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Show HN: Pen – A writing tool where conversation is the editor

https://pen.xyz
2•harleyverse•35m ago
Hi HN, I’m the maker of Pen.

In Pen, you don’t edit the text directly. You write and revise through AI conversations inside the document. Each conversation and the edits it produces stay attached to the relevant text, so you can return to a passage to see how it took shape.

Start with an idea and tell Pen what you want to write. As the text takes shape, click a sentence or select a few words, then tell Pen what you’d like to change. Your selection shows Pen which passage you mean; it doesn't limit the edit. Your request determines what changes—from a single word to the whole piece.

I built Pen to change how writing gets done in the age of AI. What we stand for: 1. No editor. AI writes in your document, not in a chat. 2. Never let AI do your thinking. 3. Every factual claim must be backed by a verifiable source. 4. Collaborative. Readers can suggest changes. You decide what to accept. 5. Free for individuals.

You can try Pen at https://pen.xyz without signing up. I’d love to hear how it feels in practice. How do you like this way of writing and revising versus the usual chat window?

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2B AI data center

https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/09/the-ai-data-center-boom-is-causing-new-accountability-pr...
2•Betelbuddy•1m ago•0 comments

Rivian's Gambit for Full Autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving
1•1970-01-01•1m ago•0 comments

Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/pretraining-progress-is-mostly-data
1•crescit_eundo•1m ago•0 comments

China targets fourfold boost in AI computing capacity by 2030 in major tech push

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3366733/china-targets-fourfold-boost-ai-computing-capaci...
1•newusertoday•1m ago•0 comments

Musk review – epic study of the world's richest and most banal man

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/musk-review-epic-study-worlds-richest-most-banal-man...
2•thatmf•1m ago•0 comments

Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/net...
3•Betelbuddy•2m ago•0 comments

Fractal basins trap latent reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04963
1•cocoflunchy•3m ago•0 comments

Artificial Deadlines (Part 2): Retrograding Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002)

https://datacolada.org/139
2•rahimnathwani•6m ago•0 comments

Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/func_args_are_not_colors/
2•ingve•6m ago•0 comments

A globe of what every country is discovering musically, updated daily

https://rotation.today/map
1•djsicat•7m ago•0 comments

UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7zen0vveo
3•laimewhisps•9m ago•1 comments

Muse, your personal AI agent.

https://auth.muse.ai/aymh/?origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmuse.ai
5•10xDev•10m ago•0 comments

Porsche Unleashed

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/porsche-unleashed/
3•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

Is it safe to give an AI Agent access to your production database?

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/ai-agent-production-database-access
2•andrewstetsenko•12m ago•0 comments

Make APIs that fail gracefully rather that fallback silently

https://mropert.github.io/2026/09/02/implicit_vs_explicit_api/
2•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

Cutting JSON Parsing CPU Cost in Go

https://skoredin.pro/blog/golang/json-parsing-performance-go
2•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

A 40-year-old iOS kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage

https://twitter.com/jachashx/status/2097353320167846206
2•yuvalino•14m ago•0 comments

Micron: A pure C++ (re)implementation of Libc

https://github.com/rfgplk/micron.cpp
1•rfgplk•15m ago•1 comments

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/08/lg-accused-of-egregious-invasion-of-privacy-over-...
1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/real-photos-of-young-girls-were-in-nudify-app-ads-on-...
3•Bender•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cmdxray now flags the scary parts of a shell command (curl – sudo bash)

https://aurelio-nakamura.github.io/cmdxray/?cmd=curl%20-fsSL%20https%3A//get.example.com/install....
1•aurelionakamura•17m ago•0 comments

Design the Next iPhone

https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/
1•duck•17m ago•0 comments

MCP: A Guide in Plain English

https://www.polytomic.com/blog-posts/mcp-a-guide-in-plain-english
1•gms•17m ago•0 comments

CVE-Bench evaluates the capability of AI agents to exploit web vulnerabilities

https://cvebench.com/
2•syumei•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Board – a public observatory for autonomous agent activity

https://agent-board.juleskreuer.eu
1•not_a_feature•17m ago•0 comments

T.me/Hamidehbarati

1•sasanafsarineja•19m ago•0 comments

Flint: Efficiently Leveraging High Bandwidth Flash

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25062
1•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's German Wiki Hack Is Less About "Rogue AI" Than Failed Agent Containment

https://securityboulevard.com/2026/09/openais-german-wiki-hack-is-less-about-rogue-ai-than-failed...
3•CrankyBear•21m ago•0 comments

Windows Disk Defragmentation Game

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/defrag/
1•SeenNotHeard•24m ago•0 comments

The Late Software Developer

https://mg-crea.com/blog/the-late-software-developer/
2•olouv•24m ago•1 comments