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"All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short, is a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've been working on as a side project for about a year.

I've already received a lot of great feedback about the application among language learners. In addition to what I hope is an intuitive UI/UX, one of the unique things about ABAL is the way that pronunciations are customized to a user's native and target languages.

Systems like IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...) don't make pronunciation any easier to get right for a majority of - if not all - language learners. ABAL solves this by showing phonetic hints that are written in the user's native language script and are meant to be pronounced in the native language's voice.

The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic, as it serves to set the ambitious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity's written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!

Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject and CEFR level. I'm currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work is also going into adding support for more languages, while evaluating and optimizing for cross-language translations accuracy.

It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. Quite a bit of work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI/UX changes quickly.

I hope you'll find it useful if you're learning a new language or need to practice one you already know. If you're not learning a new language, but wish you could read classics in a language you're fluent in, stay tuned!

Marketing site: https://www.abal.ai Application site: https://read.abal.ai X for updates: @abal_ai

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Article URL: https://nautil.us/how-pebbles-form-planets-1201205/

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Hi everyone,

I built this app to let users make better decisions with the wisdom of the AI crowd. The app lets you see answers from five of the best AI companies, summarizes their answers for you, and provides a summary table. This process allows you to easily spot hallucinations in certain AI models. And it lets you make better decisions. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qu8FTyaLc9k

There is a Debater that can debate any topic. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JZzebg9gNt4

Then the app has a list of interesting questions to get you started with (think Quora). Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eJlbhXwZkTQ

There is also a social network where users can post questions and follow each other (think Twitter). Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rtTdWHrBUPA

In addition to this, it has several interesting councils (groups of AI assistants) that give you perspectives from "across the aisle". For example there is a "Politics" council that has a Democrat, Libertarian, and Republican. This way you can hear opinions from across the whole political spectrum. Or the "Parenting" council has a Permissive, Authoritative, and Authoritarian parent. This way you can see parenting advice from the whole parenting spectrum. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/waxX-M-qIVE

Please give it a try and let me know what you think. I'd greatly appreciate your honest feedback! So sorry for the Android users, but the app is currently available only on iOS.

Thanks, Alin Jula Founder of Council AI

Website: https://councilai.app

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/council-ai

YouTube: https://www.producthunt.com/@CouncilAI

X: https://x.com/councilai_app

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/council_ai/

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After evaluating lead generation tools like Apollo, Hunter, and RocketReach, I noticed a common problem: they rely on old database technologies that often contain unverified emails, yet charge premium prices — this inefficiency bothered me.

I decided to approach this differently by leveraging modern AI technologies. I spent time learning the strengths of various LLMs (Grok, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude 3.7) and combined the best aspects of each for my solution.

The technical challenges were substantial. To reach 1B+ verified contacts, I had to:

- Implement residential proxy networks using Luminati/Bright Data, with Node.js for connection management and Redis for IP rotation scheduling

- Develop captcha-bypassing systems combining Puppeteer's browser automation with 2captcha API integration and custom computer vision models using TensorFlow

- Perfect web scraping at scale with Python (Beautiful Soup, Scrapy), optimized with asyncio for concurrent execution, and Playwright for dynamic content rendering

- Build a robust backend infrastructure using Laravel PHP framework, vanilla JavaScript for lightweight frontend interactions, and PostgreSQL for storing the structured data with proper indexing

I hope you enjoy using the trial, I made it especially for you guys.

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html

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One commit at a time, we are keeping multimodal document understanding, parsing, and information extraction free under a permissive license.

If you like the idea, or if something is missing or something we can do better, give us a nudge.

https://github.com/oidlabs-com/Lexoid

Initial benchmarks: https://oidlabs-com.github.io/Lexoid/benchmark.html#benchmark-results

Work in progress ...

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/31/immigration-h1b-fear-siliconvalley/

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