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Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha... by shubb on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:34AM (#23475635)
It's a shame - we have automatic translation so articles in a language most visitors can't read are still useful to them.

Of course the submitter could fix this themself with some effort but we will lose good content if we rely on that.

Instead, it would be better if HN translated content and especially titles into the readers local language or English automatically using public APIs.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha... by ronsor on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:47AM (#23476952)
> Instead, it would be better if HN translated content and especially titles into the readers local language or English automatically using public APIs.

Err... no. Machine translations are awful at least half of the time. It's even worse for CJK languages.

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