The Anatomy of a Literary Scandal
The pillorying of Canadian-Haitian novelist Thélyson Orélien, accused of using AI to write his new novel, is the latest in a ...
The Unemployed Professor
[Reading and Writing Proficiency Test] 30 Predicted Opinion Essay Topics for Grade 3! 2026 Edition
February 2027 examEven after finishing your study for the Grade 3 Reading and Writing Proficiency Test, do you ever find yourself hesitating once you start writing an opinion essay, wondering things l ...
Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
I've read lots of articles about how Americans hate their tipping culture. But tipping is optional so why don't they just stop? If you don't tip you both help society improve and you save money. Win-win.
Show HN: Flopper is a hardware explorer for AI infrastructure and beyond
Hello!I built Flopper to make it easier to compare GPUs and understand the tradeoffs for workloads for AI and beyond.When researching GPUs from say Nvidia, AMD, and Huawei, I kept running into the same problem: specs were scattered across datasheets,...
Show HN: All Things Banana – banana news, prices, and a daily Wikipedia game
Hello,I'll start by saying yes, I was helped by a coding agent to make this game, so if you're against that, I apologize in advance.For everyone else, I'd like to introduce you to the best thing my brain could bake: the bananadle. The...
Ask HN: Could someone share a lobste.rs invite?
Hello! I've been lurking in the irc chat for lobsters for a week or two and haven't caught anyone to ask for an invite!Would a kind soul help me out! I lurk alot in lobste.rs and lately I've been wanting to comment.Any kindness would b...
You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human
I write a golf blog. Recently, it's been getting a nontrivial amount of attention from a very niche section of the nerd-golf community.I've been getting a small number of emails and message from people because of this. This is how it has be...
Math Association Accuses Open AI Of Plagiarism, Copyright Violation, Urges Mathematicians Not To Work With Firm
The Association for Human Mathematics stated that OpenAI releasing the manuscripts was not a demonstration of scholarship, ...
Going analog in the writing classroom
As a writing teacher based in college classrooms around Seattle, I find myself returning to a question each time I prep for a new quarter: How should I use or refuse technology? Since I began teaching ...
Dartmouth provost accused of using AI to write nearly all his papers
A mathematics professor and provost at Dartmouth College has been accused of using AI to write nearly all of his academic ...
Show HN: Authrot – a writing studio that maps your characters, places and plot
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...
Show HN: Octri.dev – Generate customizable docs, 10 SDKs, and get an MCP server
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...
OpenAI's rogue AI agents accused of causing Wikipedia service outage
Wikimedia says OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agents crawled millions of pages, made unauthorised edits and generated heavy traffic that ...
Misusing AI At Work Is Due To Workers That Entail Bad Apples, Bad Cases, And Bad Barrels
AI misuse is on the rise inside companies. Why? Because of bad apples, bad cases, and bad barrels. An AI Insider analysis and ...
Show HN: MapLibre Compose, Interactive Vector Maps for Compose Multiplatform
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...
Show HN: The Velocity Trap, the Phoenix Project for the AI Age
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...
Show HN: I wrote a book to help developers to improve their writing
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...
Show HN: Teacher Planner – A digital planbook with AI tools for teachers
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...
Show HN: Timeline of the Far Future
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...
Show HN: A critical thinking site for kids and teens
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...