Hacker News with Generative AI: Students

Gemini Advanced is free for college students through finals 2026 (gemini.google)
Students get free access to our best AI model with Gemini Advanced. Prep for your exams, perfect your writing, and tackle your homework with the best of Google AI: Gemini Advanced, NotebookLM Plus, Whisk. Plus free 2TB of storage. Available in the US only. Sign up by June 30, 2025.

Generative AI, Education, Google, AI Models, Students

3 points by vyrotek 9 days ago | 0 comments

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked (cbsnews.com)
Carnegie Mellon student learns his visa was revoked with no explanation

Immigration, Education, Students

91 points by perihelions 15 days ago | 50 comments

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents (reddit.com)
Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents (npr.org)

Legal Issues, Immigration, Protests, Students

93 points by foobahify 16 days ago | 27 comments

The Average College Student Is Illiterate (persuasion.community)
Students are not what they used to be. The crisis is worse than you think.

Education, Literacy, Students

86 points by sebg 26 days ago | 11 comments

What's Happening to Students? (honest-broker.com)
A frustrated teacher recently took to social media with a desperate warning:

Education, Social Media, Students

7 points by Khaine 34 days ago | 1 comments

Columbia Expelled Student Protesters For the First Time in Over 50 Years (thenation.com)
On March 5, protesters were arrested after dozens formed a sit-in at Milstein Library to demand the reinstatement of three expelled students.

Protests, Education, Columbia University, Students

28 points by geox 47 days ago | 19 comments

What's the modern way of making front end for a small project? (ycombinator.com)
Hello, I’m a CS student and I have to make many webapps either for uni projects or for myself.

Web Development, Front-End, Software Engineering, Programming, Students

9 points by pkrzysiek 50 days ago | 14 comments

The A-level student who became an enemy of the Chinese state (bbc.com)
Just over a year ago, Chloe Cheung was sitting her A-levels. Now she's on a Chinese government list of wanted dissidents.

Politics, China, Activism, Students

11 points by zfg 67 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions? (ycombinator.com)
While I do have the support of advisor, and in general know the bigger research direction, coming up with a relevant doable+innovative research problem is still somewhat upon me and hard. I wanted to read on other researchers' perspective on how they do it, what works and what doesn't. Thanks!

Academia, Research, PhD, Students, Problem Solving

28 points by wayoverthecloud 82 days ago | 19 comments

26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with homework, study finds (npr.org)
A recent poll from the Pew Research Center shows more and more teens are turning to ChatGPT for help with their homework.

Education, Technology, Generative AI, Students

23 points by isaacfrond 96 days ago | 56 comments

UW and CS student reach truce in spat over 'HuskySwap' scheduling app (geekwire.com)
The University of Washington resolved a disagreement with a computer science student who went viral on LinkedIn for calling out the UW’s reaction to his development of an app to help students trade coveted spots in full courses.

Education, Software, Students

9 points by hilux 103 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I'm 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter (lira.study)
LIRA lets you quickly save notes, summarize, and answer questions on any webpage, undetected.

Education, Tools, Students, Web Development

14 points by delamri 157 days ago | 22 comments

IEEE President's Note: Why Students Should Stay with IEEE (ieee.org)

IEEE, Students, Membership

46 points by elashri 237 days ago | 53 comments

Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students (steveblank.com)

Palantir, Security Clearance, Students, Education, Tech

47 points by sblank 256 days ago | 50 comments

Yale Plans to Lock-Out Early Adopters from Their Homes Tonight (forbes.com)

Yale University, Security, Hacking, Students, Technology

8 points by sharpshadow 269 days ago | 1 comments

Post on Reddit unveils college student's fraud: 'I have built my life on lies' (abc7.com)