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Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I built for my 4-year-old

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5 points·by melvinmelih·3개월 전·2 comments

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melvinmelih
·3개월 전·discuss
That's the only trade-off, the app bundle is about 340MB for the first download but once you have it on your phone it will always work offline and load all assets instantly.
melvinmelih
·6개월 전·discuss
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melvinmelih
·6개월 전·discuss
“Sir, you have the vote of every thinking person.” “That’s not enough — I need a majority.” — Adlai Stevenson
melvinmelih
·6개월 전·discuss
Why not build a receipt scanner then?
melvinmelih
·6개월 전·discuss
I’m in Colombia right now and they actually have a great food labeling system. It just warns you if a product contains too much sugar, salt, additives etc, without trying to score. Whereas the European labels give you a false sense that everything is nutritious.
melvinmelih
·9개월 전·discuss
> because they are trained on multilingual data

But they were not trained on government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.
melvinmelih
·9개월 전·discuss
> After all, it's not like they could possibly identify every single living person and tie them to their likeness.

Wasn’t he literally scanning eye balls a couple years ago?
melvinmelih
·9개월 전·discuss
I recently had to build a production-ready workflow in N8N - it ended up being a spaghetti flow of custom code nodes and custom http requests (because none of the provided connectors did exactly what we needed) that I was left wondering if this wouldn't be easier to code up in Cursor.