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New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:42:42 +0000

I have a pipeline of jp epub>m4b, just need to swap tts models in between :)

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:20:25 +0000

Exactly. Qwen only has one pitch accent for pure hiragana words, even though it actually work (removing mandarin mixed-in), which requires some great efforts to normalize text in order to disambiguate heteronyms, the result is (if you use voice cloning) your favorite CV speaking in some weird, unknown accent :)

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

_hzw — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:49:36 +0000

I'd love to see a monolingual Japanese model sometime in the future. Qwen3-tts works for Japanese in general, but from time to time it will mix with some Mandarin in between, making it unusable.

New comment by _hzw in "David Lynch has died"

_hzw — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:05:18 +0000

An (un)obvious connection between Eraserhead and Bloodborne (spoiler!):

https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/xgu21c/eraserhe...

New comment by _hzw in "Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor"

_hzw — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:40:08 +0000

Apple Books has some rare exclusives. To name one, all of Norman Berrow's novels are only available there.

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product"

_hzw — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:35:16 +0000

New comment by _hzw in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"

_hzw — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:30:02 +0000

If both are selfish, then neither is selfish. You conveniently deconstructed the concept of selfishness and I like it a lot.

New comment by _hzw in "Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical"

_hzw — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:34:21 +0000

If that was the reason, Gemini must have been doing some very convoluted reasoning...

New comment by _hzw in "Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical"

_hzw — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:29:36 +0000

Tangent. Yesterday I tried Gemini Ultra with a Django template question (HTML + Bootstrap v5 related), and here's its totally unrelated answer:

> Elections are a complex topic with fast-changing information. To make sure you have the latest and most accurate information, try Google Search.

I know how to do it myself, I just want to see if Gemini can solve it. And it did (or didn't?) disappoint me.

Links: https://g.co/gemini/share/fe710b6dfc95

And ChatGPT's: https://chat.openai.com/share/e8f6d571-127d-46e7-9826-015ec3...

New comment by _hzw in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"

_hzw — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:33:16 +0000

It's interesting to note that you consider having children a selfish choice, because in some cultures, not having children is considered selfish.

New comment by _hzw in "YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix"

_hzw — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:40:30 +0000

I live in Germany. After dual-using Google Maps and Apple Maps for a year, I've finally uninstalled Google Maps and now use only Apple Maps.

New comment by _hzw in "Letterboxd/Goodreads/storygraph but for video games?"

_hzw — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:41:50 +0000

I resonate with the top comment on Tildes that suggests we need a singular conglomerate to cover all media types. We actually had one from China, douban.com, but the situation of censorship there makes it unusable. There are also a few new alternatives, such as nicedb.org and its fork, neodb.social, but I find them somehow lacking.

New comment by _hzw in "Blot turns a folder into a website"

_hzw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:27:54 +0000

Does anyone remember scriptogr.am? It was a similar idea, but it's long gone now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=scriptogr.am

New comment by _hzw in "Positive news from 2023"

_hzw — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:29:19 +0000

As the saying goes, "no news is good news".

New comment by _hzw in "Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/Minecraft (2010)"

_hzw — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:46:01 +0000

Is there anyone out there building a federated Wiki based on ActivityPub, given it's such a fad nowadays?

New comment by _hzw in "Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web"

_hzw — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:53:31 +0000

No, personal web in China almost doesn’t exist anymore because you need a ICP filing [0] to legally operate a website (even for a blog). It’s simply too much trouble for most people.

[0]: https://china-digital.com/blogs/what-is-icp-license/

New comment by _hzw in "How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)"

_hzw — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:32:23 +0000

There's no adventure if you know what lies ahead. But I suppose some are fine without adventure in their lives.

New comment by _hzw in "Walkers in the city and everywhere"

_hzw — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:11:42 +0000

I live in a small college town in Germany. My workplace is a 15- to 20-minute uphill walk away, my family doctor is in the building next to where I live, and all my friends are within a 40-minute walking distance. The situation was almost the same when I lived in China, in a smaller town two hours' drive from Guangzhou. I've walked my whole life and don't even know how to drive. I've almost taken for granted that one should be able to walk to any place that is important to them; perhaps it's not that universal elsewhere?

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps"

_hzw — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:16:25 +0000

I made my web app into a PWA and even went so far as to polish the home screen icon and splash screen to make it look nice once installed. However, in the end, I use the browser much more frequently, simply because I can access the URL of the page and share it elsewhere.

New comment by _hzw in "Show HN: Hardcover – Letterboxd for Books"

_hzw — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:06:22 +0000

I will let users decide whether they want comments or not. I've also considered public/private notes, as I am working on something similar, and I've reached the conclusion that people post on a web app because they want to be seen; otherwise, they would just write in their diary. Private notes always give me a sense of false privacy, as anyone with admin access to the database can read whatever private things you've written, unless you make it clear to users that "private" means not viewable by other users but not private from the admins. An alternative is to offer an offline app, private notes never sync to the server (cross-device syncing can be done by iCloud, for example).