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Show HN: Fun, Open-source Japanese learning Platform inspired by Monkeytype
by yourladybug | 2025-11-14 05:36:23+00:00
As a long time Japanese learner, I've always wanted there to be a simple, free online trainer for learning and grinding Japanese kanji and vocabulary - like Monkeytype in the typing community (fun fact: we actually have 2 Monkeytype devs on our team now!).

I'm doing this because I grew tired of all the subscriptions and paywalls, which are unfortunately very common in the Japanese learning apps market. That's why I want to make the most fun, user-friendly and customizable platform for learning Japanese currently available, and the first one that is (and will be, forever) completely free, ad-free and open-source - driven not by profit, but made by the community, for the community. We already managed to get around 600 stars on GitHub and about 7k monthly users for the app. That being said, I recognize that the app is still in its very early alpha stages and is, objectively speaking, behind paid Japanese learning solutions (at least for now) - which is why I want to change that and make it the first entirely free and open-source platform for learning Japanese to provide a real, high-quality alternative to all the current paid Japanese learning resources, which I believe we can achieve with the open-source community's help. Why am I doing this? Because weebs deserve to have a free, open-source learning platform too (I'm one of them, don't judge...)

どうもありがとうございます!
by oconnor663 | 2025-11-14 05:36:43+00:00
Take a look at the examples in this post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2019/07/we-need-a-...

Large C++ codebases have the same problems that large codebases have in any language: too many abstractions, inconsistent ways of doing things, layers of legacy. It comes with the job. The difference is that in C/C++, hard-to-read code also means hard-to-guess pointer lifetimes.
by Groxx | 2025-11-14 05:37:21+00:00
I really think all permissions systems need what we had back in xposed/appops days:

Permissions should ~always be "accept (with optional filters)", "deny", and "lie". If the game wants contacts access and won't take no for an answer, I should be able to feed it a lie: empty and/or fake and/or sandboxed data. It's my phone and my data, not the app's.

We had it over a decade ago, xposed supported filtered and fake data for many permissions. It's strictly user-hostile that Android itself doesn't have this capability.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-11-14 05:37:40+00:00
Valve have been working with Linaro to develop FOSS drivers for the Adreno 750. This is necessary, given how heavily Valve leans on having integrations with Mesa whereas Qualcomm's drivers are designed for an Android environment.

I don't see why they wouldn't unlock the bootloader, it wouldn't be the first Qualcomm-based product to allow it and in press interviews they have pressed, quite hard, that the Frame is still a PC.
by allenleee | 2025-11-14 05:39:58+00:00
I mean both, and in AI today, they’re deeply intertwined. The “capital game” isn’t just about money—it’s about access to compute, talent, and time. Whoever has the resources can experiment, iterate, and potentially uncover the next big architecture. That financial power naturally translates into influence—control over the market, narrative, and ecosystem. In practice, the investment game and the market ruler’s game often become the same thing.
by ccortes | 2025-11-14 05:41:14+00:00
> then you're doing the opposite of what the author proposes

No, it’s exactly what the author is writing about. Just check his example, it’s pretty clear what he means by “thinking in math”

> Scientific conensus in math is Occam's Razor, or the principle of parsimony. In algebra, topology, logic and many other domains, this means that rather than having many computational steps (or a "simple mental model") to arrive to an answer, you introduce a concept that captures a class of problems and use that.

I don’t even know what you mean by this.
by Brybry | 2025-11-14 05:41:31+00:00
I think requiring notification would be better than automatically pausing (or maybe let people choose?)

My elderly parents have a cheap voip landline that they never use but keep for peace of mind. It'd be unideal if that got automatically "paused" and then it didn't work the one time they tried to use it to call 911.

Sure, the scenario would mean their cell phones are not working, or they're suffering from some cognitive issue, so it's unlikely -- but still plausible.
by 0manrho | 2025-11-14 05:42:22+00:00
> I think it's been a commonly held opinion in security circles for at least 15+ years that the Robustness principle is generally counterproductive to security

Well yes, that's because people have been misapplying and misunderstanding it. The original idea was predicated on the concept of "assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect"

But then the Fail Fast, Fail Often stupidity started spreading like wildfire and companies realized that the consequence for data breaches or other security failures was an acceptable cost of doing business (even if not always true) vs the cost of actually paying devs and sec teams to implement things properly and people kinda lost the plot on it. They just focused on the "be liberal in what you accept" part, went "Wow! That makes thing easy" and maybe only checked for the most common potential abuses/failure/exploit modes, if they bothered at all and only patched things retroactively as issues and exploits popped up in the wild.

Doing it correctly, like building anything robust and/or secure, is a non-trivial task.
by protocolture | 2025-11-14 05:42:41+00:00
Its been years since I touched transcription professionally, but my memory is that they started off as a mechanical turk operation.

Lawyers usually would purchase transcription devices, and then either they would have a pool of transcribers (i remember installing foot pedals for forward/back playback operation) or pay a subscription to the manufacturer for mysterious likely offshore people to transcribe for them.

People have a hard time letting go of revenue, but I am betting most of the same people are still in business and want to pied piper consumers of transcription services to the same business model that now costs them pennies instead of wages.
Show HN: Conversational BI Agent for Enterprise Analytics
by mardel | 2025-11-14 05:43:01+00:00
We opened an early version of our Conversational BI Agent to the public with a free tier. Data teams spend enormous time preparing data for stakeholders, yet business users only see static reports or dashboards - and often end up with even more questions. Our agent lets them explore and talk to that data directly, uncover insights, and iterate before going back to analysts. It’s also great for teams that don’t yet have a data team but want to get value from their growing data right away. You can try it using sample dataset (Jaffle Shop) before connecting your own.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-11-14 05:43:08+00:00
They are going to buy off the shelf from whoever bribes them the most.

It's not just that he's a drunk. It's the open corruption, because they are even too stupid to hide it.

Not a single administration in the West is as corrupt as the current day US.

And that's why they are changing the 100s of billion dollar procurement for the US military.
by badestrand | 2025-11-14 05:43:19+00:00
I have a website with hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors running on a single Hetzner machine since >10 years (switched machines inside Hetzner a few times though).

My outage averages around 20 minutes per year, so an uptime of around 99.996%.

I have no idea where you see those "huge outages" coming from.
by josefx | 2025-11-14 05:43:48+00:00
I haven't looked at Googles style for c++ in a long time, but from what I remember it was actively hostile to best practices. Actively hostile to any improvement introduced by the language and actively hostile to the wider ecosystem of c++. Also Rob Pike was involved somehow at the time and that guy went around claiming that his C inspired GCed language would be the perfect replacement for C++ everywhere after the c++ standard simplified some common patterns for library authors because he was actively hostile towards reusable code.

I am not sure I even want to know what the average Google C++ codebase looks like.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-11-14 05:43:59+00:00
This is only remotely true for embedded systems, where you ship a fully integrated device, with all its associated peripherals as a turn-key system that does not have to interoperate with anything else.

If you’re in the business of shipping software that needs to run alongside other people’s software on the same machine, it’s a disaster.

Linux userspace backwards compatibility is extremely poor, the “solutions” to this issue (Flatpak, Snap et al) generally create more management problems than they solve. Desktop Linux is already an absolute monster to manage.

Try securely deploying hardware-backed PKI certificates for 802.1x to a fleet of Linux workstations. Takes a couple of minutes on Windows and macOS, but it’s a massive engineering effort on Linux.
by TheDong | 2025-11-14 05:45:30+00:00
I am not religious, but our legal system does treat the human brain, and products therof, as unique.

Remember the monkey selfie thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

It was ruled that our Copyright Law does require that a Human create the work, and that only a Human can hold copyright. The monkey was not given copyright over the image it took.

Monkeys obviously can be creative. However, our law has decided that human creativity is protected by copyright, and human creativity is special within the law. I don't see any contradictions or arguments about sapience that are relevant here.
by bestthrowaway | 2025-11-14 05:45:40+00:00
I've been playing around with T2I/I2V generation to make some NSFW stuff of video-game characters using ComfyUI.

It's pretty easy to get something decent. It's really hard to get something good. I share my creations with some close friends and some are like "that's hot!" but are too fixated on breasts to realize that the lighting or shadow is off. Other friends do call out the bad lighting.

You may be like "it's just porn, why care about consistent lighting?" and the answer for me is that I'm doing all this to learn how everything works. How to fine tune weights, prompts, using IP Adapter, etc. Once I have a firm understanding of this stuff, then I will probably be able to make stuff that's actually useful to society. Unlike that coke commercial.
by TheDong | 2025-11-14 05:47:22+00:00
> The issue becomes there's little to no way to tell the difference between the two.

If you and I write the exact same sentence, but we can prove that we did not know each other or have inspiration from each other, we both get unique copyright over the same sentence.

It has never been possible to tell the copyright status of a work without knowing who made it and what they knew when they made it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-14 05:47:58+00:00
The first could e-7a aren't even slated to have particularly good radars. The US kept trying to do whatever it takes to get the price down & it keeps being hideously expensive anyways, with who knows what capabilities left on the cutting room floor.

There was a request for information that went out in April, asking, hey, uh, if we do want to make this an actually good awacs, what should we do with the platform? https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/air-force-eyes-advanced-...

Seems incredibly silly to me that such an incredibly crucial capability is being so sorely neglected. Having superior signals has loon been a key US advantage, that's core to enabling so many other capabilities to be used well. Theres what feels like absurd fantasy going around saying we can skip airborne platforms & just use space for all awacs needs. And who knows maybe, but it feels like a lot of ridiculous wish casting, that's leaving us with horrendous woefully inadequate eyes, ears, & links today. We need a real e-7 plan, one with a really good sensors not the decades old tech that the US's E-7A defined.
by precommunicator | 2025-11-14 05:48:50+00:00
Sometimes while traveling I just watch movies on my laptop, I don't even bother to connect to Wi-Fi as there is simply no need. I wonder how Windows 11 would even work without internet, and probably it's not a bad assumption that it will refuse after a while.

Anyway, just wiped W10 out of this laptop and installed KDE (underlying distro doesn't matter that much), it works amazing.
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-14 05:48:59+00:00
GPUs depreciate very very fast, unlike compute/network. Nvidia is coming up with newer, significantly better products very fast. These should be depreciated over 2 - 3 years, but they are being depreciated over 6 years. Michael Burry is shorting based on this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7hIcgCz1vpQ
by mcmoor | 2025-11-14 05:49:36+00:00
I've seen other comment for the supposed unsavory thing but I've never heard about it, like, at all. Only know it as the mathematical operator. Also being used as card name for a children card game that's a bit infamously censor heavy so I think it's safe enough https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla
by jdprgm | 2025-11-14 05:50:45+00:00
I had basically this exact idea too a few months ago and at the time already found a few implementations attempting it. https://robomonkey.io/ being one example I found so didn't pursue it further.

Also it turns out llm's are already very good at just generating Violentmonkey scripts for me with minimal prompting. They also are great for quickly generating full blown minimal extensions with something like WXT when you run into userscript limitations. These are kind of the perfect projects for coding with llm's given the relatively small context of even a modest extension and certainly a userscript.

I am a bit surprised YC would fund this as I think building a large business on the idea will be extremely difficult.

One angle I was/am considering that I think could be interesting would be truly private and personal recommendation systems using LLM's that build up personal context on your likes/dislikes and that you fully control and could own and steer. Ideally local inference and basically an algo that has zero outside business interests.
by raincole | 2025-11-14 05:52:11+00:00
> AI art is apparently so bad that artists are willing to hand them the keys to their castle.

Because - believe or not - a lot of artists benefit from Disney and other giants. By directly getting hired by them, building social media followers with fanart of their IP, taking questionable commissions of their characters, etc.

Is this a fair and healthy relationship? Perhaps not. But it's indefinitely better than what "AI artists" brought to human artists.

Of course Disney is not artists' friend and we all know what will happen: artists will end up being squeezed from the both sides, AI and big IP holders (who deploy their own AIs while suing open weights) anyway.
by bawolff | 2025-11-14 05:52:47+00:00
That doesn't really make sense . Just because you purchased a book, does not mean the copyright goes away (for new works based on the book. For the physical book you bought, the doctrinevof first sale gives you some rights but only in that specific physical copy ). If openAI pirated material, that would be a separate issue from if the output of the LLM is infringing.
by wpm | 2025-11-14 05:53:29+00:00
That’s how privately owned companies with BDFL founders still running them operate.

No shareholders. No dopey stock market magazine articles. No quarterly “did you make the line go up? why not?” reports. You can execute on a 10 or 20 or 50 year vision when youre beholden to only your customers, your staff, and yourself and not a pack of rabid wolves.
by sholain | 2025-11-14 05:54:43+00:00
Nobody has access to 'frontier quality models' except Open AI, Anthropic, Google, maybe Grok, maybe Meta etc. aka nobody in China quite yet. And - there are 'layers' of Engineering beyond just model that make quite a big difference. For certain tasks, GPT5 might be beyond all others, same for Claude + Claude.

That said, the fact that they're doing this while knowing that Anthropic could be monitoring implies a degree of either real or arbitrary irreverence: either they were lazy or dumb (unlikely), or it was some ad hoc situation wherein they really just did not care. Some sub-sub-sub team at some entity just 'started doing stuff' without a whole lot of thought.

'State Backed Entities' are very numerous, it's not unreasonable that some of them, somewhere are prompting a few things that are sketchy.

I'm sure there's a lot of this going on everywhere - and this is the one Anthropic chose to highlight for whatever reasons, which could be complicated.
by stanfordkid | 2025-11-14 05:55:29+00:00
I think there is a lot of merit to this approach. Ultimately we live in a world guided by physics and macro-level perception driven by our senses and our own motor control. Of course newtonian physics is not the end all be all -- cell biology or quantum mechanics works on a very different level... but what is important here is that we know that human beings understand these things and make novel discoveries on these things using a thinking apparatus that was pre-trained on large scale newtonian physics. I've always found that even in advanced mathematics my mind always uses low level geometric analogies. So the "embeddings" or priors that can be obtained are probably much better than what can be done through text correlation as with LLMs. It's very different to learn the word bounce through observation of a physical model of a ball bouncing vs. seeing what other words it co-occurs with.
by sigmaprimus | 2025-11-14 05:55:49+00:00
Sounds like a pretty neat program, Have you played around with Voice Access The application included with Windows? I'm using it right now to type this message. Unfortunately I can't use programs that have a push to talk as I am paralyzed from the neck down... But believe me when I say It's nice to see someone working on text to speech And that any improvement or new application can only make mine and people like me lives better. I haven't really done much with the open AI offerings but I do use Gemini CLI and it is exhausting To the point where my throat gets dry and I have to drink some water if I want to Keep working** Edit** drinking water involves me calling a care aid to assist me!
by FloatArtifact | 2025-11-14 05:57:04+00:00
I wonder what the overhead is to stream from the headset or host PC to another monitor. VR is great but comes with a barrier of overcoming social isolation. Having the VR session on a screen would be a way to keep it social. Especially multiple VR slit screen. We want to engage the rest of people in the room beyond the players.

Watching various interviews, clearly it can be on another monitor.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-14 05:57:41+00:00
There is a world of difference between a corporation ingesting original works for the purposes of automatically, at scale generating derivative works for profit and a community of unpaid human volunteers working for a non-profit maintaining a public benefit encyplopedia.

Saying that merely denying the motion to dismiss claims that ChatGPT outputs infringed the rights of authors such as George R.R. Martin and David Baldacci is a “fundamental assault” on the idea-expression distinction as applied to works of fiction, and especially that it puts Wikipedia in crosshairs is beyond a stretch.
by melevittfl | 2025-11-14 05:57:44+00:00
No, it’s more fundamental than fair use. Fair use is a defence to a copyright infringement. It’s an argument that, yes, I did violate the copyright of the creator, but my violation should be allowed.

The issue here is, what are creators allowed to own and control. It’s about the fundamental question of what copyright gives the creators control over.

Does creating a picture mean you own the right to its description? And you have the right to prevent anyone else from describing your picture?
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-14 05:58:45+00:00
That's incorrect. I'll choose a couple of points to correct.

For the "elective" surgery, it's false to state that they are covered by private healthcare. There was also a push to move away from the term "elective" to something like "non-critical" if memory serves. Simply because a knee or hip replacement, as an example, isn't really something you can choose to do or not do when you're unable to walk. You can wait for a few months perhaps but since it affects your quality of life, including your ability to earn an income, then it's not a choice.

For the 1% claim, that's unlikely considering all the "operating blitzes" that had to be done in Victoria to decrease the huge list(the numbers were reported by the media if you're interested).

The pandemic lockdowns wasn't "several" years ago and the effects were felt long after, definitely not a "short period". You're forgetting to mention the ambulances writing on their vehicles where they're coming from and how long were their shifts just last year. Ramping is also still a problem but I am reading less about it in Victoria since the beginning of this year. Again not sure if it is better or just less reporting on it.

I'll grant you that some people don't get to experience this side of the system and some are lucky that they don't need it at all. Hopefully the more people talk about their negative experiences, as opposed to being surprised, the more accountability and improvements can be introduced. It can be a very good system if it was better maintained.

I'll refrain from commenting any further on this topic and thank you for your contribution.
by bawolff | 2025-11-14 05:58:47+00:00
What are you basing that on?

Fair use in usa is based on 4 factors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors

I think LLM summarizing a work would largely meet the traditional test.

Im also not sure why llm summarizing the work wouldnt be in the interest of the work. It seems like it would to me to the same extent a wikipedia summary would be.
Show HN: SpeedyShare – Cross-platform file sharing with no accounts or tracking
by benjohnson8 | 2025-11-14 06:01:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I built SpeedyShare because cross-platform file sharing is still unnecessarily complicated, whether it's Android to Mac, iPhone to Windows, or any other combination. Most solutions have limitations - AirDrop only works within Apple's ecosystem, WeTransfer requires accounts for larger files, and many tools need app installations on both ends. So I made SpeedyShare to try and make it simple:

- Upload at SpeedyShare.app - Share via QR code or 6-digit code - Works on any device with a browser (desktop or mobile) - No accounts, no tracking (anonymous analytics only) - Files auto-delete after 30 minutes

I'm currently getting ~100 weekly users but growth has plateaued. I'd love honest feedback: - Does this solve a real problem for you, or is the friction with existing tools not painful enough? - What would make you choose this over AirDrop, Pairdrop, or email?

- Any UX or privacy concerns I'm missing?

Happy to discuss the technical implementation or answer questions.
by willvarfar | 2025-11-14 06:02:24+00:00
I often crunch 'biggish data' on a single node using duckdb (because I love using the modern style of painless and efficient SQL engines).

I don't use delta or iceberg (because I haven't needed to; I'm describing what I do, not what you can do :)), but rather just iterate over the underlying parquet files using filename listing or wildcarding. I often run queries on BigQuery and suck down the results to a bunch of ~1GB local parquet files - way bigger than RAM - that I can then mine in duckdb using wildcarding. Works great!

I'm in a world where I get into the weeds of 'this kind of aggregation works much faster on Bigquery than duckdb, or vice versa, so I'll split my job into this part of sql running on Bigquery then feeding into this part running in duckdb'. It's the fun end of data engineering.