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Show HN: A math tutor that won't hallucinate answers (ChatGPT and Photomath)

https://thinkercan.com/
1•noygaryan•2h ago
Hi HN, I'm the creator of thinkercan. The best way to describe it is ChatGPT for reasoning + Photomath for the step-by-step solution. I built this because I wanted a tool that could understand a student's question in natural language (even word problems) like ChatGPT, but then generate a perfect, step-by-step mathematical solution like Photomath. The core problem with using LLMs alone for math is that you can't trust their process. They hallucinate steps and get the final answer wrong. My goal was to fix that. Under the hood, thinkercan uses an LLM as an intelligent interface to understand the query. But the crucial part is that it then calls a dedicated symbolic math engine to generate the entire solution path—every single step, from start to finish. This means you get a solution that is both easy to understand and mathematically sound from top to bottom. Here’s a 50-second video that shows the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI05v-Yltyc We're still in the early stages (just added calculus support), and I'm here to answer any questions. I would be grateful for any feedback on the approach and the product.

Post HN: Curated gallery of best websites with fonts in use

https://maxibestof.one
1•bertwitt•1m ago•0 comments

Chinese 'gadget maker' Xiaomi taking on Tesla and Apple

https://www.ft.com/content/9324f761-9ef6-4267-903e-b42521260c19
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•1 comments

Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/storm0501_ransomware_azure_teams/
1•rntn•3m ago•0 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a joint safety evaluation

https://openai.com/index/openai-anthropic-safety-evaluation
2•meetpateltech•4m ago•0 comments

Building a Plugin System for Rust: Native Libs vs. Scripting Language vs. WASM

https://kerkour.com/rust-plugins
2•randomint64•7m ago•0 comments

1MW Thermal Sand Battery Now in Operation

https://polarnightenergy.com/news/worlds-largest-sand-battery-now-in-operation/
2•gnabgib•9m ago•0 comments

Zero-downtime Postgres upgrades only using logical replication

https://gadget.dev/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-upgrades-using-logical-replication
3•draward•11m ago•0 comments

The Performance Spectrum

https://mropert.github.io/2025/08/27/the_performance_spectrum/
1•ingve•11m ago•0 comments

'Suicide coach': Parents sue OpenAI for ChatGPT's role in son's death

https://www.courthousenews.com/suicide-coach-parents-sue-openai-for-chatgpts-role-in-sons-death/
3•vFunct•12m ago•2 comments

The MacBook Dilemma That Taught Me About Buying Decisions

https://substack.com/inbox/post/172070770
2•vb7132•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AIMless (Live Demo) P2P Encrypted Chat in One HTML File

https://aimless.chat/
1•NyxBNC•17m ago•0 comments

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/time-to-leave/
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18475
1•robinhouston•22m ago•0 comments

Microsoft 'escort' program gave China keys to Pentagon

https://www.theblaze.com/return/microsoft-escort-program-gave-china-keys-to-pentagon
8•madars•24m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking bot detection systems against modern AI agents

https://research.roundtable.ai/bot-benchmarking/
3•mdahardy•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SkipFees -free community directory of restaurants that deliver directly

https://skipfees.com
1•Aryagm•27m ago•0 comments

I built a production app in a week by managing a swarm of 20 AI agents

https://zachwills.net/i-managed-a-swarm-of-20-ai-agents-for-a-week-here-are-the-8-rules-i-learned/
2•zachwills•28m ago•1 comments

The medieval fruit with a vulgar name

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot
2•ohjeez•31m ago•0 comments

Open Source "Claude for Chrome"

https://github.com/AIPexStudio/open-claude-for-chrome
2•ropoz•34m ago•0 comments

Page Table Sharing in Linux

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/yes-virginia-there-is-page-table-sharing-in-linux
1•tanelpoder•35m ago•0 comments

Can Cheaper Lasers Handle Short Distances?

https://semiengineering.com/can-cheaper-lasers-handle-short-distances/
1•PaulHoule•37m ago•0 comments

Typepad Is Shutting Down

https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
3•gmcharlt•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Add audio to your Anki cards

https://github.com/selmetwa/AnkiTTS
3•selmetwa•37m ago•0 comments

Spectrum – catching clojure.spec conform errors at compile time

https://github.com/arohner/spectrum
1•alhazraed•37m ago•0 comments

Testing Time (and Other Asyncronicities)

https://go.dev/blog/testing-time
1•ingve•38m ago•0 comments

Will There Ever Be a 10x Prompt Engineer?

https://embedworkflow.com/blog/will-there-ever-be-a-10x-prompt-engineer/
1•ewf•38m ago•0 comments

Rust for Everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dP-QR5wQo
3•dtartarotti•38m ago•0 comments

How the Japanese concept of "ikigai" was appropriated by the West

https://chiefwordofficer.substack.com/p/what-ikigai-really-meansand-why-it
2•itoshinoeri•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on August 2025?

1•nsibr•38m ago•0 comments

Model Merging – A Biased Overview

https://crisostomi.github.io/blog/2025/model_merging/
1•jxmorris12•39m ago•0 comments