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Show HN: Vocab extractor for language learners using Stanza and frequency ranks

Posted by crivlaldo on Sunday March 29, 2026 @05:09PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/vladvlasov256/vocab-nlp

I'm building a Telegram bot to practice Dutch. GPT-4o-mini kept picking vocabulary words I already knew, so I built a classical NLP pipeline to do it instead.It takes a short text + learner level (A0–B1) and returns the best words to study, using Stanza for parsing and corpus frequency ranks (SUBTLEX-NL, srLex, SUBTLEX-US) for scoring. Wins at A1/A2, loses at A0 where the LLM picks more obvious...

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Re:Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:25PM (#45245781)
I made a course project on Irrlicht back in 2008. It was a shooter with a Quake map, medkits, and ammo. I don’t even remember who you were supposed to shoot at.

The point of the project was to show what a graphics engine is, and why I could get in just a few evenings what used to take man-months or even years only a few years earlier.

I got the highest grade.

Show HN: FlowMolio – Connect API to Figma mockups for live content previews

Posted by crivlaldo on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:30PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.flowmol.io/

At work, we build white-label mobile apps connected to a headless CMS. Most CMSs can show website data in an iFrame, but that's not an option for mobile app previews. We solved this by exporting Figma mockups as React components. It works, but requires significant effort to embed into the CMS for each project.As an experiment, I built a no-code tool that creates live previews from Figma mockups...

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Re:Self-Hosting like it's 2025 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @04:04PM (#43550786)
This article motivated me to upgrade my hosting approach.

I've been running a DigitalOcean VPS for years hosting my personal projects. These include a static website, n8n workflows, and Umami analytics. I used manual Docker container management, Nginx, and manual Let's Encrypt certificate renewals. I was too lazy even to set up certbot.

I've migrated to a Portainer + Caddy setup. Now I have a UI for container management and automatic SSL certificate handling. It took about two hours.

Thanks for bringing me to 2025!

Re:Apple banned RSA SecurID certificate on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:34AM (#28286979)
Since today RSA SecurID 4.2.1 has been failing on Big Sur and possibly on other versions.

The app shows a general error but a message in the console says:

SecurID "Trust evaluate failure: [ca1 BlackListedLeaf]"

Regarding to the docs BlackListedLeaf tells that a certificate was blacklisted.

RSA SecurID is a mechanism developed by RSA for performing two-factor authentication for a user to a network resource. RSA Security LLC provides their technologies to 1 billion of consumers.

Re:Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:53AM (#18487235)
Is it Alexa only feature? When it will be available? Should we expect this feature in Polly? Is Amazon going to provide other styles? I'm curious.