The Unemployed Professor

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1].For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13). The next few years were a whirlwind.I was a young, naive founder with just enough experience to know I wanted Watsi to be more efficient, transparent, and innovative than most nonprofits. We spent 24/7 talking to users and coding. We did t

Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers

Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies like the blockchain. This new era of trust could bring with it a more transparent,...

Inside the black market for college homework

Do you have yet another term paper due? You could spend hours in the library, researching related academic articles, pouring over the text, and looking for an insightful thesis to pursue. You could ...

University of Michigan student accused of using AI suing school; lawsuit alleges disability discrimination

University of Michigan regents and faculty engaged in disability discrimination against a student accused by an instructor of ...

Student accused of using AI sues college for disability discrimination

University of Michigan student accused of using AI for college papers sues for disability discrimination - The lawsuit claims professors mistook symptoms of her disability for signs of AI generation — ...

Landmark report finds racism 'deeply embedded' in Australian universities

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare unveiled the report with Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan ...

Student claims U-M wrongly accused her of using AI

The case highlights a growing problem for universities as they try to police the use of artificial intelligence.

Judge Orders Adelphi To Erase AI Cheating Violation

An Adelphi University freshman is celebrating after a Nassau County judge ruled he did not cheat on a paper with artificial intelligence and ordered the university to wipe the violation from his ...

UM student accused of using AI sues school for disability discrimination

The student said in the suit the AI use accusations were based heavily on "subjective judgments" about her writing style and AI comparison outputs.

Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More

Hello,I posted a few weeks ago about my custom scraping language. It definitely got some traction, which was very exciting to see.Github Repo: https://github.com/tadpolehq/tadpole Docs: https://tadpolehq.com/The past 2 weeks, I've been focusing my efforts in introducing specific stealth actions, more complicated control flow actions and a lot of various evaluators for cleaning data.Here is an example for scraping from `books.toscrape.com` main { new_p

Show HN: Personal AI Talent Agency for Content Creators

hey HN, so much good has come out of this community for me. Sharing something exciting we've been working really hard on for the past month.tldr: 80% of Content creators in the 10k-1M range don't have professional agency representation and spend ~60% of their time on admin around brand deals (brand discovery, outreach, follow-ups, pricing), which is their main source of revenue, by the way. I have led content and growth at a YCw20 and have done ML at LinkedIn and found a burning inters

Show HN: ViewLint – Lint UI, Not Code

I noticed that AI tends to be really good at writing functional code, but not so good at making UI. It turns out that AI has a closed feedback loop in coding with linters and unit testing, but nothing strong for UI. Screenshots and DOM snapshots just don't provide actionable enough feedback for LLMs. To solve this, I made ViewLint: an easily extensible and customizable linter that finds issues with your UI with rules that actually validate and interact with your rendered UI. From testing it

Show HN: Business Lead Finder – Scrape Google Maps and Yelp for Leads

I built a tool that extracts structured business data from Google Maps and Yelp. You give it a query (e.g., "coffee shops in Brooklyn") and it returns name, address, phone, website, rating, and review count as JSON or CSV.It runs as an Apify Actor, so no infrastructure to manage.Technical details: - Built with Python + Playwright for rendering JS-heavy pages - Handles Google Maps' infinite scroll and dynamic loading - Deduplicates across Google Maps and Yelp results - Outputs stru

Stuck in Your Writing?

Cultivate readers for your work and build a network of them to draw upon throughout your writing process, advises Jennifer Ahern-Dodson. I recently led a faculty writing retreat. During a discussion about sustaining writing momentum, we talked about the power of writers asking readers for feedback if they are stuck. Yet most writers were not comfortable sharing their work before it was “submission ready.” In our discussion they shared some version of the following:

Incarcerated Minnesotans pen new book showcasing vibrant writing community

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: You all know that Minnesota is home to a robust writing community, especially an incarcerated writing community. Minnesota Prison Writing ...

Beyond the Black Box: How StrikePlagiarism.com Makes AI Detection Transparent and Trustworthy

How StrikePlagiarism.com’s Explainable AI delivers transparent, interpretable AI detection — helping educators ...

Adelphi accused a student of using AI to plagiarize. He fought back — and won.

"It feels incredible to finally have my name cleared," said Orion Newby, now in his second year at Adelphi University.

Understanding Content Authenticity: Why a Plagiarism Checker, Grammar Checker, and Free AI Content Detector Matter

Discover why content authenticity matters in 2026 and how tools like a plagiarism checker, grammar checker, and free AI content detector help ensure originality, accuracy, and credibility in your writing.

Adelphi Student Wins AI Plagiarism Lawsuit

An Adelphi University student who was accused of using artificial intelligence on an assignment has won a lawsuit against the institution, Newsday reported, with a federal judge ruling that the finding that he had plagiarized was without merit.

PlagiarismCheck.org Statistics: Are Plagiarism and AI Misuse in Academia Increasing in 2025?

90% of surveyed students used AI for writing the final semester paper. Is the tendency growing? ADDLESTONE, GB / ACCESS Newswire / January 27, 2026 / Only one out of ten students who participated in ...