_i":1737545149,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"42791582","points":2,"story_id":42791582,"title":"You don't need tool calling","updated_at":"2025-01-22T11:31:52Z","url":"https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/you-dont-need-tool-calling"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":23,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=Ineffable&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":8,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":154,"roundTrip":22},"afterFetch":{"format":{"total":1}},"fetch":{"query":5,"total":6},"total":8},"query":"Ineffable","serverTimeMS":163}