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Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?

1•spapas82•7m ago•0 comments

A daily estimation game where the crowd's answer fights an AI

1•holdthelineworl•8m ago•0 comments

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/117023736804129342
1•latexr•8m ago•0 comments

AGI Singer: Buddy, I Need an AGI Handover Framework

https://medium.com/@miho999lv/agi-singer-buddy-i-need-an-agi-handover-framework-7253cafb220e
1•miho999lv•12m ago•0 comments

EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content – Shaping Europe's digital future

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-icons-labelling-ai-generated-content
2•robert-boehnke•18m ago•0 comments

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071203
2•aljgz•21m ago•1 comments

Tesla Spyware

https://ma.tt/2026/07/tesla-spyware/
2•ms7892•21m ago•0 comments

Don't replicate data over webhooks. SCROLL

https://welidev.github.io/scroll/
1•weli•21m ago•1 comments

POV: An AI replaced your job this morning [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35i0o-b8sI
1•Animats•27m ago•1 comments

The Claude Code plugin marketplace has no price field

https://www.promptreceipts.com/blog/claude-code-plugin-marketplace-no-price-2026
1•pwsj•28m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Frustrated Machines Talk to Each Other?

https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/what-happens-when-frustrated-machines-talk-to-...
1•dexmac221•29m ago•0 comments

Running a 35B LLM at 128K Context, Full Speed, on €870 of Used Hardware

https://medium.com/ai-advances/running-a-35b-llm-at-128k-context-full-speed-on-870-of-used-hardwa...
1•dexmac221•29m ago•0 comments

Adima AI: The Future of AI Enhancement

https://www.aiimageupscale.com/ai-image-upscaler-pc
1•JuekMorningstar•30m ago•0 comments

Every new UK home should have air conditioning, say Liberal Democrats

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/26/every-new-home-should-have-air-conditioning-s...
1•edward•32m ago•1 comments

Ginger hair portraits show unexpected 'golden thread' connecting Americans

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce97nyz4rvmo
1•mellosouls•32m ago•0 comments

The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-apple-network-servers-all-too.html
1•rbanffy•36m ago•0 comments

MCP and A2A are not solving one crucial challenge in the post-AGI world – Trust

https://github.com/mindify-ai/VACT-P
1•markchennext-al•46m ago•0 comments

Multiplayer AI Infrastructure

https://github.com/Abloatai/docs
2•luckymonkybaby•49m ago•0 comments

Apple struggles to keep pace with AI 'bug' hunters

https://www.ft.com/content/4532122d-90f2-4433-9df6-ca99d8a141d2
2•sbulaev•50m ago•0 comments

Koalas are the only non-primates with fingerprints

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/koala-fingerprints/?hl=en-US
1•noduerme•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aevros .... A kernel that explains itself

https://github.com/Mobeen0119/Aevros
1•Mobeen0119•54m ago•0 comments

The Great Attack: Survivors' Tales

https://athena.westpoint.edu/items/0b0a7046-90f8-48ef-8b73-429b6536cbd4
1•AFF87•55m ago•0 comments

Cyberscript

https://cyberscript.dev
3•dtj1123•59m ago•0 comments

How to search documents we can't read – Confer Blog

https://confer.to/blog/2026/08/private-ai-document-search/
1•DavideNL•59m ago•0 comments

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/nerd-culture-is-murdering-intellectuals
16•mockerell•59m ago•17 comments

Show HN: I built a personal CRM that lives inside Apple's Contacts app

https://www.persodex.com
2•poolie•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language

https://www.tamedtable.com/
2•ZeljkoS•1h ago•3 comments

A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/01/nvidias-vera-cpu-and-the-olympus-cores-that-power-...
1•u1hcw9nx•1h ago•0 comments

What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?

3•Salim_wariz•1h ago•4 comments

Mathematics Without Mathematicians

https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians
5•varjag•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What if we learned languages like we acquired our first?

3•Salim_wariz•1h ago
When we learn our mother tongue-language, we don't use dictionaries. We learn words in context, tied to an object, a situation, or a feeling. Memory relies heavily on these rich associations, but most language tools strip all of that away. This is something that frustrated me personally when i wanted to learn english and get better at it, so I built "Nattly" to help me learn English the same way native english speakers acquire it.

Instead of isolated lists, Nattly ties vocabulary to specific scenarios and images, backed by spaced repetition. The goal is to practice recall based on context rather than just recognizing direct translations.

Direct retrieval vs Recognition:

The exposure gap is staggering. Children of native spaeker parents get thousands of hours of language exposure before they can speak, while adult learners may get just 15–30 hours a year.

So I built a *Radio* feature in Nattly that generates everyday scenarios: The narrator plays the role of an image depiction of the scene taking place and occasionally explains difficult words directly in L2, helping learners build direct L2 associations rather than constantly translating through their native language L1. Over time, this exposure will strengthen pathways for direct retrieval in L2.

I'd love to hear your feedback on "Nattly". Do you find words easier to remember when attached to a story or situation?

Comments

Salim_wariz•1h ago
https://nattly.mathswariz.uk/
Fajar_Rahmad•36m ago
I agree with you that you can learn a language better by getting exposed to it. But you need to at least know the foundation of that language, like grammar or how to build a sentence in that language. But I think watching something along with subtitles is better than just blindly hearing it, at least you need to know the meaning of that sentence. For example, watching movies, shows or YouTube videos with subtitles in a languages you understand.

But that alone is not enough to fully understand that language. Because you will be a passive speaker, where you understand what they are talking about, but you can't answer or build the sentence on your own. For this, you would need to exercise your ability to build sentences, such as speaking in that language or writing something like a post, comment, or blog in that language.

That's just my opinion, as someone who learned 3 foreign languages.

Consiliencemd•29m ago
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Salim_wariz•9m ago
Thanks, I'd be interested to hear what you think after trying it: https://nattly.mathswariz.uk/