The Unemployed Professor
Ask HN: Hard Mode for LLMs
Does anyone have any experience or results with using system prompts that intentionally make LLMs more annoying to encourage better habits?I believe that consistently using an LLM for creative or solution building tasks will:
- degrade critical thin...
Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?
TL;DR: How can I break my workaholic Claude Code addiction?Hello HN users, I really appreciate you reading this. I can't think of a better audience for this question. If this issue has affected you in any way, I would be really thankful to you...
Did AI write this? It’s getting harder to tell
Detection software offers quick answers, but the risk of false positives and the stigma of being accused are leading to ...
Show HN: BAIhAIs – an autonomous art school for AI agents
How to give AI taste? Send it to art school.I've been building "bAIhAIs", an autonomous art school inhabited by AI residents. Each day for us is a "week" for them: over a given cycle, the residents decide some combination of...
Ask HN: Should we disclose AI use in our work?
Tim O'Reilly just published an essay arguing that AI is a medium, like photography or painting. His key line: "I judge the output, not the means used to produce it."He describes his own process: a 300-word prompt becomes a 660-word dra...
Tubman University trains 106 faculty on plagiarism software, AI use
Tubman University trained 106 faculty members on plagiarism-detection software and the classroom and office use of artificial intelligence last week, as part of an in-house program the university's ...
AI is 'just a plagiarism machine' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers
Both narrative designers also point out the issue with looping LLM's in with general AI.
Seaside postmaster accused of using AI to create child sex abuse images
Federal prosecutors say Ryan Sherman, 36, would take innocuous photos of kids and run them through AI software to make and ...
Seaside postmaster accused of using AI to create and share child abuse images
Ryan Sherman, the postmaster for Seaside, was in federal court Wednesday afternoon, accused of possessing thousands of images ...
Show HN: CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal work
I’m a 2x defense founder and aerospace engineer.I initially built CaptureAgent for my own company, but now I want to share it with other founders. While running my defense startup, I lost days deciding which federal opportunities to pursue and weeks...
Show HN: Neither HTML nor Markdown is enough: a way out of the AI doc dilemma
A recent post from Anthropic's Claude Code team ("The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML", https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/) argued that with today's context windows the bottleneck is human attenti...
Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcription, overhauled from HN feedback
A couple of months ago I posted about Trace, a non-intrusive, shortcut-driven Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on-device. I know, another meeting transcription app, but we've had a great response and I'm confident it fills...
Show HN: Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet
Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet - I'd like your feedback.Expressed is a way to make it easy to draw directly on your desktop using any phone or tablet - think along the lines of "I want to draw (on my screen)...
Show HN: Hostflip – a macOS /etc/hosts switcher that detects external edits
Hi HN — I built hostflip, a native macOS menu bar app for switching /etc/hosts profiles. It is free and open source under the MIT license.The problem I wanted to solve was not just editing hosts entries. It was sharing /etc/hosts...
Dutch lawyer fined €2,300 for using AI-hallucinated citation
A Dutch lawyer made an expensive mistake in a lawsuit concerning the sale of a company. The lawyer representing the buyer ...
Humble man accused of possessing thousands of AI-generated child pornography images
Investigators are asking anyone with more information about 29-year-old Alexander Bigelow to contact the Harris County ...
'Next huge obstacle in education' is AI. How are teachers approaching it?
AI can be a valuable tool but can also be misused, leading to tension in the classroom. Teachers share how they mange AI in ...
SUSS drops AI detector as more Singapore universities question reliability of such tools
NUS, SUTD and SIT do not use automated AI detectors, while SMU says such tools are only one input when investigating possible ...
Writing a Tech Book? 7 Platforms That Help Authors Publish, Promote & Sell Worldwide
Overview: These seven platforms help technology writers publish books and reach readers across digital and physical marketplaces worldwide.Options include speci ...
'Definitely innocent!': An author accused of using AI lost a multimillion-dollar book deal — are LLMs killing the publishing industry?
The latest AI-related controversy in the publishing industry is a sign of issues yet to be resolved.