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Every time I talk acquaintances, friends and family members about finances I'm always shocked at how little people know about basic things like tax brackets, 401Ks, IRAs, ETFs, compounding interest, debt management and etc. So I decided to write a financial literacy/education book with a bit of humor and easily comprehensible language to distill some of these topics. I'm about 1 month into it and try to write a chapt…
Here’s what I plan to add that other tools don’t have:
- Super smooth Anki integration — saves words/sentences with full video context, native audio, screenshots, etc.
- A structured way to improve step by step.
- Real dictionaries for each language (as long as I can afford them ), not just AI translations.
What I’ve built so far:
- Word meanings in real context
- Real-time subtitle translation
- Auto detection of common collocations
- Target languages: English/Spanish/French/German/Japanese/Korean/Chinese. Native languages: English and Chinese.
If you also like learning languages through videos or podcast/audiobook, I’d love your feedback and ideas!
I'm happy where it's landing so far but also appreciate any actionable feedback to make it better (!). Under the hood, it packs a Rust Axum API, plenty of ffmpeg, and some hobo infrastructure [2] here and there.
[1] - https://nid.nogg.dev
Built it as a personal tool to quickly look up definitions and practice vocab with spaced repetition.
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deft-vocabulary-flashcards/id6...
Mixing and matching watches with different straps is something that I really enjoy doing. It's not often easy to tell ahead of time whether the combination will work.
It's a custom assembler built on top of the LLVM assembler (llvm-mc) that emits instrumentation code to catch ABI violations at runtime. Stuff like clobbering nonvolatile registers, misaligning the stack pointer, misusing the redzone, assuming volatile registers don't change across a function call, etc.
Hoping to finish up basic x86_64 support within the next few days. I can now reliably assemble and run unoptimized gcc output without hitting false positives, but I still have to iron out some false positives triggered by OpenSSL's handwritten assembly routines.
TODO items for the near future include porting the runtime support library into a kernel module so I can instrument Linux, and beginning ports other architectures (ideally something semi-obscure like POWER or RISC-V). I also need to figure out how to support dynamic linking, because the tool currently needs static linking to access its thread-local variables.
https://github.com/kenballus/llvm-project/tree/abisan/llvm/t...
I'm involved in 3 projects that are solving this problem from different angles:
Lately I’ve worked on a chat history based memory feature that can recall information from every conversation you’ve ever had with ChatGPT and Claude. It’s been particularly useful and also technically fun to implement. Speed has been very important as I do just in time summarisation and a multi stage RAG pipeline, and most LLMs have unacceptable performance. I ended up going with GPT-OSS on Groq due to its ultra low latency often completing full generations before Gemini or ChatGPT APIs return even the first token.
The ability to recall details from conversations going back years makes tasks where I want personalised plans or feedback like 10x more useful, at times I get the AI to ingest tens of thousands of tokens of context to help me better.
FreeBSD 15.0. Rather depressingly, almost everything I said two months ago is still true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419134 But I'm hoping to have it out by the first week of December.
Tracking windows on Wayland is hard because the protocol doesn't support it. I hacked together a script using Claude Code that somehow works, but I barely understand how.