Glass Box

Show HN: Glass Box: writing editor that exports a verifiable PDF of your process

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We built a local-first writing editor that records the composition process (keystrokes, paste events, AI interactions) and exports a PDF with annotation highlights + an AI usage appendix.The motivation: AI detectors are genuinely broken. Stanford research showed >60% false positive rates for non-native English writers on TOEFL essays. The "solution" from institutions has been to buy more detectors or make the policies so broad that either the student can do nothing if they are accused or the teacher can do nothing if the student does not make an admission.Instead of trying to detect AI use after the fact, we give students a way to record their process as they write. The exported PDF shows a

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