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Launching The State of AI in College Admissions - a survey of 166 American Universities on their stated policies for how much AI is allowed in college admissions, what should be di…

Hi HN, I am building Torsor - AI assistants that create fully formatted Microsoft Word documents for teams & businesses. Many industries and teams create MS Word documents as essen…

I am building GradPilot (www.gradpilot.com) to help students with their graduate school application essays. We believe that AI can help many students review their own college appli…

No. The secret is the gamble

At first glance this sounds like genius but its not YC or any successful VC doesn't fund ideas. There is something else the founders have figured out which is key to success and fu…

This is obviously worse because future transactions depend on people with coins in the past

bitcoin doesnt suffer this because proof of work provides an independent method for verification. the energy utilization argument that comes up should be evaluated in the context o…

"How do we know that the Bible is true? Well we know that the Bible is true...because the Bible tells us so" The circular logic of PoS: 1. The list of valid transactions determines…

Came here to say that this is one gripping book

Do some people have specific ideas or visions of what this could turn out to be? I've tried to play this out in my head but wasn't able to arrive at any new paradigms but then agai…

what are some unique things people on the grid do?

At first I didn't believe what I was reading, since my experience has not been anything close to whats been described. Then I found : http://www.notablebrahmins.com NB Score, WTF: …

This is the difference between Product & Technology, in their literal terms

"Come for the tool, Stay for the network"

Your site is rad. Here's my idea: P2P grid compute + storage that is actually cheap and can drive down the cost of computation significantly. Can be achieved with unikernels, homom…

Ok, thanks for that feedback. It's currently disabled while I figure out next steps

Thanks for all the feedback HN, I do agree the service is a risky tool so right now I've stubbed it out, effectively disabling its use while I figure out how to address the comment…

Thanks for linking this

Great suggestion, thanks!

It's definitely not point-and-click. My thesis (and experience) is that it has gotten harder Building & Deploying on clouds has gotten easier, and many dev environments have idle, …

Love this tool too, thanks for linking it in

Updated the FAQs. Thanks for pointing this out

gotcha, thanks makes sense now. > Q: Do you store my card? > A: We do not store your credit card information. Payments are processed directly by Stripe, and we don't store your car…