OpenHack
OSS security scanner, 40x cheaper, on par with Opus 4.6
Details
- External ID
- 48404357
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenHack
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6509562841530054
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source security scanner for code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end and orchestrator wrapper are straightforward, but building a production-grade code security scanner matching frontier LLM accuracy requires custom taint analysis, AST parsing, and rigorous benchmark datasets.
What it would actually take: Requires tree-sitter or LSP-based static analysis combined with multi-step LLM verification pipelines to minimize false positives, along with an orchestration runner for large repositories. Achieving near-frontier model quality at 1/40th cost necessitates prompt distillation, smaller specialized fine-tuned models, and extensive benchmark validation against CVE datasets.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #200 of 569 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 216 days after the earliest competitor.
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