This project is built and maintained by a single developer — a software engineer for roughly a decade, now retired and navigating a long-term disability determination while managing ongoing medical challenges. Thanks to an Anthropic Claude Code subscription, I'm able to keep building — and this is how I spend that ability: community service tools that make human rights visible in the places where builders already spend their time.

The Human Rights Observatory evaluates Hacker News stories against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights using large language models. Each evaluation costs real API credits — multiple models, multiple passes, a continuous 24/7 pipeline. There are no ads, no tracking, no paywalls, and no VC funding. The entire service runs on personal savings and donations.

Right now, I simply can't afford the API credits to evaluate as many stories as I'd like. Every dollar directly translates into more evaluations — more stories scored, more patterns surfaced, more of the invisible made visible. Even a small contribution makes a real difference.

If you find this useful — as a research tool, a lens on media bias, or just an interesting way to think about the news — anything helps. It means more than I can say.

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The source code is on GitHub. Contributions and issue reports are welcome.