Show HN: A CLI that fact-checks text using a 500MB local model and web search

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, local-ai, fact-checking, python, text-processing

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

fftext is a CLI tool that performs text summarization, explanation, fact-checking, and translation using a local 500MB CPU-only model, with optional web search for fact-checking. It is interesting for offering offline AI text processing with no GPU or cloud dependency, and a unique fact-check pipeline that extracts, ranks, and web-verifies claims with citations.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext · Python · Apache-2.0 · 17 stars

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