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What to Write College Essay About: Growing Up Between Shamokin’s Past and Future

With Shamokin being the town that you know like the back of your hand, finding the right topic for your college essay will ...

High School Entrance Exam Experience: When Should You Start Preparing for Short Essays? Looking Back at My Eldest Son Last Year

"Are short essays difficult?"When my second daughter, who is preparing for university entrance exams, asked me that, I ...

Karen Nikoghosyan Is Building AI Operating Layers for Multichannel Commerce

Karen Nikoghosyan works at the crossroads of AI, e-commerce operations, and talent development. As founder and CEO of eSwap Global, he offers a platform that unifies inventory, order, and shipping management for multichannel sellers, including Amazon...

Show HN: Bailout – The coding agent meant to be deleted

hey hn,i made bailout for a pretty specific problem. you boot a fresh vm and want an agent to help get it set up, except you dont have your agent set up yet. no gh, no config, no api key handy. might not even have codex / claude code / open...

Can AI help college students become better writers? A first-of-its-kind research center at UC Irvine is set to find out

Over the next five years, the WRITE AI Center will develop approaches to help colleges make informed decisions about how to ...

Microsoft executive alleges AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labour in human history’

Microsoft executive Brent Hecht has accused OpenAI, Microsoft and others of using vast amounts of internet data to train ...

Show HN: I compiled FreeRDP into a Flutter app so my phone can do RDP and SSH

Hi HN, I'm the developer. XConnect is an SSH/SFTP client for iOS and Android that also has a real RDP client built in, so one app covers my Linux and Windows machines when I'm away from my desk. No account needed: tap "Continue Of...

Show HN: CRT – a local code review tool for agentic development

I built crt to help reduce the burden of reviewing AI generated code.As fun as it is to vibecode software to production, sometimes you still need to understand and be responsible for the code that agents write. "It's the agents fault"...

Ask HN: Losing motivation to work in the IT field, need advice

Hello folks,I am a senior Software Engineer working in the IT field for close to 16 years.Before AI coding tools became prevalent, I enjoyed writing code, architecting software systems, and speaking to the stakeholders. These past 2 - 3 years, since...

Grandmother falsely accused of theft after alleged AI facial recognition match sues

The woman said she lost her residence, car and other personal property.

Ozzy Osbourne Fans Accuse His Family of a 'Cash Grab' as Sharon Osbourne Uses AI in Attempt to 'Turn' Black Sabbath Singer 'Into Elvis': Report

Ozzy Osbourne's family was accused of using the late rocker as a "cash grab" after plans to use his likeness for an AI-powered avatar were revealed. Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne Revealed Plans ...

Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show

That's one way to put it. The post Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show appeared first on Futurism.

LLMs and the 'Blandification' of Writing

LLMs could be making writing blander, less personal, and more neutral, at scale. A recent peer-reviewed study reports that the use of LLMs to aid writing increased the number of neutral responses to ...

Show HN: Remind Cards – an offline-first flashcard app with AI generation

Hi HN,I’m a software engineer, and for the past several months I’ve been building Remind Cards, a flashcard app I originally made because I wanted a better way to study Estonian vocabulary.https://remindcardsai.com/appWhat started as a...

Show HN: I built a Mac app to make technical PDF textbooks easier to study

I've always been a lifelong learner and have always tried to get through digital textbooks. Anyone who's used pdf textbooks know how much of a love/hate relationship it is.There are so many foundational textbooks published online for f...

Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x

I’m writing this after receiving a Vercel bill that was 10x higher than usual.The worst part: The increase wasn’t caused by more users, but by +1M requests from meta-externalagent/1.1.The requests targeted a Vercel preview deployment that we had...

Show HN: QuantSupport, a Rust-based quant library

Hi,I wanted to share a project I've building for a while. QuantSupport is a quant library that comtemplates curve construction, simulation and risk analytics for a different asset classes (equity, rates, fx, FI).https://github.com&#x2F...

Show HN: Chronicle – Local-first, open-source authoring software for writers

About a year and a half ago I started my writing journey by beginning to work on my first novella. During this time, I felt the need for different tools, like a timeline editor, a character sheet and so on, features that were not available on normal...

Solana Founder Says AI Slowdown Push Is About Profit, Not Safety

Solana's Yakovenko accused AI leaders of using safety arguments to protect trillion-dollar market positions, while Sacks ...

Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls

Hi HN!What if analyst ratings could be relied on to help you find the next Sandisk, before it takes off?On Analyst Index, analysts publish price targets with a maturity date. Every call gets scored against what the stock actually did, so an analyst b...