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Re:Show HN: Awesome Symbian on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:52AM (#46453060)
The post was getting caught in spam-filters with the URL. So here is the URL.

Github: hstsethi/awesome-symbian

Show HN: Awesome Symbian

An Awesome List about everything related to Symbian OS. Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. Symbian is a discontinued mobile OS for ARM popular in early 2000s. It had two major UIs: S60(Nokia), and UIQ(Sony Ericsson). It supports `.jar`, `.jad`, `.sis`, `.sisx` formats. The main development environment since S60 is C++/QT, but J2ME,...

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Cambridge dictionary has crowned parasocial as word of the year for 2025. It is defined as, "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence".

I like to divide these interactions into two categories. One is using them for mental health support; the second is for a full-fledged romantic relationship...

Using them for mental health support involves sharing own or others behavior with chatbot asking to analyze another person’s behavior, chatting, etc.

A bot that would shill my products in threads like these.
Re:Show HN: Awesome J2ME on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:01AM (#45991737)
I am glad it was helpful.

Thanks for the paper as well. It explains concepts very clearly with a real-life problem statement. Added it to Awesome J2ME.

Show HN: Awesome J2ME

https://github.com/hstsethi/awesome-j2me

An awesome list about Java platform Micro edition(J2ME). Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. J2ME is a Java specification designed for old keypad phones and PDAs. MIDP, which is built upon CLDC, is used to create Midlets, which have `.jad` or `.jar` extension, and run on platforms like old keypad phones, Symbian and PDAs. MIDP is...

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For me it's: Smart Watch, AI image generators, cryptocurrencies, auto payments of bills.