Show HN: Offline NHTSA VIN decoder, verified against NHTSA's own SQL

By tuannx · 2026-10-03 · 2 points · 0 comments

https://github.com/AIKitLLC/nhtsa-edge-api

I ported NHTSA's spVinDecode to TypeScript and run it on Cloudflare Workers over the official monthly vPIC dump, so decoding needs no call to NHTSA (p50 about 1.4 ms). How it's checked: It is compared with NHTSA's own SQL functions on the original dump in PostgreSQL. There were…

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