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Azure Outage

284•kierenj•1h ago•131 comments

Keep Android Open

http://keepandroidopen.org/
1935•LorenDB•13h ago•585 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta
41•seemaze•56m ago•12 comments

Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

https://cursor.com/blog/composer
74•leerob•1h ago•39 comments

I made a 10¢ MCU Talk

https://www.atomic14.com/2025/10/29/CH32V003-talking
96•iamflimflam1•3h ago•31 comments

Floss Before Brushing

https://alearningaday.blog/2025/10/29/floss-before-brushing/
22•imasl42•56m ago•12 comments

Does brand advertising work? Upwave (YC S12) is hiring engineers to answer that

https://www.upwave.com/job/8228849002/
1•ckelly•18m ago

Beyond RaspberryPi: What are all the other SoC vendors up to *summarised*

https://sbcwiki.com/news/articles/state-of-embedded-q4-25/
57•HeyMeco•4d ago•25 comments

Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test

https://www.ccc.de/en/disclosure/collins-aerospace-mit-test-test-textnachrichten-bis-ins-cockpit-...
44•hacka22•2h ago•16 comments

Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down

61•sech8420•1h ago•34 comments

Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html
105•gmays•1w ago•10 comments

From VS Code to Helix

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/10/29-vscode-to-helix/
150•todsacerdoti•3h ago•82 comments

Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021)

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
17•WA9ACE•1h ago•6 comments

Recreating a Homebrew Game System from 1987

https://alex-j-lowry.github.io/z80tvg.html
43•voxadam•3h ago•1 comments

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10/28/iongraph-web.html
374•pdubroy•12h ago•70 comments

AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-10-29-aws-to-bare-metal-two-years-later/view
415•ndhandala•6h ago•313 comments

Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS

https://draw.wrobele.com/
26•tomaszsobota•2h ago•8 comments

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
648•AndrewDucker•4d ago•269 comments

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

https://blog.j11y.io/2025-10-29_stroke_tips_for_engineers/
403•padolsey•13h ago•145 comments

Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features

52•haute_cuisine•1h ago•8 comments

uBlock Origin Lite Apple App Store

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698
329•mumber_typhoon•13h ago•159 comments

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks
168•enether•3h ago•165 comments

Show HN: Learn German with Games

https://www.learngermanwithgames.com/
59•predictand•5h ago•30 comments

The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/27/the-end-of-the-rip-off-economy
118•scythe•1h ago•101 comments

AirTips – Alternative to Bento.me/Linktree

https://a.coffee/
10•Airyisland•1h ago•7 comments

Oracle has adopted BOOLEAN in 23ai and PostgreSQL had it forever

https://hexacluster.ai/blog/postgresql/oracles-adoption-of-native-boolean-data-type-vs-postgresql/
13•avi_vallarapu•2h ago•9 comments

SpiderMonkey Garbage Collector

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/js/gc.html
67•sebg•8h ago•3 comments

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
21•jmsflknr•49m ago•4 comments

Berkeley Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor (Boom) (2020)

https://docs.boom-core.org/en/latest/sections/intro-overview/boom.html
28•Bogdanp•4h ago•9 comments

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition
9•SteveHawk27•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Learn German with Games

https://www.learngermanwithgames.com/
59•predictand•5h ago
I just started learning German, and it has been a frustrating experience, to say the least. There are so many seemingly arbitrary rules that make pattern recognition very difficult. Therefore, I have been looking for ways to make memorization a bit easier and fun. So, I came up with a bunch of games to make learning German a bit more engaging. Hope you find it useful as well!

Comments

xg15•3h ago
It's a really cool idea! Watch out for AI mistakes though, especially when generating content in a foreign language. I see one mistake in the "Time Short Form Game" image where the image has "habl" for what should probably mean "halb".

Also, I'm not sure if converting between 5 digit numbers and words is a good starting task, unless you want to dive right in with German's (in)famous word chaining ability.

predictand•2h ago
Yep, I noticed AI is terrible with words on images, and that seems to have slipped my attention. Thanks for the callout! I tried to keep the number games tamed by only going up to 3 digits.
tobi_bsf•3h ago
Nice, not sure if "Guess the Artikel" makes sense this way. Sometimes it’s not clear whether the word is singular or plural, which affects the article. For example, I got "Ausländer," which can either be "die" for plural or "der" for singular.
rob74•2h ago
There are words that can have several Artikel, sometimes depending on regional differences (e.g. Austrians have different preferences than Germans), sometimes because of multiple meanings of a word. In that case, I would expect the game to accept all valid answers. But I got the impression that all words were singular, so "der" would be the only valid option for "Ausländer". I had a similar issue with "Geschwister", where I picked "das" (correct according to https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Geschwister), but the game expected "die" (which IMHO only makes sense for the plural form). Looks like it needs a bit more QA :)
predictand•2h ago
The intention with that game was to pick the artikels for the singular form of the words. I am a complete beginner in German, but I thought the artikel for plurals is always 'die'. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of exceptions to that rule. As for Geschwister, yep, that seems wrong. I will fix it!
Lutzb•17m ago
I had "Jugendliche". "Der" can make sense for a male person. But "die" would also work, for the female person.
weinzierl•52m ago
Sometimes it's not regional but depends on the intended meaning. "der Schild" is the thing you wear for protection (shield), "das Schild" tells you the way (sign).
rspoerri•3h ago
I don't see how people can learn a language by tests, which are only telling you if you did it right or wrong. I can see how this is used to verify the existing knowledge, but I don't see any usage in learning.
IAmBroom•3h ago
It's gamified. People like winning games. People dislike taking tests.
rspoerri•2h ago
It's still not learning, it's verification of existing knowledge. It might be more fun than taking tests, nevertheless you cannot learn knowledge by testing knowledge, you can only verify it. Only if the user answers correctly you might consolidate the already existing knowledge.
predictand•1h ago
I think it is fair to call it more practice than learning. I hope to add more games in the future that focus on the learning aspect of things. However, as a beginner, I still find that it helps me learn new words. If I continuously make the same mistake and receive feedback on my answer, it eventually makes me learn what is correct.
watwut•1h ago
I mean specifically for articles, there are only three options. So, eventually you will figure out the correct one based on the feedback.
vunderba•2h ago
It's a nicely laid out site, but I tried every single activity on the site. Calling them games is... really stretching the definition. They are all interactive quizzes.
rob74•2h ago
Of course, these games won't help improve your fluency in speaking German, but they might help you e.g. remember the correct gender of a noun (and thus its "Artikel"), which is one of the most difficult aspects of German and can only be done through rote memorization.
adamredwoods•1h ago
I agree with this, I didn't see it as a game or learning anything. It didn't even give me the correct answers if I got it wrong.

This is more of a "quiz" format, not learning. There is a difference.

merelysounds•3h ago
Congrats on the launch!

Quick feedback: the website looks very polished and intuitive. I especially liked the test about articles, where I didn’t have to type. I liked that the website works well on mobile too. The content is not what I’d call games though; based on the name I expected something different than test questions and quizzes.

predictand•2h ago
Fair enough! I should try to introduce other options that are more game-like.
rwoerz•2h ago
Congrats.

Some German natives may argue that the time short forms are wrong as they prefer "dreiviertel" instead of "viertel vor".

brettermeier•2h ago
Stay with "viertel vor" please :D Well, it depends on where you are in germany...
rob74•2h ago
Let's not get started with that... those same people also say "viertel vier" to mean 3:15 (one quarter of the "fourth hour" has passed), which is really confusing to the uninitiated, so "viertel nach"/"viertel vor" is preferable IMHO...
ce4•17m ago
It does make sense though (once you know where it comes from): Before the ubiquity of watches, time was announced using church clocks and bell strikes. There's a big bell for hours (low pitch) and a smaller one for announcing quarters (higher pitch).

Signalling zero is not possible using "zero bell strikes", so 00:00 is signalled by 4 strikes of the quarters bell and 12 strikes of the hour bell.

Thus, the sequences go like: 11:15 1x quarter bell 11:30 2x quarter bell 11:45 3x quarter bell 12:00 4x quarter bell + 1x hour bell

Basically it makes sense then as all the quarters belong to the same hour.

elicash•2h ago
On the topic of learning German with games, the recommendation I've seen before is that many games have language options and depending on the type of game you can learn a lot that way just because you spend SO many hours in it.

So the Sims, I'd guess, is probably a good example for building vocabulary. Edit: example https://dasboudicca.substack.com/p/i-learned-german-and-siml... (This writer has lots of game learning reviews)

predictand•1h ago
That's a really good recommendation! Also, a great excuse to spend more time gaming.
fnands•1h ago
Nice!

It's a bit similar to Grammatisch, although that just focuses on the grammar.

nxor•1h ago
Somewhat related: if you think German is hard, prepare yourself for the friendly and talkative culture :)
kleiba•38m ago
What do you mean?
ixxie•1h ago
Sprachspiele!
ghufran_syed•24m ago
fyi, the account confirmation email redirects and ends up on a tab with address localhost:3000. looks like it did work, i was able to login after that, but many users may assume it failed and give up
vr46•23m ago
Took me to my local grafana instance, which was a surprise :D
tEMporality7•13m ago
Looks like this been made with AI. It seems too "clean" and simple and others have pointed out some issues.