🗣️ Post 1: Show HN: Nani? – AI translator that teaches you while translating

As posted by: catnose  |  🔥 Points: 3

https://nani.now/en

💬 Summary

Hi HN,

I made Nani!?, an AI-powered translator that not only translates your text but also teaches you better ways to say things as you go.

I started this as a small personal tool, then spent over six months rebuilding and polishing it into a product others can use.

Unlike DeepL or Google Translate, which give you a single, fixed translation, Nani!? tries to teach you as it translates. It might say things like "Here’s another way to say that" or "This would sound more natural in a casual chat."

My goal was to make a translator that feels more like a friendly teacher than a black box.

You can ask ChatGPT to do similar things, but I found it a bit tedious to keep typing prompts, copying text, playing pronunciations, or switching models for every translation. (Usually I just want a quick, natural answer without "Thinking" mode.)

So I built a web app, plus Mac / Windows versions you can trigger instantly with a shortcut.

The name Nani!? comes from the Japanese word なに!? ("What!?"), which has been getting more familiar overseas through anime and manga. I’m Japanese, love manga, and even draw as a hobby, so the name felt like a fun fit.

If you ever need translations (and want to learn a bit along the way), I’d love for you to give it a try and share your feedback.

🗣️ Post 2: Show HN: World Amazing Framework: Like Django for Civilization

As posted by: mnm  |  🔥 Points: 3

https://worldamazing.org/

💬 Summary

Any initial thoughts?

This framework is meant to be a tool for construction, so if you want to play around with it for creating potential specific implementations, you can drop the contents of the website, the GitHub README, and the entire overview.md into an AI chat, and that should be enough to use the framework, at least conceptually.

Would y'all want me to pre-prime a chat in Google AI Studio with the full context of the plan and some basic direction for discourse? I can share a link to a ready-to-go environment.

The core documentation should answer most mechanical questions. And if you feed the docs into an AI chat, you can ask it any question you may have, or to simply ask it to explain something in different ways, or hypothesize solutions to any world issue, either systemic or regional.

Gemini Pro 2.5 can take the full doc in one prompt, and its ability to co-create ideas is remarkable. I've been using it mostly through the AI Studio interface. Much of the overview is as much my work as it is a synthesis of my collaboration with Gemini Pro 2.5, ChatGPT-4o, and some early contributions from GPT-4 about a year ago.

Before LLMs, I was building out pamphlet-style pages on a website (that are up at whomanatee.org, which is the base wrapper implementation of the framework), and I was planning to use them as talking points. I was anticipating that much of the deep thinking would have to happen in slow, public discourse. With LLMs, I've been able to stress-test these ideas from every possible angle, using any past event or theory to see if the framework could withstand scrutiny.

At one point, a model argued that Adam Smith would have rejected this idea as fantasy. So I worked with it to develop an economic plan that "synthetic Adam" praised. It's incredible that we now have the ability to get synthesized thoughts from almost any perspective. You could ask it, "What would Barack Obama think of this plan? And using the framework, what would be your response to any hesitations he may have?" And it responds with incredible analysis, synthesis, and feedback.

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