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Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
3•zdw•1h ago

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jruohonen•1h ago
"So, in this case, chatbots disserved him heavily. He was totally lost in his own setup. He had LLMs generate walls of text he could not read. Instead of trying to think for himself, he tried to have chatbots pass the exam for him, which was doomed to fail because I was asking him, not the chatbots. He passed but would probably have fared better without chatbots."

The Unexpected Logic of Art Economics: Arts and Inequality in 80s NY (2020)

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/unexpected-logic-art-economics
1•hyperific•1m ago•0 comments

I found a secret protocol in Predator Spyware – iOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5A2Ydd1L9A
1•tonygo•3m ago•1 comments

Her 10 Years Instagram Handle Was 'Metaverse.' Last Month, It Vanished. (2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/instagram-handle-metaverse.html
1•airhangerf15•5m ago•0 comments

Global Renewables Watch

https://github.com/microsoft/global-renewables-watch
1•toomuchtodo•7m ago•1 comments

Italian fashion designer Valentino dies at 93

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/19/1114518694/valentino-garavani-dead
4•andsoitis•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lite Bible – A fast, minimalist Bible reader

https://litebible.org/
1•foxinthebox•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sign and initial PDFs in the browser (no uploads)

https://instantpdfsign.com
1•assetofbaskets•12m ago•0 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
3•praptak•12m ago•0 comments

Can AI Pass Freshman CS? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJQm5nb0U
1•Antibabelic•12m ago•0 comments

Solidity 0.8.32/0.8.33

https://www.soliditylang.org/blog/2025/12/18/solidity-0.8.32-0.8.33-release-announcement/
1•andrewstetsenko•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Imagine Play – Generated stories with illustrations and narration

https://imagineplay.org/
2•foxinthebox•14m ago•0 comments

Well, There Goes the Metaverse

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/19/well-there-goes-the-metaverse/
3•belter•15m ago•1 comments

Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1UfLPK7_Q
1•kerim-ca•15m ago•0 comments

Another Way to Rate Incidents

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/22/another-way-to-rate-incidents/
1•azhenley•15m ago•0 comments

Why high-cardinality workloads fail differently in Prometheus vs. ClickHouse

https://last9.io/blog/high-cardinality-metrics-prometheus-clickhouse/
1•nishantmodak•16m ago•0 comments

A16Z hires acquitted former Marine Daniel Penny as an investor

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/a16z-hires-acquitted-former-marine-daniel-penny-as-an-investor/
2•ian_d•17m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Why not have cemeteries for lines of descent?

2•amichail•18m ago•2 comments

AI Engineering: Pi 5 x K8s x Nvidia GPU passthrough [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3W_t9fJ1R1Q
1•johnsmith2076•19m ago•0 comments

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/
3•CrankyBear•19m ago•0 comments

Trump's Crypto Gamble

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trumps-crypto-gamble
3•petethomas•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?

1•amadeuswoo•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI

https://gitclassic.com
2•heythisischris•26m ago•0 comments

New in Llama.cpp: Anthropic Messages API

https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-org/anthropic-messages-api-in-llamacpp
1•gslin•26m ago•0 comments

Stop resetting your product philosophy every quarter

2•jchitla•27m ago•1 comments

2.4x Faster Token Generation on CPU – Without Sacrificing Persona

https://github.com/dingste/mallama
1•dingte•28m ago•0 comments

The Loss of Stop Conditions in Modern Life

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/anchors-and-constraints-practical-cognitive-hygiene-in-moder...
3•realitydrift•29m ago•1 comments

Seamless Claude Code Handoff: SSH from Your Phone with Tmux

https://elliotbonneville.com/phone-to-mac-persistent-terminal/
1•elliotbnvl•31m ago•0 comments

Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher

https://nautil.us/why-the-do-nothing-challenge-doesnt-do-much-for-you-1262005/
2•akakievich•33m ago•0 comments

Enough with the microservices (2017)

https://adamdrake.com/enough-with-the-microservices.html
1•martinlaz•35m ago•0 comments

Why Go (the game) is going nowhere

https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/01/15/why-go-is-going-nowhere
2•andsoitis•36m ago•0 comments