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nsfwjs

NSFW detection on the client-side via TensorFlow.js

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NSFW detection on the client-side via TensorFlow.js

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-02-20 14:57:40 UTC to 2025-01-28 08:35:39 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Follow-up question: what work has been done on client-side moderation? I know this gets dangerously close to the kind of content scanning that eg apple has tried (to very detrimental results), but hear me out: I really think this is a prerequisite to end-to-end encryption on a social network (there has to be some level of protection; even if 100% of users report 100% of bad content, imagine scrolling a feed and stumbling upon CSAM simply because you were the first person to see it). I also also think it's possible to strike a balance that preserves user agency while still protecting them, by simply inserting a manual reporting step. So, for example, potentially problematic content gets put behind an interstitial with a content warning and options to view, hide, report, etc. But again, this requires client-side content classification. I'm
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aware of eg NSFWJS, which is a tensorflowJS model [1]. Is there anything else that, say, can also do violence/gore detection? [1] https://github.com/infinitered/nsfwjs
In Ask HN: What do you use for content moderation of UGC?

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