MapLibre Compose is a Kotlin library for putting interactive vector maps in Compose Multiplatform apps on Android, iOS, desktop, and web. It's part of the MapLibre ecosystem, and isn't tied to any map provider; you point it at any MapLibre...
I'm taking a bit of a risk with this one, this is a novella I authored with the help of AI. If that offends you, please move on!Everyone on HN knows just how much AI is disrupting our industry. Although, much of the industry narrative focusses o...
I've been writing online about software and entrepreneurship for the last decade. You may remember me as the guy who quit his job at Google to bootstrap my own business (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241) or the guy wh...
Hi HN, I built Teacher Planner to help teachers organize lessons and prepare classroom materials in one place.The digital planbook brings together lesson plans, units, schedules, and curriculum standards, with day, week, and month views, read-only sh...
One of my favorite articles on Wikipedia is called "Timeline of the far future".[0]The only problem with this article is the presentation: it's a gigantic wall-of-text table that does very little justice to the profound, awe-inspiring...
In 2019, I was teaching science at an international school in Chiang Mai. One day before class, one of my Grade 7 students asked me about flat earth. He had heard the idea from Kyrie Irving and then spent the night on flat earth sites.We walked throu...
This is Katriel, the architect of the tool APIaxess.I have been API pentesting for a good time now, and starting with API pentesting was a bit of a rough patch. Specially the setting up and having to know the intricacies of proxies, networking and ot...
Silta is a self-hosted assistant serving multiple users from a single Matrix account, used by me, family, and close friends for the last three weeks. It runs on Claude Code with each person using their own Claude subscription.Silta answers everyday q...
Hey HN,I procrastinate looking for a job by creating side projects. This one was born when I finally decided it was time for look for a job. Naturally, I wanted to prepare for an eventual interview and asked Claude to drill me. It did an OK job but t...
French literary prize nominee Thélyson Orélien faces backlash over disputed claims involving artificial intelligence and ...
All software makes decisions. Code handles the deterministic ones. Decision models like Jev handle the judgement calls.A decision model takes context and questions with a fixed set of choices, and returns answers with a calibrated probability. No pro...
Hey HN! We're Dudu and Topaz from Vespper (https://vespper.com). Vespper is an MCP that lets AI agents efficiently edit Word documents, powered by our fine-tuned model. It's currently 3× faster, 2× cheaper and more accurate than t...
I've always found it odd there was no deterministic QA tools with zero baseline needed, especially after so long. It's always been either (1) playwright or cypress that require written tests, dependant on the tests YOU write, or (2), asking...
Dartmouth College's provost is facing calls for his removal after an AI-detection tool flagged an opinion essay he wrote ...
Prize removal decision: The Académie Goncourt dropped Orélien’s novel from its longlist, citing AI and plagiarism allegations to preserve the prize’s integrity. Author’s response: Orélien denies AI ...
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Little experiment I've been cooking up.I often find myself wanting to do one of the following:- Get my agent and a someone else's agent to agree on something, after we've been discussing the same topic in different threads- Give someon...
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MONTREAL — The Académie Goncourt has removed Quebec author Thélyson Orélien’s novel from a list of finalists for the prestigious French literary prize.
Thélyson Orélien, whose debut novel has emerged as one of the biggest literary successes in France this year, is facing a growing controversy after ...