frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

https://menerdu.vercel.app/
9•lil_csom•7h ago
I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.

Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the learning process.

So I started prompting GPT. I’d write my message with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn’t know, and it would return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the prompt each time became tedious.

So I built a wrapper around it.

Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of areas or words to review).

This app is for language learners who want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or breaking their flow by switching to a translator.

I hope you find it useful!

Comments

lil_csom•7h ago
Also, yes the TTS doesn't work yet - I decided to share the MVP first before adding my Google billing account :P
Aro_oj•3h ago
First of all, 10 points for the dedication and perseverance! The website looks super professional and promising. What other languages can it help with? I am planning to learn Arabic. Also, are there options to choose between different dialects of a language?
lil_csom•1h ago
Hey! It should work with all the languages as it auto-detect the target and the source language - however, it might need to be tuned the bit. Eg. if you write in arabic but use English wildcards, it should work okay! About the dialects actually I haven't thought of! I think you can provide it as context, however it's probably limited to what GPT knows as I don't integrate with any official trasnlators as of now :) Interesting use-case!
Alex-Programs•51m ago
This is really cool!

I've done a lot of research into LLM translation for my product[0], and I'm currently working on a deep translation service that provides reliably human-level translations.

I don't know what model you're using, but GPT-4.1 is probably the best for your use case - it's in the top few % for nearly every language, and has a low standard deviation, while also being relatively low latency and low cost.

[0] https://nuenki.app

2-Adic Logarithms and Fast Exponentiation

https://kevinventullo.com/2020/12/21/2-adic-logarithms-and-fast-exponentiation/
1•somezero•2m ago•0 comments

TierListMaker – Create epic tier list

https://tierlistmaker.org
1•Airyisland•2m ago•1 comments

Parker Solar probe captures closest-ever images of the Sun

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/07/13/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun-photos/84572770007/
1•golfer•6m ago•0 comments

Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-ceo-generative-ai-corporate-workforce/
3•djcollier•6m ago•0 comments

The US is having its worst year for measles in more than three decades

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-worst-year-measles-decades.html
3•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Enchanting, but Not Magical: A Statement on the Tokenization of Securities

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/peirce-statement-tokenized-securities-070925
1•DocFeind•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-Healing-CI: Use Claude to automatically open a PR when CI fails

https://github.com/remorses/self-healing-ci
1•xmorse•9m ago•0 comments

America is finally moving past its post-9/11 security theater

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/419601/homeland-security-airport-travel-terrorism-shoes-9-11
2•lr0•9m ago•1 comments

The internet hates Botox and filler but only when it looks bad

https://www.vox.com/culture/419416/botox-lip-filler-rhinoplasty-love-island-usa-kris-jenner
1•lr0•9m ago•1 comments

RISC-V Solidifies Presence in China as Global Momentum Builds

https://www.eetimes.com/risc-v-solidifies-presence-in-china-as-global-momentum-builds/
2•fork-bomber•9m ago•0 comments

How to use Git worktree effectively with Python projects

https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/how-to-use-git-worktree-effectively-with-python-projects/
1•andreagrandi•10m ago•0 comments

Halide: A Language for Fast, Portable Computation on Images and Tensors [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ir_nEfKQ7A
2•hundredwatt•11m ago•0 comments

An Attempt at Defining Consciousness

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aO0cbXpgUWp9f7UjOpCjgl8GWzeiMJyrxcre8aaQN9w/edit?usp=drivesdk
2•Trenthug•13m ago•0 comments

A high-performance H2O2-based fuel cell for air-free applications (2022)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775322010916
3•blacksqr•15m ago•0 comments

Happy 20th Birthday, Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/
5•davepeck•22m ago•0 comments

Flox: A virtual environment and package manager all in one

https://github.com/flox/flox
2•saikatsg•25m ago•0 comments

Naming Software Teams

https://staysaasy.com/management/2025/07/06/team-names.html
2•kiyanwang•25m ago•0 comments

Apple, Masimo spar over Apple Watch import ban at US appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/apple-masimo-spar-over-apple-watch-import-ban-us-appeals-court-2025-07-07/
2•CharlesW•27m ago•0 comments

Princeton study maps 200k years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250713032519.htm
2•Amezarak•27m ago•0 comments

How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-o3-and-grok-4-accidentally-vindicated
3•NotInOurNames•29m ago•0 comments

Learning to never give up by following you're passion

https://thelabyrinthoftimesedge.com
2•ATiredGoat•31m ago•1 comments

Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
2•mmoogle•34m ago•0 comments

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance
23•alexslobodnik•35m ago•7 comments

Httplite: HTTP parser single-header library written in 50 lines of C

https://github.com/xyurt/httplite
3•thunderbong•37m ago•0 comments

'Europe Must Ban American Big Tech and Create a European Silicon Valley'

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/magazine/overview/europe-must-ban-american-big-tech-and-create-a-european-silicon-valley
5•taubek•39m ago•1 comments

LLMs for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction: A Comprehensive Comparison

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06890
2•stacktrust•39m ago•0 comments

Warfront Nations – Free Web Based Strategy Game

https://warfront-nations.com/
2•overDos3•40m ago•0 comments

Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/hungary/hungary-pannonhalma-archabbey-beetle-infestation-rcna218539
15•rntn•42m ago•4 comments

Chapeaugraphy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeaugraphy
5•arittr•44m ago•0 comments

Exploiting All Google KernelCTF Instances and Debian 12 with a 0-Day for $82k

https://syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-family-drama/
2•todsacerdoti•44m ago•0 comments