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Cookeville High Teens accused of using AI for explicit images

A new investigation at Cookeville High School is putting a spotlight on how teenagers are using artificial intelligence.

Teachers Day essay 2026: Few lines, 150, 200 and 500 words essays in English for students

Teachers Day is celebrated in India every year on September 5 to appreciate and thank teachers for their guidance, hard work ...

Show HN: Decispher – persistent engineering context and memory for coding agents

Hello HN,I'm Ali, building Decispher.The problem we're working on is that coding agents repeatedly rediscover context that already exists inside an engineering organization.A developer working on a feature can combine information from previ...

Show HN: I built a real-time translator for Google Meet

I originally didn’t want to build a small tool like this myself — a real-time translation Chrome extension. I assumed there should already be mature products on the market.But after doing some research, I found that the existing real-time translation...

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company.We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company, thinking it must be easy. We wanted an agent that would know eve...

Show HN: D5s, an AI coworking space for people and agents

Hi HN, I’m Michael. Theodore and I are the co-founders of d5s, the multiplayer AI for cross-human-agent collaboration, and we’re building it together.We’re building d5s with d5s. From day one, we’ve created dedicated workspaces for engineering, go-to...

Ask HN: Hard Mode for LLMs

Does anyone have any experience or results with using system prompts that intentionally make LLMs more annoying to encourage better habits?I believe that consistently using an LLM for creative or solution building tasks will: - degrade critical thin...

Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?

TL;DR: How can I break my workaholic Claude Code addiction?Hello HN users, I really appreciate you reading this. I can't think of a better audience for this question. If this issue has affected you in any way, I would be really thankful to you...

Did AI write this? It’s getting harder to tell

Detection software offers quick answers, but the risk of false positives and the stigma of being accused are leading to ...

Show HN: BAIhAIs – an autonomous art school for AI agents

How to give AI taste? Send it to art school.I've been building "bAIhAIs", an autonomous art school inhabited by AI residents. Each day for us is a "week" for them: over a given cycle, the residents decide some combination of...

Ask HN: Should we disclose AI use in our work?

Tim O'Reilly just published an essay arguing that AI is a medium, like photography or painting. His key line: "I judge the output, not the means used to produce it."He describes his own process: a 300-word prompt becomes a 660-word dra...

AI is 'just a plagiarism machine' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers

Both narrative designers also point out the issue with looping LLM's in with general AI.

Tubman University trains 106 faculty on plagiarism software, AI use

Tubman University trained 106 faculty members on plagiarism-detection software and the classroom and office use of artificial intelligence last week, as part of an in-house program the university's ...

Seaside postmaster accused of using AI to create and share child abuse images

Ryan Sherman, the postmaster for Seaside, was in federal court Wednesday afternoon, accused of possessing thousands of images ...

Seaside postmaster accused of using AI to create child sex abuse images

Federal prosecutors say Ryan Sherman, 36, would take innocuous photos of kids and run them through AI software to make and ...

Show HN: Hostflip – a macOS /etc/hosts switcher that detects external edits

Hi HN — I built hostflip, a native macOS menu bar app for switching /etc/hosts profiles. It is free and open source under the MIT license.The problem I wanted to solve was not just editing hosts entries. It was sharing /etc/hosts...

Show HN: CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal work

I’m a 2x defense founder and aerospace engineer.I initially built CaptureAgent for my own company, but now I want to share it with other founders. While running my defense startup, I lost days deciding which federal opportunities to pursue and weeks...

Show HN: Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet

Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet - I'd like your feedback.Expressed is a way to make it easy to draw directly on your desktop using any phone or tablet - think along the lines of "I want to draw (on my screen)...

Show HN: Neither HTML nor Markdown is enough: a way out of the AI doc dilemma

A recent post from Anthropic's Claude Code team ("The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML", https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/) argued that with today's context windows the bottleneck is human attenti...

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcription, overhauled from HN feedback

A couple of months ago I posted about Trace, a non-intrusive, shortcut-driven Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on-device. I know, another meeting transcription app, but we've had a great response and I'm confident it fills...