Hacker News: jpcom

New comment by jpcom in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

jpcom — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:38:00 +0000

don't forget the love :)

Show HN: Japanese Sentence Analyzer

jpcom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:12:57 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/breakdown.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642268

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process"

jpcom — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:01:19 +0000

Which IDE are you using?

Show HN: Learn 100 Frequent Japanese Phrases

jpcom — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/jpc-mini-phrases.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400871

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

jpcom — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:40:15 +0000

Yes, it takes commitment to master a language. In the case of Japanese, which traditionally takes the most weeks to master when coming from English, we made Japanese Complete based on frequency analysis to help speed up the process of acquisition. With 777 kanji carefully selected by frequency you can get 90% coverage of kanji in the wild. This is about a third of the "daily use" set of ~2200 kanji so the process is greatly accelerated. If you're interested in seeing what 777 kanji look like, I recently created a small kanji quiz game that quizzes by English meaning words [0].

[0] https://japanesecomplete.com/kanji-game.html

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: Aiko – Talk to Your Japanese Tutor AI, Powered by XAI and Polly"

jpcom — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:57:33 +0000

You can use the product for free at the link I shared for Show HN. It is true this is incorporated into the broader lesson plan now, but initially I had just worked it out as a demo and was excited to show it to the community. I appreciate your vigilance although can't help but think it's misplaced.

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: Aiko – Talk to Your Japanese Tutor AI, Powered by XAI and Polly"

jpcom — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:55:59 +0000

Voice recordings are turned to text via in-browser Speech-to-Text (STT the opposite of TTS) and then piped / sent to Grok as text. These are privately sent via my API key to Grok. I don't hold on to them at all except for sending them over the wire to Grok. So storage duration on our side is as minimal as possible, typically just a few seconds while it is sent to Grok and a reply is formulated. However, one should be aware that the whole conversation is sent to Grok from within our lesson pages, so the whole chat persists for a session until you close out the tab or move to another lesson page, at which point it is reset.

Marine Le Pen barred from running for office for 5 years

jpcom — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:02:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250401_02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538512

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

jpcom — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:43:02 +0000

It's very beautiful, lovely work. Sleek and shiny, it's a device that begs for interaction, which is important in something that you'll be engaging with every 24-30 minutes. I would like a version of the display to show grains of sand falling through a digital hourglass.

Show HN: Kanji Game – Learn the most frequent kanji by English meanings

jpcom — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:30:21 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/kanji-game.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511016

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jpcom in "Ask HN: What advice would you give to a CS student today?"

jpcom — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:01:08 +0000

Team up with some loyal friends who are effective at getting things accomplished and make a company. If you can dream it you can achieve it. Especially now, with the barrier for creating products being lower than it has ever been. Of course, it probably helps to have some internship experience or learn from someone who has already built a business so you don't make all the same errors that can be easily avoided. But in general I think we are telling people that they are not ready to make businesses, when in fact the tools are getting very good, so good that it might be advisable to advise people to start making businesses straight out of school.

Aiko: Japanese Language AI Tutor

jpcom — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/articles/?p=1623

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43492544

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: Aiko – Talk to Your Japanese Tutor AI, Powered by XAI and Polly"

jpcom — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:42:40 +0000

Hey HN! I’m pumped to share Aiko, my Japanese tutor AI—learning Japanese should feel like chatting with a friend. Check it out at https://japanesecomplete.com/aiko.html —no signup needed for the demo!

Aiko uses xAI’s Grok (latest model) to craft natural Japanese replies and AWS Polly (Mizuki voice) to speak them. Pick a topic like "Greetings" or "Ordering Food," hit "Click to Record," and talk to her in Japanese—she listens via Web Speech API, responds, and plays it back. It’s real-time, with a mic level visualizer and auto-scrolling chat, all in client-side JS (React + Tailwind).

This ties into my Japanese Complete project (data-driven, 90% real-world Japanese coverage). Sold a $450 lifetime plan this morning, so I figured it’s HN time. Next up: server-side polish, auth, and more topics. Would love your take—especially on UX or scaling ideas!

Show HN: Aiko – Talk to Your Japanese Tutor AI, Powered by XAI and Polly

jpcom — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/aiko.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460926

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by jpcom in "Sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd"

jpcom — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:07:08 +0000

So cool. Is this basically like 2 inaudible waves coming together in an "overlap spot" to create an audible moment?

Another Look at Magic Sentence

jpcom — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://miso.beehiiv.com/p/another-look-at-magic-sentence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406783

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Say It Right: Chapter 27

jpcom — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://miso.beehiiv.com/p/say-it-right

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251163

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jpcom in "Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out?"

jpcom — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:38:53 +0000

Precisely. Henry C. Carey, Abraham Lincoln's chief economic adviser, would say that the article's platitudes about "interdependence" miss the fundamental issue - it's not interdependence itself but the _type_ of interdependence that matters. Carey's economic nationalism recognized that exporting raw materials only to import finished goods creates colonial-style dependency, not prosperity. Carey's "harmony of interests" demanded domestic manufacturing capabilities that transform local resources into higher-value products, creating what he called "association" between producers and consumers within the same economic sphere. When we outsource manufacturing to non-democratic nations with concentrated labor power, we're not creating mutual benefit but establishing extractive relationships that hollow out our productive capacity. True economic resilience comes from rebuilding local manufacturing prowess that completes the production cycle domestically - something the globalist narrative conveniently ignores while democratic nations gradually surrender their self-sufficiency in the name of "efficiency." Carey's approach would actually transcend zero-sum thinking by creating genuine wealth through productive transformation rather than mere exchange, in turn unlocking fresh potential for growth, when nations develop their complete productive capacities instead of competing for shares of existing production.

New comment by jpcom in "Show HN: What did you do last week? – Evaluates your 5 bullet points"

jpcom — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:06:54 +0000

Haha, according to this tool I am unemployed again! And I had a very productive week, by the way. Of course, it doesn't take into account how useful my creative pursuits were, it looks like it's evaluating me on my contributions to the mission to Mars? I didn't know the bureaucracy was tasked with that.

New comment by jpcom in "Introduction to a Self Managed Life"

jpcom — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:03:05 +0000

I think the trade is not only privacy but complexity. If I have to be a full-time system administrator for my one machine or set of machines, it really takes a toll. I'd rather just hand that work to a conglomerate. Linux in theory could also do this, but nobody has nailed it yet. By far the best advances have been package managers and those are only a fractional solution. For a person who does not have hours to pour into study and slamming their head against a keyboard in despair when something inexplicable is off, it is really hard to recommend something as fragile as linux. And I don't mean fragile if you "know what you're doing," I mean fragile for someone who doesn't know what GRUB is, doesn't know what a kernel does, doesn't need to ever see a compilation flag, and suddenly they're exposed to all the above when an update goes sour. There are, of course, efforts to make things return to a graceful state gracefully, but until there's an off-the-shelf solution for "rescue my machine remotely" that can run through all phases of the boot process, I think most people are gonna want to use something where they can blame a vendor instead of their own ignorance or lack of time to bone up on a topic as nested as open-source operating systems.