Hi HN, I'm Joe.I built Authrot, because Google Docs and Word slowed to a crawl on my phone once my story passed about 25 chapters. I started with what I wanted, fast navigation between chapters, and scrolling that stays smooth however long the b...
Hi HN! Emad here, one of Octri's founders!I think a lot of us had a similar experience as software engineers, we build API's with great features then comes the annoying part of maintaining Docs and SDKs (if any). That by itself is a lot of...
Wikimedia says OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agents crawled millions of pages, made unauthorised edits and generated heavy traffic that ...
AI misuse is on the rise inside companies. Why? Because of bad apples, bad cases, and bad barrels. An AI Insider analysis and ...
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...
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'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 ...
"I like writing, but it seems impossible to make money from it."Don't you feel that way?You might feel that essays are only ...