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Grade 2 Braille

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 15:49:34

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

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Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-24 05:00:00

Kayak co-founder Paul English is back with a new venture—this time, he’s taking on Calendly. The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple. Supercal was born out of English’s personal experience with the challenges of booking meetings. As a member of eight boards of directors, English says he and others often struggled to coordinate schedules. He then set out to create an email system for booking group meeti

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FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

news.ycombinator.com Ramiro Polla 2025-09-26 10:54:34

Gallery There are some artists out there doing some amazing work using FFglitch. I put this page up so that I don’t have to go hunting for examples every time I want to show someone what can be done with FFglitch. Thomas Collet has a lot of work using FFglitch on vimeo, instagram, and reddit. A bunch more from Thomas: Kaspar Ravel wrote a blog post about a collaboration he did with Thomas Collet which resulted in this gem: Here’s the blog post: https://www.kaspar.wtf/blog/encoding-

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FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch arch

news.ycombinator.com Ramiro Polla 2025-09-26 20:54:34

Gallery There are some artists out there doing some amazing work using FFglitch. I put this page up so that I don’t have to go hunting for examples every time I want to show someone what can be done with FFglitch. Thomas Collet has a lot of work using FFglitch on vimeo, instagram, and reddit. A bunch more from Thomas: Kaspar Ravel wrote a blog post about a collaboration he did with Thomas Collet which resulted in this gem: Here’s the blog post: https://www.kaspar.wtf/blog/encoding-

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Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:04:32

Since its debut in 2009, Grammarly has only been available in one language: English. Sure, you could switch between dialects, including Canadian and Indian English, but if you wrote in any other language, you were out of luck. That's changing today with Grammarly rolling out beta support for five additional languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The update is available to all Grammarly customers — whether you live in a country that speaks the language you want to write in o

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‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Promises New Songs Will Hit All the Right Notes

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-02 17:43:19

As anticipation builds for Wicked: For Good, the second act to 2024’s Oscar-winning Wicked, director Jon M. Chu has revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that the upcoming film will feature not one, but two new bespoke songs—that’s one tune for each witch. While Chu didn’t announce the songs’ titles, the outlet teased that the new tracks by composer Stephen Schwartz are no “mere bids for a Best Original Song nomination.” In fact, Chu says the new songs are deeply needed addition

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Morse Code Translator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 18:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Does anyone still use Morse code?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Some new Pixel 10 phones are failing with a screen of colorful snow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 09:55:38

TL;DR New Pixel 10 owners are running into some display glitches on their phones. Affected handsets suddenly display a screenful of colorful snow, but otherwise remain operational. The glitches may only appear temporarily and could just be a software bug. What’s better than the first days of getting to know a new smartphone? After a long wait, you’ve finally got your hands on the hottest new hardware around, and now it’s your chance to try out all the exciting new features you’ve been hearing

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The Grammar According to West

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 08:51:05

The Grammar According to West by Douglas B. West Summary I have been accumulating observations about writing mathematics for many years. These conclusions arose both from writing textbooks and from noting writing errors commonly made by my thesis students and in papers submitted to journals. My first objective was to train my students, thereby reducing the time needed to edit their theses. As the document grew, I made it publicly available in the hope that others may find it useful. I have r

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2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-25 17:39:10

Manual transmissions have gone the way of the dodo, but you can still find a few out there. Bless Volkswagen for keeping the helical gears turning, both literally and figuratively. The 2025 Jetta GLI, Volkswagen's sporty sedan, still offers a gear lever with actual gears attached at the other end, and a third pedal hanging down from under the dash. Meanwhile, Golf GTI fans are still sobbing in their beer because 2024 was the last model year you could row your own in the hot hatch—now it's paddle

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A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-26 16:20:02

The next big obesity medication coming down the pipeline will likely come in pill form. Eli Lilly has just released the latest positive Phase III trial results of its experimental oral GLP-1 drug, orforglipron. On Tuesday morning, Eli Lilly reported that orforglipron met the benchmarks of the company’s Phase III ATTAIN-2 study. People taking orforglipron experienced substantial improvements in weight loss and blood sugar control compared to those taking a placebo, the study showed. Armed with d

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NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-29 03:17:57

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed. Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update is beneficial for non-English speakers who want to learn from visual

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NotebookLM’s Video Overview feature now supports 80 languages

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-29 08:17:57

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overview, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed. Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update is beneficial for non-English speakers who want to learn from visual s

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1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 12:54:35

The Soviet Hobbit Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain Alex Q. Arbuckle 1976 Credit: Via English Russia First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into more than 40 languages. In addition to different translations, dozens of uniquely illustrated versions of the children’s story have been released over the years. This 1976 Soviet edition features illustrations by M. Belomlinskij, depicting Bilbo, Ga

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Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 12:54:35

The Soviet Hobbit Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain Alex Q. Arbuckle 1976 Credit: Via English Russia First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into more than 40 languages. In addition to different translations, dozens of uniquely illustrated versions of the children’s story have been released over the years. This 1976 Soviet edition features illustrations by M. Belomlinskij, depicting Bilbo, Ga

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Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 12:54:35

The Soviet Hobbit Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain Alex Q. Arbuckle 1976 Credit: Via English Russia First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into more than 40 languages. In addition to different translations, dozens of uniquely illustrated versions of the children’s story have been released over the years. This 1976 Soviet edition features illustrations by M. Belomlinskij, depicting Bilbo, Ga

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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-12-01 08:30:00

An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than 12 percent of body weight in individuals with obesity, according to initial trial results announced by the drugmaker on Thursday. The pill is meant to be taken daily and would be an alternative to the company’s popular anti-obesity drug Zepbound, a once-weekly injectable drug. Called orforglipron, it’s part of a growing class of drugs known as GLP-1s, which include Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy. The drugs mimic a

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You know more Finnish than you think

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 22:08:19

Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, making helpful connections and breaking down psychological barriers. This theme was present in two old posts of mine that used etymology to elucidate two Old English texts, namely Beowulf and The Wanderer. Now, as an unplanned third installment, allow me to show you how familiar a whole language can be. This is the i

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The Bluesky Dictionary

news.ycombinator.com Avi Bagla 2025-12-01 21:43:08

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language?

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How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 06:10:21

Key Insights The new Force Push Scanner tool scans for secrets in dangling commits on GitHub that remain exposed after certain force push operations. Run the following command to scan your GitHub repositories: python force_push_scanner . py -- db - file pushes . sqlite3 -- scan < github_org / user Zero-Commit Force Push operations: where developers attempt to erase mistakes by resetting their git history without pushing new commits. There are tens of millions of dangling commits publicly acc

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Org tutorials

news.ycombinator.com Worg People 2025-12-31 05:09:20

This tutorial describes a workflow for running a series of meetings, for example of a commission or any other group, and for keeping track of the groups tasks. Link to the tutorial. You may also want to check this message by Christian Egli about his own setup for taking notes during meetings.

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UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-10 12:37:37

In Brief The massive AI deal between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reportedly on hold before it can be finalized due to national security reasons. The deal, which gives the green light to the UAE to buy billions of dollars worth of AI chips from Nvidia and other semiconductor companies, is on hold due to concerns in the U.S. that these AI chips could end up in China, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. This potential chip smuggling was a concern when t

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A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

news.ycombinator.com Emma Loffhagen 2026-01-09 00:33:24

Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met. By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emai

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The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

news.ycombinator.com Emma Loffhagen 2026-01-09 12:33:24

Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met. By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emai

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Introduction to Indian English

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 16:47:34

Content In less than 200 years since its formal introduction as part of a nascent and westernized education system, English has grown to be the medium through which the people of India communicate with the world, and often with one another. In large parts of a country with several major languages, it vies with Hindi—the most commonly used Indian language—as the spoken language of choice. There is a range of ability from a mere smattering of words, to some amount of rudimentary communication, to

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‘Squid Game’ VIP Actor Speaks Out on That Awful English Voiceover

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-31 12:00:36

Squid Game season three has been met with decidedly mixed reviews, with most fans rating it as the blockbuster hit’s weakest installment. That ending didn’t help things, but neither did the enhanced presence of the show’s most annoying characters: the billionaire VIPs who spectate the games from behind glass and gilded masks. Season three saw the group exerting a more active influence on the competition. Early on, they disguise themselves as pink guards and massacre the unfortunate losers durin

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Why English doesn't use accents

news.ycombinator.com Colin Gorrie 2026-02-01 23:18:26

Portrait of Jean Miélot (after 1456), Jean le Tavernier Canterbury, AD 1105 The cold of the stone floor in the scriptorium creeps up through Godwin’s boots. He pays it no mind. Before him lies a copy of the Chronicle, just arrived from the old capital of Winchester. In it is written the history of the English people. His people. Today, his job is to make another copy. No difficult task for Godwin, or any monk. But Abbot Robert will want to inspect the work before vespers. Abbot Robert. A No

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How to get started with Old English poetry

news.ycombinator.com Colin Gorrie 2026-01-30 17:56:15

The Shipwreck (1805), Joseph Mallord William Turner Most people who know anything at all about Old English poetry will be aware of the existence of Beowulf. Perhaps they will even have read it. But far fewer will be aware of the 90% of Old English poetry that is not Beowulf. It’s a shame, because the back catalogue of Old English poetry — the deep cuts — are well worth reading. And, in general, these poems are much easier (and shorter) to read than Beowulf. The entire corpus of surviving poet

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The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era

news.ycombinator.com The Greg Technology Blog 2026-02-10 15:00:24

Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.” Glitch was an idealistic place where people gathered and made sites, were inspired by other people’s sites and remixed them, and generally enjoyed themselves. Of course a site like that takes money to run, of course you need people to run it - it was specifically better because of the people that ran it. And I can only be very sympathetic to the fact that it cost money - that it only

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Grade 2 Braille

Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch arch

Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Promises New Songs Will Hit All the Right Notes

Morse Code Translator

Does anyone still use Morse code?

Some new Pixel 10 phones are failing with a screen of colorful snow

The Grammar According to West

2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this

A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

NotebookLM’s Video Overview feature now supports 80 languages

1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)

Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life (2015)

Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life

Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results

You know more Finnish than you think

The Bluesky Dictionary

How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets

Org tutorials

UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold

A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

Introduction to Indian English

‘Squid Game’ VIP Actor Speaks Out on That Awful English Voiceover

Why English doesn't use accents

How to get started with Old English poetry

The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era

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