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XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wNcK
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Matrix v1.15 (Score: 153+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wMdN
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“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?” (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wM9i
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Learnings from building AI agents (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKYZ
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US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wM8G
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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJeg
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Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKzk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wKzk
GitHub repo: https://github.com/twvd/snow, Originally-submitted source explaining project: smallsco/114747196289375530">smallsco/114747196289375530" rel="nofollow">https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/114747196289375530,
LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKgk
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Ambient Garden (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wAPN
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The Offline Club (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJaS
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Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJGC
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The Hollow Men of Hims (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJC8
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Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHxf
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QEMU: Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJFa
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-2000 Lines of code (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJcn
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts (Score: 184+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wMnR
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Alternative Layout System (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wM9x
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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wFCY
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I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKFe
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Introducing Gemma 3n (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wLJk
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Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6wLhN
Hey HN, we're Mariano and Anton from ISSEN (https://issen.com), a foreign language voice tutor app that adapts to your interests, goals, and needs.
Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/a78e713d46934857a2dc88aed1bb100d?...
We started this company after struggling to find great tools to practice speaking Japanese and French. Having a tutor can be awesome, but there are downsides: they can be expensive (since you pay by the hour), difficult to schedule, and have a high upfront cost (finding a tutor you like often forces you to cycle through a few that you don’t).
We wanted something that would talk with us — realistically, in full conversations — and actually help us improve. So we built it ourselves.
The app relies on a custom voice AI pipeline combining STT (speech-to-text), TTS (text-to-speech), LLMs, long term memory, interruptions, turn-taking, etc. Getting speech-to-text to work well for learners was one of the hardest parts — especially with accents, multi-lingual sentences, and noisy environments. We now combine Gemini Flash, Whisper, Scribe, and GPT-4o-transcribe to minimize errors and keep the conversation flowing.
We didn’t want to focus too much on gamification. In our experience, that leads to users performing well in the app, achieving long streaks and so on, without actually getting fluent in the language you're wanting to learn.
With ISSEN you instantly speak and immerse yourself in the language, which, while not easy, is a much more efficient way to learn.
We combine this with a word bank and SRS flashcards for new words learned in the AI voice chats, which allows very rapid improvement in both vocabulary and speaking skills. We also create custom curriculums for each student based on goals, interests, and preferences, and fully customizable settings like speed, turn taking, formality, etc.
App: https://issen.com (works on web, iOS, Android)
Pricing: 20 min free trial, $20–29/month (depending on duration and specific geography)
We’d love your feedback — on the tech, the UX, or what you’d wish from a tool like this. Thanks!
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wLeM
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The Fairphone (Gen. 6) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wGkM
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The first non-opoid painkiller (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKAe
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Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHRj
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America’s incarceration rate is in decline (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHG8
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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJ9x
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LM Studio is now an MCP Host (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHJi
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Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wwRb
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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wJas
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