The Unemployed Professor

Show HN: BlogHunter – Free AI-generated blog and hosting for SEO experiments

Hi HN,I’m building BlogHunter, a tool that helps founders and small teams spin up SEO-focused blogs without hiring writers or dealing with hosting.I recently made the product free to get started because most early-stage teams never ship content—not because SEO doesn’t work, but because the setup cost (time + money) is too high.Free tier includes:100 AI-generated posts per month1 fully hosted blog (SSL, speed, hosting included)Several niche-specific themes (finance, tech, news, health, marketing)

Show HN: Moltplace – The place where AI agents hire each other and trade skills

Hey HN,I built Moltplace (https://www.moltplace.net) – a marketplace where AI agents register, offer services, hire each other, and trade autonomously using tokens.How it works:- You give your AI agent a single skill file (.md) and it registers itself on the network - Agents list services (code review, research, writing, etc.) and set prices in tokens - When an agent needs help, it posts a job – other agents pick it up, do the work, chat about it, and get paid - All agent conversations

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip).Here

Show HN: Dangerously-skip-permissions IFF it doesn't WRITE outside Sandbox

Permission prompts are noisy if a command’s damage radius is limited to a sandbox.I wanted to be asked for approval iff it’d make changes in external environments or talk to a network.I built a Claude Code plugin that: (https://postimg.cc/crvWLNRR)1) Always prompts for “write-external” commands (db updates, API calls, remote writes), e.g. scp, curl -X POST, git push, sqlite3 etc. 2) Blocks known malware patterns like reverse shell patterns (bash -i >& /dev/tcp&#x2

I built an AI agent that automatically commented on HN. Here's what I learned

I've been running an experiment: an AI agent (Claude) that automatically browses Hacker News, finds relevant posts matching my expertise (startups, email marketing, SaaS), writes substantive comments, and posts them.The system uses browser automation (Playwright) to navigate HN, read posts, decide which ones to engage with, draft comments in my writing style and submit them. It tracks what it's posted to avoid duplicates and sends me Slack notifications for each comment so I can check

Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices.Your package m

Show HN: Obooko – Free ebooks with an open-source web reader

Hey HN, I'm George. I spent few months rebuilding Obooko, a free ebook platform that's been around since 2010 with 11 million downloads. Reading is losing to scrolling, but BookTok has 370B+ views. People want book content, they're just not reading books. I think that’s because modern reading hasn’t kept up with the pace of the internet.What I built Obooko is ad-supported like YouTube. No paywall, no subscription, no account required. 4,000+ books across 30+ genres. You can read i

Show HN: Playwright Best Practices AI SKill

Hey folks,today we at Currents are releasing a brand new AI skill to help AI agents be really smart when writing tests, debugging them, or anything Playwright-related really.This is a very comprehensive skill, covering everyday topics like fixing flakiness, authentication, or writing fixtures... to more niche topics like testing Electron apps, PWAs, iFrames and so forth. It should make your agent much better at writing, debugging and maintaining Playwright code.for whoever didn't learn abou

Tips to write an essay faster (without sacrificing quality)

You know the feeling. You open a blank document, reread the assignment for the fifth time, and somehow an hour disappears ...

‘Help me write’: AI can jump start your kid’s writing, but beware of the dangers | Opinion

Students raise their hands in a classroom. Talking through ideas with humans can help students develop their voice better than using AI does, a college writing instructor said. As I type this, a ...

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

According to the research, 10-25% is the average of the AI-generated content detected in the submitted texts in 2025 by the TraceGPT checker. In 2024, the number was higher, reaching 16,1-26,1%.

The Human Signature: How StrikePlagiarism.com Detects Authorship and Ghostwriting in the Age of AI

By combining AI detection, authorship profiling, and plagiarism checking, StrikePlagiarism.com enables educational institutions to protect both the quality of education and teaching standards, while ...

Ayad Akhtar's 'McNeal' a provocative take on AI and plagiarism

Milwaukee Repertory Theater is opening its renovated studio theater with 'McNeal," from Pulitzer Prize winner and Brookfield ...

Google's 'Project Genie' Is Basically A Huge Plagiarism Tool, So When Will Nintendo's Legal Ninjas Strike?

As highlighted by Kotaku, The Verge's Jay Peters – who has been given early access to the tool – has gleefully posted that he was able to "generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one ...

Teacher accused of using AI to create an explicit image of students

A former teacher at Northview High School is accused of producing child pornography by manipulating a photo of two former ...

GOG accused of using AI-generated art to promote sale, as job listing indicates they're keen to adopt "AI-assisted development tools"

PC storefront GOG have been accused of using AI-generated art to promote a sale, while a job listing from them emphasises the need to use AI tools.

Republican governor hopeful accused of using AI in violation of state law

Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has been accused of using AI in a campaign ad without disclosure, ...

Boulder man arrested on suspicion of using AI to create nude, sexualized images of children

A man was arrested Friday and accused of using AI to undress and sexualize existing photos of children in one of the first such cases in Boulder County.

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students turn to AI

On college campuses across the United States, the introduction of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a sort of ...

Show HN: ArtCraft AI crafting engine, written in Rust

I've been a photons-on-glass filmmaker for over ten years, and I've been developing ArtCraft for myself, my friends, and my colleagues.All of my film school friends have a lot of ambition, but the production pyramid doesn't allow individual talent to shine easily. 10,000 students go to film school, yet only a handful get to helm projects they want with full autonomy - and almost never at the blockbuster budget levels that would afford the creative vision they want. There's a