{"slug": "show-hn-flint", "title": "Show HN: Flint", "summary": "Flint, a self-hosted neural network that forecasts stock prices and explains its reasoning, was released on Hacker News. The tool reads live market data, predicts the next hour for a basket of stocks, and generates a daily brief using a local language model via Ollama, with all data and keys staying on the user's machine. It trains online, recalibrates forecasts hourly, and includes a dashboard with candlestick charts, a control panel streaming the model's 'consciousness', and a panel of investor personas built from 13F filings.", "body_md": "Flint is a self-hosted neural network that reads live market data, forecasts the next hour for a basket of stocks, and shows its reasoning as it goes. A local model even writes the daily brief. It runs on your machine and your keys stay with you.\n\nA forecasting model, a trading dashboard, and a window into the model's head, in one thing you run yourself.\n\nIt trains online as its forecasts mature, and its calibration keeps it honest. When it has no real edge it holds, instead of trading noise.\n\nEvery stock gets a candlestick chart with MACD and a forecast fan. Cards rank by urgency and reorder in real time, and any chart flips between 5 and 1 minute bars.\n\nA control panel streams the model's consciousness across eight consoles, and a Console tab tails everything at once: the feed, the features, the forecasts, the policy, the training.\n\nSmall models summarize the tape, the macro backdrop, positioning and the smart money. A larger local model turns those notes into a plain newspaper column. It all runs through Ollama, so nothing leaves the machine.\n\nA panel of well-known investors, built from their real 13F filings and documented style, nudges the model. Burry, Buffett, Ackman, Icahn and others.\n\nBreadth, sector rotation, volatility and a large movers watchlist give you and the model the full picture. Penny and small-cap movers included.\n\nEverything runs on your machine. API keys sit in gitignored files and only ever talk to their own provider.\n\nA first-run benchmark sizes the network to your hardware and uses the GPU when there is one, so it runs on a laptop or a workstation.\n\nIt behaves less like a backtest and more like a trader who shows up every morning and keeps score.\n\nflint pulls intraday history, benchmarks your machine, and trains on the recent session before it goes live.\n\nReal trades drive the charts. Each bar the model forecasts the next hour and turns it into a buy, sell or hold with a reason in plain English.\n\nAn hour later every forecast is scored and the model recalibrates. You judge it on live accuracy over hours, not on how well it fit the past.\n\nYou need Python 3.12 and [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). For the written brief, install [Ollama](https://ollama.com/download) and pull a model.\n\n```\n# clone and install\ngit clone git@github.com:thingg-co/flint.git\ncd flint\nuv sync\n\n# run it, then open http://localhost:8000\nuv run flint\n\n# optional: a local model for the daily brief\nollama pull qwen3.5          # or any chat model you like\n```\n\nIt works out of the box on free, no-key data sources. On first launch a short walkthrough lets you add API keys for better feeds, and you can skip any of them. Everything, including the LLM brief, runs locally.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flint", "canonical_source": "https://flint.thingg.co", "published_at": "2026-08-27 06:11:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 06:18:33.657657+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Flint", "Hacker News", "Ollama", "Python", "uv", "Burry", "Buffett", "Ackman"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flint", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flint.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flint.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flint.jsonld"}}