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Show HN: I'm 17 and built an Integrated AI Writing Assistant and Environment
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We’re a group of high school students who built Factful, a Chrome extension that helps with research, fact-checking, and writing—all inline. When we first launched Factful as a web app, we got a lot of feedback asking for a more integrated experience, so we built a Chrome extension to let you fact-check and look up information without switching tabs.

Making this work inside Google Docs was way harder than expected. Since Docs renders text using a canvas instead of regular HTML, we had to come up with creative workarounds to analyze and interact with what’s being written. It took a ton of experimentation, but we finally got it working smoothly.

We first posted on HN a while back and got amazing feedback, which helped us refine the fact-checking accuracy, improve the UI, and add better citation formatting. We're still in beta, and we'd love to hear what else we can improve.

Let us know what you think—what’s missing? What would make this a tool you’d actually use?
It is worth remembering that the inflation rate is always a policy choice - it is impossible to have hyperinflation without someone running a printing press at high speeds. So when you say "on the brink of hyperinflation" what you are implying is the Fed are considering adopting hyperinflation as a policy. That is unlikely; everyone knows how hyperinflations end and they are unlikely to just randomly adopt a policy known to be disastrous. Even if pressured by something big like the collapse of the US dollar or the US being in a position where no-one will buy their debt at an interest rate they can handle.

If the US has a problem, it'll look like some fairly substantial hit (eg, external forces closing their current account deficit) and a longish period of being economically weakened due to a lack of investment in productive capital. Maybe some riots since the pain will probably not be spread evenly.

It is a catastrophe, but mainly a catastrophe of opportunity costs. We've had a counterfactual running in China over the last 20 years of what could have been happening in the US economy if they hadn't mucked up their overall strategy (particularly energy policy and banking regulation) so badly. Plus there is an impression forming that they are actually a lot weaker militarily than had been assumed to date, I wouldn't put money on Taiwan's long term independence right now. The US doesn't have the funds to handle all the military problems if overseas nations stop picking up the tab.
One reason is that it makes it impractical for any relatives to visit.
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US are 19th according to this list:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/foreign-aid-given-per-cap...
> The attempt at the "GNU OS" failed

No it didn't: GNU / Linux is a huge success.
Ain't gonna happen.

US businesses are incapable of thinking long term.

If the US wants to build a ship industry they must invite Chinese shipbuilders to kickstart it just as they invited TSMC to build a factory here.

But that doesn't seem likely does it?
> what the fuck are the Democratic governors and states doing right now?

Defying presidential orders. Suing to block them.
The Democrat party is aligned and heavily-overlapping with what everyone is calling "the deep state". And the state is the one that prosecuted those individuals.

That is why everyone is calling out the alternative treatment of the BLM rioters which are heavily-aligned and supported by the Democratic party. If it was indeed the "state" that was impartially and fairly prosecuting and jailing all law-breakers, then the Republicans would have no argument and I'd be the first to disagree with them. But to a lot of us, the bias and double-standards are very obvious, which is why we're supporting them now.
“I’m sorry buddy, it’s not up to me!”

https://youtu.be/wGy5SGTuAGI?t=218
No, there’s multiple options. Our biology is based on endless optimization of one of them not the only possibility.
> Huh? Most Firefox users presumably use it, and anyway it's obviously essential and extremely useful functionality.

~~Only Firefox users who explicitly enable offline translation per langauge in Settings use this feature~~, which will be a tiny minority of users in a browser with a tiny (~2.5%) market share.

I'm wrong, the language packs now auto-download.

> And the really important languages for EU/US audiences are, in order, English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Italian, which is, guess what, 7 languages...

Well, those weren't the seven languages supported by the Bergamot project when it ended. Only two of your seven were supported: Bulgarian, Czech, English, Estonian, French, Polish, and Spanish.
Cantonese has no:

- Standard

- Country that speaks it (only Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Overseas Diaspora speak it).

- Learners of the language are primarily within the above territories and learn it through exposure, not through actual proper education in Cantonese itself. But rather learn Standard Chinese writing in school, and just "auto-translate" to Cantonese in their mind. I would even say most Cantonese people don't know how to write Cantonese given the "defaulting to Standard Chinese". A lot of the times when I ask a Cantonese speaker how to write something in Cantonese, they don't know. This is due to many reasons which I won't elaborate atm in order to not make this post longer than what it already is. While this is good in "getting away with being able to write Chinese and communicate with the broader Chinese speaking world", it is not good for Cantonese itself. This is why we have so many words in Cantonese that don't even have a character. It also explains why eventually people did want to create more and more characters and luckily we were at least able to get the Hong Kong Supplementary Set standardized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Supplementary_Charac...

There has never been a point in Chinese history where the Chinese government has had this much power, and we already have plenty of evidence that they suppress and would like to eliminate the language from existence, and create their own view of what a "Chinese Person" and "Chinese Identity" is. Furthermore, we've already lost and mostly lost a lot of other Chinese languages. Hakka being one of them. It would be extremely difficult to find a Hakka speaker and Hakka learning resources at this point in time.

My time line for when Cantonese will die is far into the future, outside of my life time. But I would put it within the next 300-500 years or lower. Given this context, it is better to start the preservation and education efforts as early as possible.

I'm not expecting you to agree with me, but I wanted to give you some context. I'm not alone in my views.
How do you avoid branches in 64-bit WASM?
I understand that phrase to have the opposite meaning: Something _can_ adapt its behavior after deployment and still be considered AI under the definition. Of course this aspect is well known as online learning in machine learning terminology.
Great things are coming in the digital part of the RF field. Unfortunately, the knowledge transfer is failing greatly in the analog part of it...
What do you mean, "nearly from scratch"?

Aleph Alpha is a business that has been going for some time in this sector, at least a couple of years with commercial LLM products. It's likely they'll provide hardware and base models for this project.
Cline is great, it has been my go-to ever since it came out. Works out far cheaper than Cursor would for my relatively low amount of coding, and I get to use all the stuff in VS I would anyway.
> developing the first meaningful fully-reusable first stage rocket, and continuing to develop it to the extent that no other launch systems are even in the same ballpark as regards cost, cadence, or mass to orbit.

The space shuttle solid boosters were reusable, the only part of the space shuttle program that wasn't, was the big orange tank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_B...
It _may_ exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, which would not change it being AI. I think that is the right reading of the definition.
At least the file wasn't Michael Jackson bad (bad, bad, really, really bad).
Ask HN: What are you using to send marketing emails in 2025?
We are an retail start-up with an email list of about 800 customers.

We have been using the in-built Shopify campaigns functionality but we are looking to expand our campaigns in the future and looking for a new tool which supports this.

What are you using?
China saved Apple from bankruptcy but now holds the company hostage
As a wise song once said, "You'd be non-conforming, too, if you looked just like me."
i tried to access say game developer but says "there was an issue loading this document. go back home" :(
This isn’t directly related, but close enough. I used to be bullish on tech, thinking it would secure and streamline business flows.

But now after decades in risk management, I’ve seen firsthand that tech alone doesn’t solve much - the real challenges are people, process, and execution.

Even with the best tools, most (~70%) of digital transformations fail, often due to poor adoption, bad processes, or simple human error.

And after all these efforts... we’re finding more vulnerabilities than ever, maybe showing that security isn’t just about better tech — it’s about people making the right decisions.

The older I get, the more I focus on these challenges, because without solving them, even the best tech/software/code is just another liability.
Homebrew's new Git signing key
That’s absolutely asinine and not at all what I said.

The EU over regulates things like tech and that why they won’t be successful at have an AI tech scene. Over time, anyone good will migrate to the US or China where they can work faster and not have as many rules to deal with.

A simple example is hiring and firing people - it’s much easier to make personnel changes in the US than Europe. As a result, US companies can take more risks.
In their tool comparison section they did mention aider, but they did not mention RA.Aid (https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid, Apache 2.0), which puts aider in a full-fledged development agent.

The experience of using RA.Aid is similar to using cline (or Devin), but it is a simple CLI command and not tied to any IDE. In fact you could use tmux, nvim, and RA.Aid in chat mode and have an experience that is not far off from vscode with cline, cursor, or windsurf.
> just one or two personal vids and then I'm probably done with this for good.

I think you're underestimating the skill involved in making the flip book.

While you may just have one or two videos to make into flip books, I strongly suspect it will take you at least 4 or 5 attempts on the 1st one to get something that isn't a pile of crap that doesn't perform as a flip book very well, and/or falls apart almost immediately.

In the long run unless you really want to go through the process of refining the process for the enjoyment of that, it would be cheaper in both time and material costs to buy from the OP.
Is the regulation itself AI, due to bein adaptive after deployment?

Just joking, but I think it is a funny parallel. Also because of it being probably solely human made rules.
A mere dozen years. Kids nowadays, the attention span of a fruit fly...
The realpolitik of the situation: you can only really have an alliance among equals and its foolish to believe otherwise with a massive power imbalance (I doubt the cultural boundaries in Europe will aid this endeavor for some kind of unified security umbrella, when unification of the sovereign euro debt markets has remained illusive as represented by the spreads). It's clear that the post wwii era where the US willingly funds everything under the sun ex-stateside without clear equivalent concessions that can be sold politically to the stateside is over for now.

I'm hopeful that it will create a more robust governance systems on the local level in the long run, but not without more short term pain (after all, there were a lot of non-stateside mouths being fed who will have to figure out realistic alternatives and face once unpalatable choices that will need to be made out of necessity).
Yes, it saddens me to see one of the three branches almost capitulate to another. If there's gonna be any in-fighting, let it be amongst the branches.
I stand corrected on this point, the language packs now auto-download.

It's still a niche feature only partially built by a Horizon project (it was almost entirely built by commercial entities - MS and Mozilla) in a niche browser.

It's an indictment of the Horizon programme that this is considered the pre-eminent success story.
It's a hysteria party to sell ads. Here's how I see it: we have a $7 TRILLION budget for 2025 and Musk is trying to cut $2 TRILLION from it. Both the Democrats and Republicans probably want the budget cut, it's way out of control. They're just letting Musk take the heat because he doesn't have to get reelected. If it succeeds, the Dems will just let it lie, if it fails, they have campaign fodder for the next election.

Remember, last year we paid more in interest on debt than our entire military budget.
I don't get it, you can set as many budget alerts as you like on AWS. If you get an email you can decide to stop the service.
Par for the course, really. Still can't zoom into images on Instagram, can you?

The one and only supported image resolution is also lower than any of the screens I use.

The app is really hard to believe from a technical perspective, in general.
Thank you for the corrections, I definitely agree that while I've learned a lot of Cantonese in the past 11 years, I still have a long way to go and loving the process. Given that Cantonese is my third language (I've studied a bunch of other languages, but Cantonese is third language I'm actually specializing in for personal reasons), it makes sense that it sounds unnatural, at least for now. For a portion of it I do agree with the other commenter that it is a stylistic choice. The % part is just me using what's already popular in Cantonese speaking which is to use the "pou-cent" type of style rather than the more traditional way. You are right regarding 學院, my school advertises itself in this way hence my usage of it ;D. But overall, you got what I was trying to say which is the most important part of the process, I'll continue to improve over time :).
That's if we had a democratic president. We most certainly won't respond in the next 4 years to anything China or Russia does. The only thing they have to do for that benefit is not attack us directly.
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What you will be doing: You will implement code according to specification (you can influence those of course), work on our backlog and go on bug hunting sessions with a debugger. You will be working together with us and will not shy away from asking us questions proactively by talking/writing in fluent English. You will be enjoying cheat vendors catching up to us and playing the cat and mouse game with them.

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Their bill increased ...
I wonder if this is the “RTX Mega Geometry” they showed to the Digital Foundry guys a few weeks back: https://youtu.be/HLxVskv2zs0?si=V1wi_4xCgk5M34gL.
i don't know which one is more crazier

you don't know where taiwan is

or

you know it well but still think it's totally normal and reasonable to do that
When screens were secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti
A counterexample for you: 聶 nip6, never lip6. 獵 lip6, never nip6. 焫 naat3, "lazily" laat3. 辣 laat6, never naat6. (Yes, almost everywhere interchangeable)
That darkness… wow. I’ve met someone like that, and it made me think I was crazy. I guess it’s your brain stem warning you that this person is dangerous in a certain kind of way— extreme dark triad traits.
> To me it’s just generative AI, LLMs, media generation.

That's not what AI is.

Artificial Intelligence has decades of use in academia. Even a script which plays Tic Tac Toe is AI. LLMs have advanced the field profoundly and gained widespread use. But that doesn't mean that a Tic Tac Toe bot is no longer AI.

When a term passes to the mainstream people manufacture their own idea of what it means. This has happened to the term "hacker". But that doesn't mean decades of AI papers are wrong because the public uses a different definition.

It's similar to the professional vs the public understanding of the term "prop" in movie making. People were criticizing Alec Baldwin for using a real gun on the set of Rust instead of a "prop" gun. But as movie professionals explained, a real gun is a prop gun. Prop in theater/movies just means property. It's anything that's used in the production. Prop guns can be plastic replicas, real guns which have been disabled, or actually firing guns. Just because the public thinks "prop" means "fake", doesn't mean movie makers have to change their terms.
I wish the effort well. Any change is welcome.
Meta smart glasses spending approaches $100B
Our elected officials don't have any direct power over government agencies (ministerstyre), they create laws that the agencies need to follow. Then we have independent bodies that can investigate and remove bureaucrats that don't follow the law.

Now are there any cracks in this system? Probably. But we dont have a president with unlimited power than can only be checked by congress at this point.
Perhaps you could say something concrete, rather than vague criticism?
Sadly, certificate pinning/certificate transparency makes this not so useful for apps that want to enforce security.

It would be very interesting to get something that can actually hook into the most common ssl libraries and/or decryption functions, and tries to dump things on the fly. Sure it'll still be blocked if there's tampering detection, but at least it could give some real transparent insight on calls done by some apps at times.
Totally. And where do you work that's so much more succesful? lol

No, millions of people smarter and more succesful than you TELLING you it's useful is what makes it more useful. But when you're this arrogant it'll never register.

Like I said, this is nothing new. It's like the arrogant boobs who thought smartphones were just a fad. Or the famous HN commenter who said Dropbox was pointless.
FBI agents who investigate UFOs worried they could be pushed out
On what kind of plan?
> Bitcoiners are drawn from a normal distribution and not from the bottom part of the distribution

I think it's objective truth to note that "Bitcoiners" are predominantly comprised of:

a) people conducting illegal affairs (don't read this as "illegal" in the sense of jaywalking)

b) technically illiterate people, down on their luck and hoping to get rich quickly

With those in mind, I would argue that "Bitcoiners" are instead drawn from the left side of most distributions.
Yes, it is. Yours.
Does this only apply to usage, or does it include training the model as well? Training a model is extremely expensive, and it’s hard to imagine a company investing a huge amount of money to develop two different models just to comply with regulations (though maybe it’s worth it, I’m just guessing here).

I think it’s more likely that companies would adhere to EU regulations and use the same model everywhere or implement some kind of filter.
Even If I take everything you said here to the T, being brilliant in making tech startups does not AT ALL mean they'll be brilliant understanding government processes and structures.

This over arrogance of us techies thinking because we're good with computers we're the best at everything is what people are annoyed and, justifiably critical of.

You're going to be responsible to assess and dismantle a government agency with thousands of employees and billions in budget being in your twenties with ZERO gov experience is indeed a huge red flag and not merely putting a target because they're young.

We've all met incredibly accomplished people who are not to be trusted with sharp objects. Expertise in one area does not translate to another easily.
I wonder who you'd put in that bucket today, who is the looming incumbent who might just show up and eat your lunch. For some time it was Meta, they definitely strong armed a bunch of small upstarts to sell out rather than compete. Right now I'm not so sure, there isn't any single name that comes to mind.
Thanks! I actually recently tweaked the number bonds game because losing a point for a wrong answer triggered a meltdown. So now it gives another chance
That's how I see it as well. Government in theory should protect the citizens, which I assume often means the consumers and the workers. But maybe capitalism run amok is when capitalists accumulate the power and use it to strong-arm the government into liking the corporate shareholders (capitalists?) more than the citizens.
Hey, I'm interested in the details of this. How many persons in the puzzle? Did it include nested statements, conditionals and such?

If the puzzle generator is hosted anywhere, I'd love to have a look at it.
My favourite paragraph was

"The most obvious is Google. There can only be one big man in town, and they're clearly it. Google is the most dangerous company now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. Microsoft can at best limp along afterward"

Is Google dying or dead in this sense now too? I can't think of any company they've bullied recently but maybe I'm just not in their space. All the excitement seemed to move over to social media companies and Apple, then Nvidia and all the industries it spawned. Google certainly aren't driving commercial innovation in the way they were when Gmail was a hot new topic.
Is the link supposed to go to a slideshow?