VoidAccess
open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph
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Hi HN! Im Katriel, and im a Security Researcher/Enthusiast and in the wave of AI, i wanted to build that next gen of security tooling that surpasses the current tools, and even the paid industries with an open source engine. I built MailAccess as well, which is going to be the best damn email osint tool out there, in another year. But just before building MailAccess i built VoidAccess, because i was delving a lot into DarkINT and the content inside the dark web is too difficult to navigate through for a human, so i automated that pipeline, made sure the noise was removed, and anything NSFW was filtered out, to give the analyst an overview of what is present in the dark web, without having to actually go through it manually.Very simple to run, you just run a few commands to install, and a couple to investigate. Then the engine takes over, and stops onyl when the job is done(or at a particular time limit, if set by the user).Do check it out, if that is something that interests you.Thanks to the community for giving it the love it has got till now.
HN · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 188 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: vulnerability scanning and exploitation tools · 73 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The query interface, entity graph, and open-source packaging are vibe-codeable. Reliable dark-web collection and OSINT data sources at scale are hard to build without specialist security and data-engineering expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a crawler and scraper infrastructure for Tor hidden services with proxy and anti-blocking handling, plus entity extraction and deduplication pipelines to build a graph store like Neo4j. Breach and leak data sources require access agreements or curated datasets that are hard to obtain. Security hardening and legal-risk review are also needed.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: vibe-coded, not trustworthy for dark web work, AI unreliable in dark web context, removing NSFW filtering may discard relevant intel, announcement feels AI-written and possibly fake
Feature requests: explain how identities are merged (PGP key, address, or nickname)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 257 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 258 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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