Verify the Record — The Stare

Verify the record

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The Wire Archive is a permanent record: once a headline is on it, it stays. But "permanent" is only worth as much as your ability to check it — so here is the check.

Your browser is re-hashing every archived day against the live wire…

Each day on the archive is fingerprinted with a SHA-256 hash, and each day's fingerprint includes the one before it — a chain. Those fingerprints are copied into an append-only log kept in our source-code history (git), a place separate from the server that holds the archive. That separation is the whole point: to fake the record, you'd have to alter the archive and rewrite git history and beat the copy below that your own device just computed.

Nothing on this page is taken on our word. The list below was hashed by your browser, just now, from the same public data anyone can pull.

75 days anchored in git 2026-07-15 → 2026-09-29
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  14. 2026-09-16 144 headlines checking…
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  15. 2026-09-15 111 headlines checking…
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  17. 2026-09-13 9 headlines checking…
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  21. 2026-09-09 134 headlines checking…
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  22. 2026-09-08 117 headlines checking…
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  23. 2026-09-07 55 headlines checking…
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  24. 2026-09-06 39 headlines checking…
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  25. 2026-09-05 39 headlines checking…
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  26. 2026-09-04 120 headlines checking…
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  27. 2026-09-03 137 headlines checking…
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  28. 2026-09-02 115 headlines checking…
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  29. 2026-09-01 138 headlines checking…
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  30. 2026-08-31 130 headlines checking…
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  33. 2026-08-28 92 headlines checking…
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  34. 2026-08-27 126 headlines checking…
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  43. 2026-08-17 91 headlines checking…
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  45. 2026-08-14 99 headlines checking…
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  47. 2026-08-12 143 headlines checking…
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  49. 2026-08-10 142 headlines checking…
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  51. 2026-08-08 44 headlines checking…
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  52. 2026-08-07 156 headlines checking…
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  53. 2026-08-06 81 headlines checking…
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  54. 2026-08-05 126 headlines checking…
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  59. 2026-07-31 115 headlines checking…
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  63. 2026-07-27 97 headlines checking…
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  71. 2026-07-19 65 headlines checking…
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  73. 2026-07-17 150 headlines checking…
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Verify it yourself, from scratch

You don't need this page. Pick any day above and run:

curl -s https://stare-news.kcstare.workers.dev/archive/2026-07-16 | shasum -a 256

The result matches the fingerprint shown for that day above — which was read straight from our append-only hash log committed to git (ledger-mirror/hashes.jsonl) when this page was built. To check the chain, hash the previous day the same way; it equals this day's stored prevHash. If both match, the day is exactly what it was when it was recorded — and the commit date proves when that was.

What this does and doesn't prove

  • Does: prove that any day, once anchored, has not been altered since — because changing it would break the hash your browser just recomputed and the copy frozen in git history.
  • Doesn't: vouch for a day that was altered before it was ever anchored. We anchor daily to keep that window to hours, and we say so plainly rather than pretend the gap isn't there.

More on how the wire works: About · Ethics & Independence · read the archive.