中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron • Hacker News Board

Re: 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron

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Post by comboy » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

fc417fc802 wrote: post #40

comboy wrote: post #38

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Only about 5K explanations now I'm still trying to polish the pipeline before covering more. Due to all these verification and associated regenerations the cost is quite high. It's not opon source but it is completely free. Open sourcing is on the table but currently it would be additional work and distraction. Just licenses seem like a headache, from a quick poke even when ok for use on non-commercial data redistrib…

> even when ok for use on non-commercial data redistributing may not be ok. What do you mean by that? Is this relating to the LLMs or the datasets used as inputs or something else?

Mostly datasets but who knows if LLMs stuff also if I'm creating a datasets with them[0]. Long story short it's a potential headache, don't want that headache for now. Plus basically two options after open sourcing: people are not using it (time and effort wasted) or people are using it and then it's a chore. But still on the table. But I'm currently not close to the table.

0. https://claude.ai/share/23d27617-7608-4c58-93b9-b9613bc29318

Re: 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron

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Post by itsthecourier » Sun, Apr 19, 2026, 4:24 AM UTC

59percentmore wrote: post #22

itsthecourier wrote: post #17

I'm trying something like Duolingo mixed with Dark souls https://dondeng.com WIP (need more work in multi-hanzi words), but won't stay in the same 5 words for more than a day. it has been working well for me the most interesting thing was GPT helped with the sentences and simplified words meaning and bing translate provided the audios the goal is get the ~2000 words you need to be proficient in 1 year, 5 words a day…

>Empty landing page with a "Sign in with Google" button >Can't find anyone else talking about it online, no screenshots of the gameplay, nothing That's gonna be a no from me, dawg. It sounds like a cool idea, but sites have to get better about asking you to hand over your credentials without even telling you what exactly your getting for them.

empty? there's one promise: Learn Mandarin in one year. One lesson a day, 365 days.

that's exactly what it does. free. no ads.

yeah, google it. nobody in there, you won't enter, well you're not a maverick in curve of adoption. that's fine.

hand over your credentials? what's credentials? a Google oauth login?

uh?

Re: 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron

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Post by 59percentmore » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

itsthecourier wrote: post #42

59percentmore wrote: post #22

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>Empty landing page with a "Sign in with Google" button >Can't find anyone else talking about it online, no screenshots of the gameplay, nothing That's gonna be a no from me, dawg. It sounds like a cool idea, but sites have to get better about asking you to hand over your credentials without even telling you what exactly your getting for them.

empty? there's one promise: Learn Mandarin in one year. One lesson a day, 365 days. that's exactly what it does. free. no ads. yeah, google it. nobody in there, you won't enter, well you're not a maverick in curve of adoption. that's fine. hand over your credentials? what's credentials? a Google oauth login? uh?

Post screenshots of the web app.