“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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Here are practical rules to guide your teen through personal statements and supplements while keeping their voice intact and ...
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 like ChatGPT are changing how students complete college assignments, but they are also raising concerns ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 challenged Apple's effort to block testimony, arguing that private music deals could support its AI copyright defense.
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...
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...
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: &...
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...
The department confirmed it is restarting the procurement process and accepting competing bids for similar technologies.
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...
Modern digital tools are changing how people approach these everyday tasks, making drafting, editing, and organizing ...