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Show HN: MyKana, a Japanese learning app I built for my own study

https://mykana.app/
1•zerratar•1h ago
I built this for myself while trying to get serious about learning Japanese again:

https://mykana.app/

I studied a little Japanese more than 10 years ago, but only for a short time, so most of it didn't stick. Since then, I've been to Japan many times because my girlfriend is Japanese and my older brother lives there. More recently, with me and my girlfriend traveling back and forth to Japan quite a lot and both of us having family in Tokyo, I wanted a better way to rebuild my foundation and keep practicing consistently.

The app started around kana practice, but grew into something larger:

hiragana / katakana practice kanji and vocabulary study review-based learning AI chat for more natural practice some light gamification

The AI chat is free, but requires Google sign-in. That is mostly to prevent bot abuse, since it costs me money to run, and secondarily because it allows progress syncing across devices.

I'd appreciate honest feedback, especially on what would make this more genuinely useful for learning rather than just more feature-rich.

Hacking Google Random Number Generator (Part 2)

https://ivanludvig.dev/tech/google-random-v2
1•IvanLudvig•1m ago•0 comments

Shipping React UI Fast Without Making a Mess

https://www.yashkapure.com/en/blog/shipping-react-ui-fast-without-making-a-mess/
1•yashkapure•4m ago•0 comments

Why the AI Revolution Is a Question About Human Nature, Not Technology

https://medium.com/@genady_awarelife/the-ai-revolution-is-not-about-technology-its-about-what-it-...
1•genadym•4m ago•0 comments

All your agents are going async

https://zknill.io/posts/all-your-agents-are-going-async/
1•zknill•13m ago•0 comments

ChangelogHub – changelogs of the software packages in one place

https://fatihky.github.io/clhub/
1•fatihky•14m ago•0 comments

'He is beyond psychiatric help' – the traumatic origins of JG Ballard

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/illuminated-man-life-death-worlds-jg-ballard-chris...
1•bookofjoe•19m ago•1 comments

MerJS: A Zig-native web framework that ships without Node

https://merlionjs.com
2•jedisct1•19m ago•0 comments

Lawsuits, licensing, and royalties are complicating 4K video support in gadgets

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/lawsuits-licensing-and-royalties-are-complicating-4k-vide...
1•zinekeller•24m ago•0 comments

Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge battery in desert

https://electrek.co/2026/04/18/tesla-model-x-solar-charging-atacama-desert-chile-pan-american-hig...
1•asymmetric•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Applyd – a bot that applies to jobs for you

https://aiapplyd.com/
1•sneefle•27m ago•2 comments

Tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/19/nx-s1-5786635/tariff-refunds-customs-ace-portal
1•geox•28m ago•0 comments

Building Immersive Stories with Timelines, 3D, and Layered Scenes

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/04/20/interactive-storytelling-for-the-web-building-immersive-s...
1•danielskogly•31m ago•0 comments

Idle CPU power management: cpuidle

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/20/idle-cpu-power-management-cpuidle/
2•michelangelo•31m ago•0 comments

Reimagine Python Notebooks in the AI Era

https://mljar.com/blog/reimagine-python-notebook-in-ai-era/
1•pplonski86•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Overlapping Speaker Transcription Model

https://huggingface.co/Trelis/Chorus-v1
1•mcgov•34m ago•0 comments

Postgres copy-on-write branching explained

https://xata.io/blog/open-source-postgres-branching-copy-on-write
1•tee-es-gee•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bridgerton Inspired Social Network

https://the-ton.vercel.app/login
1•vss01•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Malext.io is out – Database of malicious Chrome extensions

https://malext.io
1•toborrm9•41m ago•0 comments

Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick

https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/hospitals-that-sue-you-for-getting
2•foolswisdom•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Did Claude lowered its usage limits?

5•yu3zhou4•53m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built a Chrome extension to help with daily agenda (Gmail and outlook)

1•websku•54m ago•0 comments

The Industry of the Future Is Run by People Who Hate Each Other

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-all-the-ai-leaders-hate-one-another.html
2•pseudalopex•56m ago•0 comments

Regulators monitor Anthropic's Mythos for banking risks

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4•01-_-•1h ago•0 comments

Your "AI" Pull Request was rejected and you don't know why

https://blog.codepipes.com/llms/your-pr-was-rejected.html
5•kkapelon•1h ago•1 comments

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/
3•martinald•1h ago•0 comments

SerpApi Claude Code Skill

https://github.com/serpapi/serpapi-claude-plugin
3•jamescollinssp•1h ago•0 comments

A Proposed Framework for Evaluating AI Agent Skills

https://tessl.io/blog/a-proposed-framework-for-evaluating-skills-research-eng-blog/
2•popey•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to become better at software "engineering"?

4•luplex•1h ago•4 comments

The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law

https://theconversation.com/the-victorian-sex-abuse-scandal-that-shocked-britain-and-changed-the-...
2•zeristor•1h ago•0 comments

Signal Shot: verify the Signal protocol and its Rust implementation using Lean

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-4-20-signal-shot-the-platform-is-ready/
2•u1hcw9nx•1h ago•0 comments