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Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
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It Awaits Your Experiments (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Type-constrained code generation with language models (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
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Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6upPT
Hey HN, we’re Tyrone and Guang, founders of Miyagi Labs (https://miyagilabs.ai), an AI-powered education platform that transforms educational YouTube videos into interactive courses. It helps you learn better through active practice and personalized feedback.
We use LLMs to automatically generate quizzes, practice questions, and real-time feedback from any educational video or resource—turning passive watching into active learning. Here’s a short demo: https://youtu.be/alO7FaorHOY.
Improving education has always been tricky. Bloom’s 2-sigma problem (showing that a high-quality personal tutor is far more effective than conventional methods) has persisted, even as technology has advanced.
We met at MIT as CS majors and have always been passionate about education. Over the years, we’ve become teachers and experts in subjects like chess, algorithms, math, languages, and ninja warrior. A common theme was that we both heavily relied on YouTube to learn.
YouTube has incredible content for learning pretty much anything, but it’s buried in a lot of distractions. Also, passively watching videos is far less effective than taking notes, asking questions, and doing practice problems, which is what we aim to do with Miyagi Labs.
Our solution is essentially a multi-step function that takes in a YouTube playlist (or list of any resources) and outputs an entire course with summaries, questions, answers, and more. The pipeline is roughly: video/resource —> transcript/text —> chunks —> summary and question —> answers to questions, with some other features along the way.
We mostly use prompting and different models at each step to make the course as useful as possible. Certain topics require more practice problems vs. comprehension, and we’d use reasoning models for highly technical subjects.
We launched about three months ago and currently have 400+ courses and partnerships with some businesses and awesome creators. Some of our popular courses include 3Blue1Brown’s linear algebra course, a botany course on plants and ecology, and YC’s How to Start a Startup series.
Our product resembles classical MOOC-style course platforms in terms of UI, but is more interactive. It’s really easy to ask a question or receive custom feedback compared to a static course on Coursera. It’s also comparable to AI tutor sites, but we try to build more of a community and require less activation energy as a learner. We’re basically betting that AI can hugely improve education, but that students still want to learn from their favorite creators and want baseline shared resources for standard topics that are then augmented with personalized features.
You can try it here: https://miyagilabs.ai (no login required for most courses—but if you sign up you can also create your own course).
We’d love your feedback on what kinds of videos/resources you’d like to learn from, what’s missing from current learning tools, and if you know any creators or educators who would like to collaborate. Happy to hear any feedback and answer any questions!
Dusk OS (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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Odin: A programming language made for me (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Plain Vanilla Web – Guide for de-frameworking yourself (🔥 Score: 166+ in 2 hours)
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In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (❄️ Score: 154+ in 4 days)
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'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry (Score: 151+ in 21 hours)
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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
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RPG in a Box (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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Flattening Rust’s learning curve (Score: 156+ in 7 hours)
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I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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PDF to Text, a challenging problem (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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How to start a school with your friends (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Dotless Domains (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Lazarus Release 4.0 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Leaving Google (Score: 154+ in 11 hours)
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Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
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Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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