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Show HN: Launch-AI directory for creators, indie developers, and founders

In a world being rapidly rewritten by AI, new tools appear every day, yet real clarity becomes harder to find. The challenge isn’t how many AI tools exist, but *which ones are worth using right now*—the ones that reduce friction, cut experimentation time, and meaningfully amplify your capabilities.*LaunchSoar* was built exactly for that purpose.It’s a *lightweight but carefully curated AI directory*—not a bloated encyclopedia, not an ad-stuffed traffic farm. Think of it as a precise ignition seq

Ask HN: How to find a Sales cofounder for a B2B SaaS fintech compliance product?

Context: I’m a technical founder building Settl X, a layer that helps compliance teams make fast, repeatable, audit-ready decisions across a fragmented toolchain (KYB/KYC, sanctions/PEP, transaction monitoring, case tools, investigations). Our initial wedge is an "audit-ready KYB decision packet" that bundles evidence, rationale, and a defensible decision trail.Why we’re doing this: In cross-border / multi-jurisdiction flows (including stablecoin rails), compliance becom

Human and AI. How to Modernize Your Consciousness in 10 Minutes

For someone let this be simply a joke, and for someone this will become a serious life turning point. Simply answer several questions to yourself. Reading these questions, you must understand that you are not only trying to position yourself, but at the same time you also learn about the opinion of other people through the text.I repeat, here the main idea is not a questionnaire, this is intended as a means of personal psychological support in positioning oneself. For many questions the answer s

Show HN: A Product Commercialization Framework for Solo Developers

Most solo developers spend 90% of their time writing code and 10% on everything else. After a few years of building indie products — some failures, a couple that found traction — I've tried to document the framework I wish I'd had earlier.The framework has four phases: clarify, build, grow, monetize. None of it is novel. The value is in applying it in order, because most failures happen when you skip the first phase and go straight to the second.Clarify first. Before writing code: who

What happens when you use ChatGPT to write an essay? See what new study found.

Artificial intelligence chatbots may be able to write a quick essay, but a new study from MIT found that their use comes at a cognitive cost. A study published by the Massachusetts Institute of ...

The five best paper-writing services in 2025, ranked and compared

If achieving straight A’s is your goal this semester, consider getting help from a paper-writing service. Right now, many sites cater to students who want top grades, and some have been around for a ...

Sony Group Develops AI Tool to Detect AI Plagiarism

The tech, developed by Sony AI, can theoretically be used to create a system that will compensate the songwriters whose work ...

Quetext Launches AI Summarizer Designed to Generate Structured Summaries and Meeting Notes

Quetext AI Summarizer creates short, medium, or long summaries in bullets, reports, paragraphs, or meeting notes, now ...

5 Ways to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Students’ Writing

Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

5 sure-fire writing tips from past winners of the CBC Nonfiction Prize

The 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize is currently accepting submissions! The deadline is March 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET. If you’re working on your piece and looking for some advice, we’ve got you covered!

Show HN: Legal RAG Bench

Hey HN, This is Legal RAG Bench, the first benchmark for legal RAG systems to simultaneously evaluate hallucinations, retrieval failures, and reasoning errors.The key takeaways of our benchmark are: 1. Embedding models, not generative models, are the primary driver of RAG accuracy. Switching from a general-purpose embedder like OpenAI's Text Embedding 3 Large to a legal domain embedder like Kanon 2 Embedder can raise accuracy by ~19 points. 2. Hallucinations are often triggered by retrie

Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen ...

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1].For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13). The next few years were a whirlwind.I was a young, naive founder with just enough experience to know I wanted Watsi to be more efficient, transparent, and innovative than most nonprofits. We spent 24/7 talking to users and coding. We did t

Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers

Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies like the blockchain. This new era of trust could bring with it a more transparent,...

Inside the black market for college homework

Do you have yet another term paper due? You could spend hours in the library, researching related academic articles, pouring over the text, and looking for an insightful thesis to pursue. You could ...

UM student accused of using AI sues school for disability discrimination

The student said in the suit the AI use accusations were based heavily on "subjective judgments" about her writing style and AI comparison outputs.

Landmark report finds racism 'deeply embedded' in Australian universities

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare unveiled the report with Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan ...

University of Michigan student accused of using AI suing school; lawsuit alleges disability discrimination

University of Michigan regents and faculty engaged in disability discrimination against a student accused by an instructor of ...

Student accused of using AI sues college for disability discrimination

University of Michigan student accused of using AI for college papers sues for disability discrimination - The lawsuit claims professors mistook symptoms of her disability for signs of AI generation — ...

Student claims U-M wrongly accused her of using AI

The case highlights a growing problem for universities as they try to police the use of artificial intelligence.