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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:08AM (#49693961)
How do you generate stories that match the respective level? I tried generating stories in Chinese (which I would say has a large learner base as well) and it never really worked except for something like A1/A2. Also, recognizing which level a story is did not work for me.

Edit: And a second question: do you support exporting the studies vocabulary as Anki or csv/…?

Just tried it with an unsupported language and it still worked I set it to Chinese and inputted the audio. Still got correct results.
Looks great and I thinks it’s a nice way to review vocab I learned some years ago now that I will be in Japan for vacation. Thanks!

However, it would be great if it was easier to select multiple vocabulary sets at once. Right now, I have to minimize many sets to get to let’s say set 20 and then select a maybe 20 to 25. That’s a lot of clicking here I would say. Maybe include a button that’s like select all sets of one level.

A second thing, I haven’t found is furigana or some pronunciation hint when doing the vocabulary test exercises. I know the meaning of the most of the words but it would be great to see also the pronunciation (maybe after clicking the right answer? Or as a tool tip). Or include a practicing mode for default word -> hiragana or something like that.

Otherwise, looks great I love the default font.

Re:Show HN: Vectorless RAG on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:57AM (#45062490)
Sounds a bit like generative retrieval (e.g. this Google paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06991)
Re:Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:41AM (#38718269)
Maybe you could use: https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat/tree/main or https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

Both are tools to convert pdfs into Latex or Markup with latex formulas. Maybe that helps

Re:Mamba outperforms transformers "everywhere we tried" on Monday December 11, 2023 @07:04PM (#38607266)