If English was written like Chinese (1999)(zompist.com)

285 points by watercooler_guy 2 years ago | 241 comments

HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD(hellosystem.github.io)

235 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 128 comments

Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice(lingochunk.com)

69 points by alder 4 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary(nomenclature.ctang.art)

57 points by ctangy 2 years ago | 5 comments

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures(bobbiec.github.io)

153 points by bobbiechen 8 months ago | 36 comments

Qwen2 LLM Released(qwenlm.github.io)

236 points by bratao 2 years ago | 120 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana(furifont.antfu.me)

388 points by plaguna 11 days ago | 81 comments

Landing page for Furifont, a Japanese font that renders furigana readings above kanji via ligatures, with downloads and a customization builder.

jq 1.7(github.com)

377 points by wwader 3 years ago | 169 comments

GitHub release page for jq 1.7, the first release in five years after the project moved to a new jqlang organization with new maintainers.

A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis(linyangchen.com)

453 points by _emacsomancer_ 3 years ago | 124 comments

Personal blog post by Lin Yangchen about typesetting a thesis in the 17th-century Fell Types font instead of uniform digital fonts like Caslon and Garamond.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

12 Months of Mandarin(isaak.net)

454 points by misiti3780 2 years ago | 249 comments

A personal blog post on Isaak.net recounting the author's experience learning Mandarin Chinese over twelve months.

After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code(dylanhuang.com)

468 points by gniting 1 year ago | 210 comments

Blog post by Dylan Huang announcing the shutdown of his developer tools startup Konfig after three years and open-sourcing its entire codebase.