The Shelf · Signal Library
No. 188

Kairos: open-source risk and fraud decisioning for teams without labeled data

ModerateEvidence grade
Nov 4, 2026Shelved
Field — small business, nonprofits, and the groundSection
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a Show HN launch of an open-source alternative to Sift and Sardine: alongside XGBoost and logistic regression it uses "System One" decision models — plain-language questions such as "Is this a throwaway email" — so a small business or nonprofit can run real-time fraud decisioning without the large labeled datasets traditional fraud ML depends on, against fraudsters who keep changing tactics.

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