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Re:Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5 on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:48PM (#49103512)
For most tasks I even prefer Sonnet 5 High, it is more than capable for medium size and complexity programming tasks.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:43AM (#48846723)
Location: Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but open to discuss.

Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, SQLite.

GitHub: https://github.com/nitotm

Résumé/CV: Upon request.

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Salary will not be a problem.

"Full-Stack Web Developer" is my closest label, I've been programming for over 20 years.

I'm on a similar situation. When you say "switch stacks" what do you have in mind? It seems your experience is pretty demanded already. Do you have a strong Github profile?
Well, not for every language, but for every language that uses that n-gram. The scoring weights the importance of an n-gram for a particular language.
Thanks. I will try to answer.

ELD works like a traditional language detector, storing n-grams and tuned scores. (So it does not use a modern neural network).

It cleans the input text and extracts words, gets n-grams/tokens, each n-gram hash is searched on a fast hashtable, which points to several score slots for x amount of languages. And we build the scores for each of the found languages.

Sounds simple, and it is, because the work is done when training the database, setting the score values.

The database looks something like {"ngram_1":{Lang_id_1:score, Lang_id_7: score, ...}}, {"ngram_2":{Lang_id_5:score}}

I hope this answers your question. I could go into more detail.

Also, if anybody finds this interesting you could "Vouch" this post, so it goes public as it is hidden since I am a new user.

Ask HN: What have you used natural language identification tools for?

I am curious about real world use cases for natural language identification.If you have used language ID tools before, what was your use case? I would like to hearing about:- How much text/data you were dealing with - What tools or libraries you used - Whether the result was good enough in production or only for preprocessing - If the performance, speed, of the tool was a problem - Any common...

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Show HN: ELDC – Natural language identification, faster than FastText and CLD2

https://github.com/nitotm/eldc

I want to introduce ELDC, an efficient language detector, written in C, designed to maximize speed and accuracy within a relatively constrained memory footprint.ELDC is the latest iteration of the ELD software I made years ago. This version is available as an executable, a library, and a Python package.This is my first C software, or anything compiled for that matter, I previously built this in...

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I was looking for something like this the other day, it can be very helpful.
Re:C++: The Documentary on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:35AM (#48413970)
Pretty good.