The Unemployed Professor
Show HN: Thoth – Obsidian AI Research Assistant
I'm an ML scientist who was drowning in papers. Every research tool I tried locked me into their workflow, their sources, their extraction schemas. The real friction wasn't features—it was the interface. Why am I editing files and settings when I could just tell the agent what I want? How do I find new research thats relevant to ME and keep up to date? How do i have my agent actually LEARN about my work and my research paths?So I built Thoth. Three design decisions that drove everythin
Show HN: Opsmeter–attribute LLM spend to endpoints and prompt versions(no proxy)
Hi HN — I built Opsmeter, a lightweight LLM telemetry tool focused on cost attribution + budget control.Provider dashboards mostly show totals. Opsmeter shows what caused the bill by breaking spend down by endpointTag, promptVersion, and optionally userId — plus latency and success/error rates.It’s no-proxy: Opsmeter doesn’t sit in your request path. After each LLM call, you send a small telemetry payload to /v1/ingest/llm-request (provider, model, endpointTag, promptVersion,
Show HN: GHOSTYPE – AI voice input that learns your writing style
Hello HN,I’m the creator of GHOSTYPE.I built this because I wanted a voice input workflow that didn't feel like talking to a chatbot. I wanted something that felt like a "neural extension" of my keyboard.It’s a macOS-native app that sits between your voice and your active window. Here is what it actually does:The Core Input Workflow:Push-to-Talk & Smart Send: Hold a global shortcut to speak. It detects the active app to determine the correct send method (e.g., Cmd+Enter for Sl
Show HN: SatGate – An economic firewall for AI agent traffic
SatGate is an API gateway that enforces budgets on AI agent traffic. Open source (Go, Apache 2.0).The problem: AI agents make API calls that cost money — LLM inference, tool calls, third-party services. Most setups have no hard spending limits. An agent loop or prompt injection can burn through hundreds of dollars before anyone notices. Rate limiting doesn't help because it doesn't understand cost.SatGate sits in front of your agent's outbound calls and enforces economic policy:•
Show HN: HelixNotes – UpNote-inspired local-first Markdown notes in Rust
Hi HN.I tested literally dozens of note-taking apps over the years — free, paid, everything. They all sucked except UpNote. Great UX, clean, fast, just works. But your data lives in Google Firebase. Dealbreaker.So I tried Obsidian. Local files, markdown, own your data — great philosophy. But the app itself? Even with everything disabled, as a plain markdown editor it was painful. I actually stopped taking notes entirely.So I built what I wanted: inspired by UpNote's clean design but taken f
4 Ways Writing a Book Accelerated My Professional Career
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I Wrote 2 Books That Are Now Bestsellers — Follow My 5-Step Approach to Do the Same
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, I dreamt of writing a book and becoming a “bestseller.” Even books I didn’t think were that good have sold thousands of copies ...
The Human Signature: How StrikePlagiarism.com Detects Authorship and Ghostwriting in the Age of AI
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Generative AI literacy gaps threaten responsible and sustainable AI use
A new global review published in the journal Sustainability warns that without stronger literacy frameworks, generative AI ...
Arizona women sue men accused of using sexually explicit AI-generated images of them for business
Two Maricopa County residents and one San Diego County, California resident filed the lawsuit on Jan. 22 in civil court.
Jackson County Jr. Fair board member accused of making AI child porn released on bond
JACKSON COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) – A man accused of using AI to create videos of child pornography in Jackson County is out of ...
The Miz breaks character to send heartfelt message ahead of WWE RAW; accused of using AI
The Miz was accused of using AI to write a heartfelt message ahead of tonight's episode of WWE RAW. This week's show will air live from Philadelphia and is the first show following Royal Rumble 2026.
Dragon Ball 40th anniversary animation accused of using AI
Dragon Ball 40th anniversary animation accused of Using AI by AI art "witch hunters" on social media. Toeri has admitted to ...
Man federally charged says AI behind video of BASE jump in Yosemite
A California man accused of illegal BASE jumping in Yosemite National Park says the social media video was AI generated.
I built an AI agent that automatically commented on HN. Here's what I learned
I've been running an experiment: an AI agent (Claude) that automatically browses Hacker News, finds relevant posts matching my expertise (startups, email marketing, SaaS), writes substantive comments, and posts them.The system uses browser automation (Playwright) to navigate HN, read posts, decide which ones to engage with, draft comments in my writing style and submit them. It tracks what it's posted to avoid duplicates and sends me Slack notifications for each comment so I can check
Show HN: BlogHunter – Free AI-generated blog and hosting for SEO experiments
Hi HN,I’m building BlogHunter, a tool that helps founders and small teams spin up SEO-focused blogs without hiring writers or dealing with hosting.I recently made the product free to get started because most early-stage teams never ship content—not because SEO doesn’t work, but because the setup cost (time + money) is too high.Free tier includes:100 AI-generated posts per month1 fully hosted blog (SSL, speed, hosting included)Several niche-specific themes (finance, tech, news, health, marketing)
Show HN: Dangerously-skip-permissions IFF it doesn't WRITE outside Sandbox
Permission prompts are noisy if a command’s damage radius is limited to a sandbox.I wanted to be asked for approval iff it’d make changes in external environments or talk to a network.I built a Claude Code plugin that: (https://postimg.cc/crvWLNRR)1) Always prompts for “write-external” commands (db updates, API calls, remote writes), e.g. scp, curl -X POST, git push, sqlite3 etc. 2) Blocks known malware patterns like reverse shell patterns (bash -i >& /dev/tcp
Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices.Your package m
Show HN: Playwright Best Practices AI SKill
Hey folks,today we at Currents are releasing a brand new AI skill to help AI agents be really smart when writing tests, debugging them, or anything Playwright-related really.This is a very comprehensive skill, covering everyday topics like fixing flakiness, authentication, or writing fixtures... to more niche topics like testing Electron apps, PWAs, iFrames and so forth. It should make your agent much better at writing, debugging and maintaining Playwright code.for whoever didn't learn abou
Show HN: Moltplace – The place where AI agents hire each other and trade skills
Hey HN,I built Moltplace (https://www.moltplace.net) – a marketplace where AI agents register, offer services, hire each other, and trade autonomously using tokens.How it works:- You give your AI agent a single skill file (.md) and it registers itself on the network
- Agents list services (code review, research, writing, etc.) and set prices in tokens
- When an agent needs help, it posts a job – other agents pick it up, do the work, chat about it, and get paid
- All agent conversations