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Show HN: Learn to Read with SRS++

https://letterspractice.com/showHN
3•NiloCK•1h ago
Hey everyone. The short story here is that I've made an early literacy app that you are encouraged to try with your pre-literate or only-sorta-literate kids. It's intended to be minimalist, friendly, and efficient. Its preferred-usage pattern is parent-child co-use, and my hope is that it resonates values-wise with parents who are generally screen-time averse (I am such a parent).

The main landing page is https://letterspractice.com. The submission link is an annotated view of a live study session, showing some of how the engine surfaces content, and how user-interactions feed back into the engine.

The slightly longer story is that (like many around here) I've had a long interest in Anki and SRS generally, and been frustrated at the gap between its effectiveness (high) and its success with respect to penetration into the mainstream (low).

So: many years ago I started playing with a web based framework ( https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder ) for SRS based apps with a broader interaction model than front/back and self-grading. Seeking to apply the spacing paradigm to more interactive content types - skills rather than straight knowledge. Here is a brief demo of midi based ear training courseware I had made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tvHMvF8Mo. I could write a lot about the framework, but the brief version of the ++ in SRS++ is pluggable pedagogy: applying Elo skill ladders, knowledge graphs, or other more custom structured discovery and evaluation to collections of content supported by an SRS core.

Some time later, I had a kid. I began using my own framework at a point to teach letter-sound correspondences, and word discrimination, and eventually spelling. It worked extremely well, with usage capped at n minute sessions whenever my kid was n years old.

Later still, I learned that premium edtech in the early literacy category sells at $500/mo. I'm sure the software is good, but also that it's out of reach for most families.

Knowing the efficacy (and compute efficiency!) of my own hodge-podge solution, I decided to smooth its edges, improve the decor, and make a broadly accessible product out of it (free month, $20 lifetime usage fee, good fallback to static-site for when I'm hit by bus).

So here we are!

(Taking all suggestions - entirely new at the B2C thing.)

The economy's K-shaped dynamic could be changing

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/k-shaped-economy-wage-growth
1•nabbed•1m ago•0 comments

Sunshine Atlas – An interactive map of 3,833 places you can fly to, by weather

https://sunshineatlas.com/
1•Flightmussy•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Silo Terminal – a dark terminal profile inspired by Silo

https://github.com/onehorizonai/silo-terminal
1•gusnewman•3m ago•0 comments

Gemini 2.5 models accidentally deprecated early by Google

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-without-warning-earlier-than-shutdown...
1•erict15•4m ago•0 comments

Claude reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users

https://xcancel.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2075279141352706215
2•linsomniac•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: UniFi OS Server in Docker

https://github.com/unihosted/unifi-os-server-docker
2•basquiyacht•4m ago•0 comments

Alcohol consumption doubled in north Russian regions

https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/alcohol-consumption-doubled-in-north-russian-regions/453447
1•littlexsparkee•5m ago•0 comments

Netflix/Vera-Layered-Video-Dataset

https://huggingface.co/datasets/netflix/Vera-Layered-Video-Dataset
1•petethomas•5m ago•0 comments

'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
2•aendruk•7m ago•1 comments

Your next nurse may monitor you from the Philippines

https://restofworld.org/2026/u-s-healthcare-philippines-remote-nurses/
1•impish9208•7m ago•0 comments

What If It's Not the Phones?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/
1•Jtsummers•8m ago•0 comments

AI is powering an economy in which many Americans are falling behind

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/economy/ai-masks-inequality-americans
1•mapping365•9m ago•0 comments

Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/modular-pretraining/
1•kvee•11m ago•0 comments

Don't Get Sick in America

https://blogography.com/archives/2026/07/dont-get-sick-in-america.html
15•speckx•12m ago•6 comments

OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-is-discontinuing-chatgpt-atlas-its-standalone-desktop-browser/
2•coloneltcb•13m ago•0 comments

N+1

https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/n1
1•Caiero•13m ago•0 comments

AI that judges fantasy battles from images

https://dreadpit.com/
1•seldiora•15m ago•0 comments

Jeez is dead: post-mortem of an autonomous agent that died twice

https://www.marzapower.com/blog/jeez/season2/the-post-mortem/
1•marzapower•15m ago•0 comments

Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump bet on the same 10 stocks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-bet-on-the-same-10-stocks-some-mig...
2•petethomas•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will AI make English more uniform just as Python did with source code?

1•amichail•17m ago•0 comments

My niche Rust project now competes with Microsoft

https://jdiaz97.github.io/blog/my-niche-rust-project-now-competes-with-microsfot/
1•jdiaz97•19m ago•0 comments

The AGI Race and Existential Risk (speed of deployment vs. safety)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35276
1•jballesterosc•19m ago•0 comments

We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2075279141352706215
1•espeed•19m ago•0 comments

Truexon Font · 1001 Fonts

https://www.1001fonts.com/truexon-font.html
1•joseegregorio•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Status Light

https://github.com/whatadewitt/claude-status-light
1•Zypho•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Transcribe.Free - Free audio and video to text

https://transcribe.free/
1•nadermx•22m ago•0 comments

1k Days to Product Market Fit

https://deploy95.substack.com/p/1000-days-to-product-market-fit
1•tristalihaha•23m ago•0 comments

Daily global sea surface temperatures break records for the time of year

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-marine-and-copernicus-climate-change-daily-global-sea-su...
2•geox•23m ago•0 comments

Dot.dead: A Graveyard of Discontinued Projects

https://menyadanyazovut.github.io/dot.dead/
1•zahrevsky•24m ago•0 comments

Open Sourcing Our Most Advanced Linux Security Engine: OwlSM

https://www.levelblue.com/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/open-sourcing-our-most-advanced-linux-security-en...
2•speckx•26m ago•0 comments