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Show HN: SecMask – a 66M parameter model for finding secrets in source code

https://github.com/AndrewAndrewsen/secmask

I started this project just to learn how to train and fine-tune models. I published my first version distilbert-secret-masker which currently averages 228 downloads per month. Some security company used it in a advertisement benchmark for their product, which it got the lowest score, but they called it one of the "five leading open-source scanners". So through spite I updated the model and...

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Capitalism implodes on itself, just as predicted..
Read Marx, he predicted so many things that would happen during the late stage capitalism phase.
Re:New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:53AM (#48857885)
true, but it was an occupation tho. They had their own homes and made the questionable decision to stay there. ':)
Re:New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:01AM (#48842981)
they did
Awesome project! I recently ran a (semi-)crowdsourced quality benchmarking for models ≤20b

How do you benchmark them? This would be awesome to implement at the page as well. I will link to this project at https://mlemarena.top/