Different text genres help doctoral students adapt their writing to reach new readers
An academic abstract, a blog post and a public outreach article all place different demands on the writer. Readers' prior ...
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Parental Guidance: How to Write a College Essay That Stands Out
“It's the opportunity for students to really convey what they care about, things that they wouldn't otherwise show up in the rest of the application, and some humanity,” Common App CEO Jenny Rickard ...
How to Save the Take-Home Essay by Making the Writing Process Visible
AI might appear to have killed the take-home essay and reincarnated it as in-class writing. This change comes at a steep cost, especially for the more advanced writing taught in college. Less revision ...
Counting words-hacking human-cheat code
This "->((observation))" `-with-no--hesitation, piston pumping a long thick prepositional phrase unwanted- intimately unconsensual involuntary violation viciously penetrated the vulnerable moist olfactory warm orphuses of all progress di...
Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
Yesterday a few interesting links appeared on hacker news about always-on [1] and multi-agent setups [2].Some of those points resonate with what we're experiencing with our current approach of running agents and sub-agents locally.- We are deleg...
Parental Guidance: Here’s the Write Way to Help With the College Essay
Here are practical rules to guide your teen through personal statements and supplements while keeping their voice intact and ...
Mask AI Helps Freelancers and Agencies Turn AI Drafts Into Client-Ready Writing
Generative AI has made a first draft cheap. Making that draft good enough to send to a client has not got any easier. Raw AI output tends to repeat the same sentence shapes, lean on stock phrases and ...
AI writing tools spark fresh debate over plagiarism in college assignments
AI writing tools like ChatGPT are changing how students complete college assignments, but they are also raising concerns ...
Show HN: ArchDocs – Shared context and verification for engineers and AI agents
Hi HN,My name is Aylon and I'm building ArchDocs. I started building ArchDocs in late 2024 as an architecture diagramming tool with reusable references and objects (still exists today and is usable).As I've been using AI to code more and mo...
Show HN: Nomos – A Go harness that stops coding agents from cheating on tests
Hi HN, Mark here.If you've pointed Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode at a codebase you care about and walked away thinking AI coding tools are a net negative, I pretty much agree with you.Left directly on a working branch, models optimize for shu...
Show HN: AWKLog – a minimalist Datalog interpreter in Awk
For many of the projects I work on I found myself wanting to use a relational language like Datalog to generate C source from specifications, do verification during build or maintain a task database.However pulling a full blown Souffle or SWI-PL as a...
Tell HN: Scribd Breached
Not seeing anything posted about this anywhere, received on Monday, 26th of Oct 2026:Subject: Notice of Security IncidentThis notice is being sent on behalf of Scribd, Inc., the parent company of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable, by Epiq, Scrib...
Show HN: A Daily Poem Writing Puzzle
Hello my beloved tech forum!Earlier this year I moved to a new apartment, and scattered a box of poetry magnets all over my fridge. Whenever people came to visit, I noticed how they always loved making poems of their own, not to mention enjoying the...
Suno Targets Apple’s AI Deals
Suno challenged Apple's effort to block testimony, arguing that private music deals could support its AI copyright defense.
Ask HN: Advise on monetization model for my freemium app wanted
I'm an indie app dev and looking for some conceptual help with one of my freemium apps. I'm thinking about completely restructuring the business model i.e. the placement of the paywall and what amount of content stays free and what'll...
Ask HN: Techniques for productive AI use in the workspace
Hey HN,Like so many other SWEs right now, I am trying to find ways to enhance my development experience without taking away from the quality of my work or the things I find enjoyable about software engineering, especially as one who very much enjoys...
Show HN: Control – Data Observability for Postgres, Pipelines and CDC
Hello Everyone! I built control.turbolytics.io for data observability.The goal is to provide a cost-effective way to monitor postgres and data pipelines at scale. Onboarding a new db takes minutes. Controls entire purpose is to answer the question: &...
Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
Hi HN, we're Ahnaf and Seungmin from Simantic (https://simantic.com). We are building the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware without hardware.Before Simantic, we were ex-firmware engineers at...
NYPD walks back contract negotiations with AI-driven cellphone surveillance company amid backlash
The department confirmed it is restarting the procurement process and accepting competing bids for similar technologies.
Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare
I spent hundred of hours (distributed over many days) filling my resume data to freshly developed forms made specifically to the hiring process of one or two companies, even though I feel like I have a top 10% resume and years of in hands-down softwa...