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SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 6:24am

Article URL: https://serenityos.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43760626

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SVG Glitch Generator

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 6:22am
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LHC 2025 First Collisions

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:56am
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FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:53am
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Ask HN: Do you have a YouTube channel that gets around > 100 comments per video

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:49am

Do you have a YouTube channel that gets around > 100 comments per video?

I'm looking to do some beta testing on a little platform I have built that does analysis on YouTube comments.

Totally free, happy for Feedback and will share the analysis on here, directly or via email.

Thanks in advance for anyone happy to spare a minute.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43760457

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Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

Hacker News - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:48am

Hey HN!

I’m Alex, and one of my favorite ways to learn languages is by reading novels. Currently I’m reading 三体 (3 body problem), but one problem I've always had is it takes ages to look up words, and add them to Anki flashcards so I can remember them. 三体 is especially brutal with so much sci-fi vocab.

That’s why I built Readly. I snap a pic of the page I’m reading, it loads the text in-app and lets me lookup words, add to Anki-style flashcards, or ask AI questions about the text, all in a single tap. It's a huge time saver.

My specific learning strategy, if anyone wants to replicate it:

1. Buy a book you genuinely want to read (if not genuinely interested, you will lose motivation). 2. Load the pages into Readly. Translate any words you don’t know and add them to flashcards. 3. Once you finish a chapter, re-read it quickly without any tools. Then move to the next chapter. 4. If you want to improve listening skills, Readly lets you listen to the text too. Personally I repeat every page several times until I fully understand it.

As a brit who only started learning Chinese in my 20s, I was able to take grad school classes fully taught in Chinese after only a few years, so reading novels is definitely a useful strategy! (Tsinghua uni, data science).

Readly also works great for reading assignments in textbooks, social media posts on 小红书 (red note), Chinese AI research papers, or any Chinese text tbh.

I know Chinese reading is a bit niche, but hopefully some other people here can enjoy it! Please let me know any feedback :)

Alex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43760452

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