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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by mckean on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:17AM (#48538155)
A simple way to prove that a piece of text, a post, a message, was written by me.

Yes, the burden should not lie on the author, and you could argue it's not even relevant. Still, the default has shifted and there's a refreshing feeling when you're forced to choose your own words.

This is not perfect. You can still find ways to have a machine write a text into this box. But what's guaranteed is the time: writing a message takes the time a human would actually need.

At the very least writtenhuman.com is a statement that the problem it's tackling is real. One with the potential to become a global crisis.

(plausibility 100/100 · mean 58 wpm · peak 108 wpm · cadence 4.5 keys/s · duration 2:56)

Verified human · www.writtenhuman.com/v/m7h8asjd

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by jjcob on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:25AM (#48538246)
I tried to verify your text and your website says "DOES NOT MATCH THIS RECEIPT"
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by mckean on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:28AM (#48538271)
yeah the thing that isn't clear you need to include the stats part in the brackets.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by jjcob on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:32AM (#48538311)
Even with the stats it doesn't work. Maybe hacker news comments don't preserve whitespace or something.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by mckean on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:35AM (#48538334)
ummm just tested, works: <copy>A simple way to prove that a piece of text, a post, a message, was written by me.

Yes, the burden should not lie on the author, and you could argue it's not even relevant. Still, the default has shifted and there's a refreshing feeling when you're forced to choose your own words.

This is not perfect. You can still find ways to have a machine write a text into this box. But what's guaranteed is the time: writing a message takes the time a human would actually need.

At the very least writtenhuman.com is a statement that the problem it's tackling is real. One with the potential to become a global crisis.

(plausibility 100/100 · mean 58 wpm · peak 108 wpm · cadence 4.5 keys/s · duration 2:56)</copy>

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by jjcob on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:34AM (#48538834)
Still doesn't work for me. Maybe it's line endings or something. I'm on Safari on macOS.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by mckean on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:14AM (#48539627)
Oh I see, yeah I'm actually experiencing the same on mobile. I'll add some trims and remove line breaks for validation. Also include the stats and reconstruct them before submission so only the text needs to be pasted. thx for the feedback!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by altmanaltman on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:48AM (#48538421)
this is interesting but it would be much better if this was like a native keyboard or something or a web plugin on browser that does this automatically instead of having to manually do it everytime. cool idea though but its an ask to open a different page just to write a post

Not verified human

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by mckean on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:14AM (#48538652)
The thing is no matter what you do it's always extra work. There are similar projects that provide sdk's that you can integrate. The goal for this project was to create something simple and to make it a topic.

Thanks for checking it out :)

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) by ikurei on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:26AM (#48552253)
It's an interesting idea, kudos.

Sadly, this will always be a game of cat and mouse. I wonder if it was ever avoidable for the internet to become a hundred of such games at once, between advertisers and ad blockers, trackers and browsers, hackers and developers, search engines and SEO experts...

If your concept took off, someone will make a program that inputs the LLMs text like a human would. It might still take some time (if it isn't possible to hack the timing records client-side), you'd probably have to get busy detecting multiple connections from the same IP, and then they'd work around it...