The Unemployed Professor

Ask HN: Favorite prompts for improving LLM output?

I use Claude Code a lot and GPT 5.5 as well, and find that they are simultaneously extremely useful and also fall into common poor-performance basins. For example, writing performance -- perhaps my biggest issue with them is writing style -- such as well documented stylistic tics (em-dash, it's not x it's y), less commented stylistic tics ("the honest framing", "the earned XYZ"), cryptic and coined jargon, overabbreviation and sentences replaces by arrow constructio

Clico as a powerful Grammarly alternative for smarter writing

Writing has become a core part of almost every digital task today. Whether people are sending emails, creating reports, ...

How Verbal Rehearsal Can Bridge the Gap Between Speaking and Writing

These strategies for having students talk out their writing help them develop the skills to convey their thoughts on paper.

Everyday task may help detect early dementia signs before diagnosis, study finds

Scientists have discovered that a simple writing test could detect cognitive impairment in older adults before more serious symptoms develop.

Luke Bryan Slams 'Trolls' Who Accused Him of Using AI to Write New Song 'Fish Hunt Golf Drink'

"Fish Hunt Golf Drink" will be featured on Bryan's forthcoming album 'Signs' ...

Layton trucker accused of using AI to generate nude images of children

A Layton trucker is facing 18 charges after police say they found more than 180,000 files of child sexual abuse materials saved to a Google account.

Meghan Markle accused of using AI for As Ever branding after humiliating likeness spotted

Meghan Markle has been accused of using AI.

Meghan Markle's As Ever brand accused of sharing AI statement

Meghan Markle has been accused of using AI for a statement on her As Ever brand's official website, after critics spotted a ...

'I saw an ad that looked like me': Huffer accused of using AI to recreate models

Elijah Timmins-Scanlon alleges Huffer is generating models with AI, using the likeness of models from previous Huffer campaigns, without disclosure.

Nicholas Amendolare: What is the tragedy of the commons?

Is it possible that overfishing, super germs, and global warming are all caused by the same thing? In 1968, a man named Garrett Hardin sat down to write an essay about overpopulation. Within it, he discovered a pattern of human behavior that explains some of history’s biggest problems. Nicholas Amendolare describes the tragedy of the commons. [D...

AI-giarism: When AI Use Becomes Academic Misconduct

AI-giarism, coined by Chan (2023), names the moment AI use crosses into academic misconduct. What the research found, and what it means for teachers.

'I cannot afford to pay $45K': Student faces suspension after AI tool flags thesis, scholarship revoked

A university student claims they are facing suspension and the loss of a $45,000 scholarship after an AI detection tool ...

Strict measures against AI and plagiarism in PhD theses; new UGC rules come into effect

PhD Admission: PhD scholars will now need to exercise greater caution while conducting research and preparing their theses.

University body introduces tougher curbs on AI misuse and plagiarism in PhD research

UGC rules on AI misuse and plagiarism: The new rules come amid growing concerns that the rapid adoption of AI-powered writing ...

Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write

It started after reading Stephen King's "On Writing" where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I've been a struggling startup founder for 15 years—enough material to inspire a novel.A 1,000-word writing exercise turned into a complete 125k-word manuscript over the course of a year.In year 1, I learned the sheer joy of u

How to Write a College Essay

College application essays are where you can demonstrate your writing skills and let your unique voice shine. “They’re such ...

Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?

I am not that young, but I'm not that old. I used to be a child, and thought that the adults already figured things out and I can be at peace.One of my realization of me getting older is the realization that there are no adults in the room anymore, or that I am now, an adult, who, also the same like other adults, we actually don't know shit about anything, none of us do.I think LLM is a useful technology. But since the dawn of LLMs, I've been trying to imagine what the world will

Show HN: TeardownHQ, teardowns/playbooks of how indie startups grew

Launching TeardownHQ: a directory of indie startups with revenue pulled from real signals (and labeled where it is an estimate), plus deep teardowns/playbooks of exactly how each one grew. The channels, the pricing, the GTM, all sourced, instead of the usual self-reported screenshots. Why I am building it: Starter Story proved people want "how they actually did it," but it skews ecommerce and general business, and because it is human-interviewed it is slow and broad. I am going na

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

Hey HN, we're Faisal and Ahmad from Intuned (https://intunedhq.com). We’re building a platform for building, deploying, and maintaining browser automations.Customers primarily use the Intuned AI agent to automate websites that don't expose APIs. Common use-cases include scraping data, pulling reports, and submitting forms. As the website changes, our agent also helps automatically heal the automation.On Intuned, browser automations are created by an AI agent and run as code.

Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest

David O’Neill on “three six five,” a new collection of writing exercises by the writer Lucy Ives, and the venerable tradition of goofy and esoteric creativity guides including Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird” and Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way.”