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This is a non-AI Chinese learning app I started working on before ChatGPT. Now that LLMs are near-perfect translators, this non-AI approach is clearly not the global optimum, so I …

Fixed--made it generate questions in the same language as the answer! Do you find that GPT 3.5 can write in fluent Vietnamese? Branch highlighting is on the top of our to do list, …

Hi HN — we’re John and Vish! We built WhyBot, a tool to help you deeply explore a question or topic. You ask a question, and WhyBot responds by building an ever-expanding knowledge…

Bizarre that this is the top comment on this thread right now. I agree they've done some damage, but you seem to have dismissed their justifications without any explanation. Do you…

I really like the idea of making the main input a saveable textarea that can hold multiple words rather than just one. Reminds me of Numi and Soulver, which do this for calculators…

I think you defended my point for me with the glass panes example. Price is definitely a part of the optimization formula. In fact I think most trends in architecture are much easi…

This was a really great read. There's a few comments here saying something akin to "No, design trends are totally random, some hotshots decide they want to be different and then ev…

Whether it be healthcare, housing, or education, the government always responds to rising costs by subsidizing demand rather than helping increase supply or fix incentive structure…

This is spam-tier content. Almost nothing specific to scaling data intensive applications. You could rename the article to “how to catch the squirrel in your backyard” and it’d be …

The term "10x engineer" always leads to incongruous conversation. Everyone has a different impression of what a 10x engineer is, depending on who they've met and how much they enjo…

Now that I think about it, an incredibly valuable exercise would be to give students a longwinded, vague, rambling essay and make them rewrite it to be as clear and concise as poss…

Agreed that reading with readily-available translations is the most important method of learning, but with technology we can do better than the interlinear texts this article descr…

This doesn't ring true to me; most people at the gyms I've been to don't talk to anyone. I think most people actually want the equipment, mainly the squat rack, bench press, and tr…

I think this is a great presentation. I've found that learning to write has largely a process of unlearning everything I was taught in secondary school. In school we were condition…

That actually sounds like a great way to workout while getting paid! Do they accept short/temporary/irregular stints?

This appraisal of Van Eyck's painting strikes me as odd. If my mission was to paint a room as photorealistically as possible, I would certainly notice all the differences between m…

Is this product strictly for people missing a hand? I can’t see any other market. Sure it looks and feels cooler to type with one hand, but that is not nearly enough benefit to cut…

Helion and Luminous Computing come to mind as universally interesting and unquestionably risky. There's more controversial ones I like but won't name.

I'm wary of engaging with this comment at all but... How are you so sure it was "some psycho test" rather than, say, their actual availability?