Mike: open-source legal AI • Hacker News Board

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by sandreas » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:41 AM UTC

Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by m4rkuskk » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:13 AM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #9

scosman wrote: post #3

2 commits, 8 hours old....

And yet 130 stars

No way they got that many stars in that little time. buy.fans must run a special right now.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by kernalix7 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by anon373839 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:38 AM UTC

NamlchakKhandro wrote: post #10

wps wrote: post #6

This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?

It's called "We just discovered Claude Code and so we think Anthropic is Amazing so everything they do is godlike and thus their design choices must also be god like. Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

Hm, I don't think this looks like Anthropic's design style. Anthropic is kind of doing a Chobanicore + Corporate Memphis design system that I personally find kind of creepy. But the website here just feels fresh and pleasant.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by dfordp11 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

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Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by campers » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

Interested to try it out! Some feedback on the homepage there's nothing above the fold, or directly below that says its a Legal AI platform. I would like a legal AI tool, but I'm not familiar with the space don't know what Harvey or Legora are. It was only the hackernews title "Mike: open-source legal AI" that gave the context.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by reverius42 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.)

Potentially if used with a local LLM and not a service provider, this might protect attorney-client privilege?

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by iot_devs » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:40 AM UTC

re_spond wrote: post #4

Cool initiative. Is this fully separate from "legal Mike", the Dutch company that provides a similar solution, https://legalmike.ai/product/ ? That may be confusing on the naming.

I thought it was named after the characters of Suits: Harvey and Mike

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by dalemhurley » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:41 AM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #9

scosman wrote: post #3

2 commits, 8 hours old....

And yet 130 stars

Amazing work, 130 stars is quite high for a niche product within hours!

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by rvz » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:45 AM UTC

NamlchakKhandro wrote: post #10

wps wrote: post #6

This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?

It's called "We just discovered Claude Code and so we think Anthropic is Amazing so everything they do is godlike and thus their design choices must also be god like. Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

> Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

Except that the font that it is using is EB Garamond and Apple was heavily using the Garamond font in the mid-1980s to 2000s.

Given that almost everyone is copying both, it is now garbage.