🗣️ Post 1: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

As posted by: gmays  |  🔥 Points: 142

https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/

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🗣️ Post 2: Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM

As posted by: takigon  |  🔥 Points: 76

https://github.com/shutootaki/bookwith

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Hi HN! I've been working on BookWith, an open-source e-book reader that integrates AI as your reading companion.

The problem: Traditional e-readers are passive. When you encounter something unclear, you have to context-switch to search for it. Your highlights and notes remain isolated, and you can't easily connect ideas across different books.

My solution: BookWith embeds an AI that maintains full context of what you're reading. It features:

- Context-aware AI chat: Ask questions about the current page/chapter and get instant answers

- AI podcast generation: Automatically converts book content into conversational podcasts using Google Cloud TTS

- Multi-layer memory system: Short-term (last 5 conversations), mid-term (summarized every 20), and long-term (vector search) memory that maintains continuity across reading sessions

- Smart annotations: 5-color highlighting system that AI can reference and analyze

Technical stack: Built as a fork of Flow (epub reader), with added LLM integration and vector database for semantic search. Supports multiple LLMs and languages (EN/JA/ZH).

🗣️ Post 3: How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)

As posted by: edent  |  🔥 Points: 72

https://benborgers.com/chatgpt-semester

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Every semester, I see a bit more ChatGPT being used in classes. This semester, the most obvious occurrences are in my Engineering Psychology classes. Engineering Psychology is a second major that I’m doing — it’s the study of how humans interact with technology; a bit like UX design. In one of those classes, we’re doing a group project for a real industry client. In writing the initial proposal for that project, it was clear that a majority of my groupmates were filling in their portions with writing straight from ChatGPT — still in the tell-tale bullet point form: Look at those subtly different font sizes! I told a groupmate that I would take over this section, and deleted the work....

🗣️ Post 4: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

As posted by: zyruh  |  🔥 Points: 23

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815819

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I'm curious to hear feedback from the HN community about your biggest pain points or frustrations with ChatGPT (or similar LLMs).

What aspects of the experience do you find lacking, confusing, or outright irritating? Which improvements do you think are most urgent or would make the biggest difference?

🗣️ Post 5: OpenAI in talks for share sale valuing ChatGPT maker at $500B

As posted by: ViktorRay  |  🔥 Points: 21

https://www.ft.com/content/af8bb72d-f961-4a1d-a15d-0f3fc73d3abb

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