I built an AI that audits businesses.I ran it on my own startup. It caught me over-crediting my own business.Score: 34/100.It cut my own score. Most founders would hide that.I shipped it anyway.That’s the point.7 agents. One verdict on your reve...
Hi HN, I’m the creator of TimerVana.It's not just "another timer app". The engineering analogy is a lightweight task scheduler for things people do in the real world. A normal timer models one countdown. TimerVana models a small depen...
Plagiarism is not new in the writing world. At any level, writing is a challenging intellectual pursuit, whether it is a ...
Teachers' Day 2026 is around the corner. If you are struggling to make your essay more personal and interesting, these five ...
For the past few years i've been on Duolingo & was able to learn Hindi & Spanish (even helped me get state seal of biliteracy)One of the biggest problems that I see in my generation (Gen Z) is loneliness. I love Duolingo's community...
I make music that's entirely found sound/sample based. It occurred to me that on every social media site (particularly Instagram) I would have thousands of saved posts because of some sound or visual content that I thought I might like to s...
Hello! You may have seen me post here before about my other app, Gramola, a music dock that slides out from the edge of your Mac's screen.Today, I wanted to showcase a sister project to it that I started building when I grew frustrated with othe...
Hi HN! This is my latest side hustle, OctoLoops: an app to help indie devs and SMEs find paying customers for their business.I first started building OctoLoops around 2 months ago because so many of my own projects, big and small, had failed or peter...
Hello HN!Code just became cheaper with AI but review and verification is as hard as it was. Tests are great, but current AI slop needs much more exhaustive testing.I built a test coverage tool for coding agents so they could work in a loop and keep w...
A new investigation at Cookeville High School is putting a spotlight on how teenagers are using artificial intelligence.
Teachers Day is celebrated in India every year on September 5 to appreciate and thank teachers for their guidance, hard work ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Detection software offers quick answers, but the risk of false positives and the stigma of being accused are leading to ...
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...
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...