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Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

sebastiennight wrote: post #46

This is amazing. I was planning to build exactly this for movie subtitles yesterday! I'm unsure however what you mean by > No Ads · No Social · Zero Privacy Trace and > Web data is used only for real-time AI parsing, transmitted via SSL encryption, and the server never stores any original content. Because the APIs for commercial LLMs, if you're not hosting the models yourself, definitely grab and store everything.

Thanks for pointing this out. You're absolutely right that 'Zero Privacy Trace' was a bit too absolute.

I’ve just updated the website to be more precise: we use enterprise-grade APIs where they said data is not used for training by default, and we don't log any original content on our own servers.

We also only send the specific text snippets needed for processing to minimize exposure. I really appreciate the feedback, it helps make the project better!

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by skeledrew »

Tor3 wrote: post #41
skeledrew wrote: post #29

Interesting. I'd love to get something like this into things I use frequently. Primary issue for me is, though I often browse HN for example, I only do so using an app. Generally I rarely use the browser for anything beyond research and linked articles.

After a certain age many people, and I'm definitely one of them, stop using phones for anything serious. Too small screen, unreable fonts, or alternatively zoomed-out fonts make pages unreadable anyway. So I'm basically back to using phones for, well, calls.. and a tablet or, if more than just casual, a real PC with a huge monitor if I want to actually spend some time on the net. In short - I'm definitely now in the…

I'm going in the other direction. I find myself increasingly wanting to do more things with my phone, since it's always with me everywhere, and am currently somewhat actively looking into what a truly mobile-friendly UX would look like, like for example development.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by Sudachidev »

marak830 wrote: post #38
terhechte wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you perchance have this on Github? I like the idea but would love it for another language, so would be interested in your add-on.

I don't, but I can. I've just whipped one together and am currently testing it out, I won't have time tonight but check back tomorrow and I should have it up by then. (I'll post a reply to my own comment here)

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Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

kaishin wrote: post #51

Nice concept but the design could use some love as it looks a bit on the vibe coding slop side of things.

Fair point, the UI was partly AI-assisted, and the design is not our strongest area at the moment but something we are actively improving. Appreciate the feedback.
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