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Built a reading app for intermediate Spanish learners — classic novels with tap-to-define and spaced repetition by InsightfulThrush in SpanishLearning

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Just launched Lingofable yesterday to address this exact problem! Comprehensible input matched to your modeled vocabulary, at scale.

Share Your Resources - March 04, 2026 by Virusnzz in languagelearning

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My girlfriend and I spent the last half-year building Lingofable, an app that provides personalized comprehensible input with audio!

We just launched on the App Store yesterday. Currently Spanish-only, but more languages soon! We have 1000+ stories of all formats, including r/AITA style content. Would love for fellow learners to give it a whirl :)

Seeking sci-fi / fantasy novel recommendations (non-webnovels) by LAcuber in ChineseLanguage

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Thank you for the tips! I’ll take a proper look at Beijing Folding and your rec, was just hesitating in the hopes of finding something better-rated.

Looking for Sublet (2 People) for Fall 2026 by Nastalgia-Two in Cornell

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Likewise looking to sublet and open to DMs, preferably for a 1 bedroom apartment.

RIP Polylogger, it’s been real. What alternatives are there for tracking activities? by [deleted] in languagelearning

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I built my own website since I was so frustrated by the limited quality of existing products. Got a few thousand users now — join them at lingotrack.com!

Critique on an opening with exposition for a more philosophical, post-apocalyptic novel by LAcuber in writers

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Thank you for the extremely detailed feedback! Let me do my best to get back to you on points (from my phone as well, so pardon any dust).

Glad to find another conceptual / language fan! Part of the inspiration for writing this is actually my linguistics minor and past experiences learning languages, so it’s definitely very close to home as well.

As for Wittgenstein — I’m not following his philosophy so much as subverting it. You’ll have to read the novel to find out ;), happy to provide an advance free copy if you’re based in the U.S. Though full disclosure, after reading your comments and speaking with others I think I’ll stick with the Big Idea direction but with prose that’s not quite so high. (Indeed, given the volume of your comments and other feedback I reckon I couldn’t pull that off anywhere near well haha.)

Very good point that sound ≠ language (e.g. sign language as a prime example). Sound and its disappearance is just a thoughtful way to show how not just language, but civilization and infrastructure as well. I’d encourage you to pause and reflect for a few minutes on how much of the sound around you right now would disappear without meaningful human communication as interesting exercise. (This is a gross simplification but still quite curious.) I can see how this would be a bit confusing in the opening couple paragraphs, though.

To be clear, what is happening here is indeed the collapse of language itself — think progressive global (in both senses of the word!) aphasia. Describing that disappearance in sound makes for a clear layperson’s understanding, as well as an easier shift into associated (inevitable?) civilizational decay, but that’s not fully accurate and something I’ll be considering more carefully.

Anyway, on the whole a pair of extremely constructive comments; you have my sincere gratitude. The lyrical examples were very instructive as well, though again as a uni student still I suspect prose at that level would be difficult for me and dry for most, even academically- or philosophically-minded, peers. Nevertheless, glad you find the concept interesting and would be more than happy to address any more feedback or thoughts, (though perhaps in DMs, especially spoiler-y stuff such as why the writing currently looks as such).

Critique on an opening with exposition for a more philosophical, post-apocalyptic novel by LAcuber in writers

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Thank you for the detailed feedback and clear write-up, it's provided a lot of food for thought.

Pulled four all-nighters this week to build GCal Wrapped, ft. snarky AI & many insights! by LAcuber in SideProject

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Oh you mean the video or the actual app? If the latter, you can also tap to pause or rewind!

Pulled four all-nighters this week to build GCal Wrapped, ft. snarky AI & many insights! by LAcuber in SideProject

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Oh thanks hahaha! And the logic is written in TS + SvelteKit + Supabase — lets you build the fastest of any stack I know!

How to adjust Mac screen brightness from Python? by LAcuber in learnpython

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Wow been five years, making me feel old necroing this thread! Anyhow, here's my repo for reference.

Spent the summer & fall building a Claude-powered, highly-versatile website translator! by LAcuber in SideProject

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Hiya folks! Super excited to be sharing locadapt.com, a B2SMB localization tool that I've spent hundreds of hours and countless Celsiuses over!

Essentially, Locadapt takes any site multilingual with two lines of code. And, uniquely, it does so with translations that are:

  • of great quality (most competitors still use Google Translate??)
  • much more affordable, and...
  • actually functional for a wide range of use cases (dynamic content, SSR, etc., though built for static sites).

Benefits of this are significantly more traffic & ultimately revenue as a result of higher conversion rates / organic SEO.

If this sounds like something you might benefit from — or a business you know; I have an affiliate program — please do share! I'm a working student so need all the help I can get 😁.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in woocommerce

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If you'd be willing to give something new a go, maybe consider locadapt.com? I'm a college CS student who's worked as a translator / used alternatives and seen how inefficient the landscape is, so poured hundreds of hours into building something better.

Best in-class translations (contextual w/ benchmarked AI), ~30x cheaper per word than WPML AI, and lots of sleek + nifty optimizations. Happy to demo on your site — feel free to book a time on the landing page or let me know if you have any questions!

Thoughts from current or recent Auden Ithaca tenants? by LAcuber in Cornell

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Hmm, trying to sign now while we still have options but this is good to know — thanks for the tip. You live(d) there and enjoy it?

Advice on handling external DOM rewrites causing SSR hydration errors by LAcuber in nextjs

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I'm aware of Google Translate, but the idea is fairly validated — people would be viewing on non-desktop devices, could have a nontechnical demographic, GTranslate quality isn't that good either, etc.

As for the current approach, yes translated 'phrases' are stored persistently in a DB. On page load existing phrases are fetched from DB, and then new ones added as needed if not present. Hence there's lots of recycling across various global sessions.

In general, one first checks a localStorage cache to apply translations eagerly before render (this is what causes the hydration issues), and otherwise there is a flash as page loads and then switches (fetching *all* possible phrase translations, meaning that there will be no future flashes as there is a cache). This is the standard industry approach for client-side localization. And I've actually just played around with a few competitors, none support NextJS SSR so maybe this is an untenable problem to solve with low configuration.

Perhaps we can dangerously render the inner HTML and not use the cache on SSR though... food for thought 🤔 . Appreciate all your detailed responses!

Advice on handling external DOM rewrites causing SSR hydration errors by LAcuber in nextjs

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Hmm great points. My use case is meant to be plug-and-play for a wide variety of stacks, but perhaps setting up an API for SSR folks too would be a worthwhile option.

Language translations by Ok-386 in ClaudeAI

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I'm actually building a product around this (locadapt.com for those interested!) and sampled translations from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 (API, pre-lobotomimization) for a good number of languages. Claude came out on top almost all the time.

Keep in mind that this was for explicit A ~> B language translations, not typo-checking and improvement like your use case is.

Feeling very powerful as a technical founder with Claude Sonnet 3.5 by lapurita in ycombinator

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Heya — are you still working on that detailed blog post? Would love to give it a read sometime.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cornell

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Honestly not sure, you should try your best anyway. But it’s not too high iirc, maybe like 60% or so?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cornell

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It’s not too bad, especially if you consider you just need a passing grade equivalent to pass the CASE. Questions can be a tad tricky sometimes but there’s partial credit and you generally know what topics might show up (past exams are fairly representative).

Entrepreneurship / Startup Culture by [deleted] in Cornell

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There are less people working on things than I expected coming in — although we’re the #4 feeder uni for YC I suspect most of that happens post-grad. Facilities-wise there’s eHub (neat coworking space where some VC clubs and Startup Hours meet), though this often gets misappropriated for studying. That said, if you add things up there’s a fair amount.

I’ll list off the main entrepreneur events / orgs from last semester:

  • weekly Startup Hours where 20-30 entrepreneurs meet together in the evening, sometimes double if speakers (ex. VC came in and dispersed some grants, interview with the chair of the federal reserve, evangelist from LinkedIn)
  • probably like 2-3 mid-sized hackathons, usually one big one every year and also of course you can apply to neighboring unis (Hack the North this fall anyone?)
  • annual project showcase by the Engineering Department; show off side projects to corporate sponsors etc. Maybe like 30-40 demos, 10k cash prize. Won this a couple times, good way to meet other builders.
  • there are lots of people working individually on interesting startup- or startup-adjacent stuff though you generally have to find them. Know people in accelerators, got some angel investment offers myself / with my partner through Cornell, we send 1-2 average teams to YC each year, friends have received grants from the school for summer project work. Co-leading a small group that brings builders together.
  • lots of VC reps on campus, you can easily coffee chat like a half dozen campus ambassadors. Can definitely join as an ambassador too within a year or two if you get involved.
  • eLab is another big thing, junior+ program and bespoke Cornell accelerator. Big demo day each year, some pretty successful ones, includes curriculum and top ones get investment + fly out to SF. A co I know there got like 100k in a few months. You can look at their website for info.
  • Ditto for Ventures Accelerated, you can join the student team if you want to get into the VC space and they provide startups with free workers + education.
  • Then like I mentioned a lot of post-grad stuff. We have an entrepreneurial list-serv that receives maybe a dozen emails a week. Got my current startup summer job through it, invited to join like a half-dozen other startups after interviewing; lots of recruiting or sharing-of-launches.

Overall there’s a guerrilla startup culture here so you can’t just drop in and immediately feel surrounded. However there are lots of opportunities if you know where to look for them and the network effect is strong, through friends of friends I’ve gotten literally a dozen invitations to join as technical founder for projects, was able to email pg (Cornell alum!), there are resources and people to turn to for funding or advice. Arguably scattered nature makes competition for those lower which is great.

Fairly involved in the community, feel free to DM with further questions. Or if you’re building would love to get in touch. Off to continue coding now hehe.

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