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Anki is a smart spaced repetition flashcard program

27 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 3 stories, 24 comments · first 2013-01-11 · latest 2026-05-31

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  1. …to move to Kotlin multiplatform in the near future (mostly for test speed improvements). [0] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto [1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android-Backend/blob/a0428... [2]…
  2. …be willing to support that with our time and financially. [0] https://www.ankihub.net/about-us [1] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/pull/3232 [2] https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html [3] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks
  3. The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default ( https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616 ), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution. It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience…
    comment by Shank · 2026-02-03 · in Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
  4. Try docker: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/docs/syncserver#...
    comment by david_allison · 2026-02-02 · in Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
  5. FSRS is not a default yet: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616
    comment by david_allison · 2025-05-18 · in Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
  6. …Tried any of the below? AnkiConnect (HTTP API): https://git.foosoft.net/alex/anki-connect Rust: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/rslib via Protobuf: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto/anki Rough DB Schema…
  7. And here is the source code for Anki: https://github.com/ankitects/anki If you want to convince people to use your spaced repetition software over Anki, you need to tell us what's so wrong with Anki that can't be fixed with plugins and…
  8. This support landed late last year as part of https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/tag/23.10 > .apkg imports are able to merge changed notetypes, and can exclude scheduling data
  9. …offers the $25 iOS app as one of the download options. In what way was Anki hijacked here? [1] https://github.com/ankitects/anki [2] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
  10. …changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378 Nowadays, the Anki version in Ubuntu is from 2019! The snaps are also hopelessly outdated.
    comment by nairboon · 2024-01-28 · in Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
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    Anki 23.10 Released
    story by siraben · 2023-11-03 · 2 comments
  12. …except that, to my surprise it seems the Anki developers have also decided life is too short https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5e0a761b875fff4c9e4...
    comment by zahllos · 2023-08-14 · in Software Engineering at Google (2020)
  13. Not sure where you found a subscription to Anki, but it's free and open source: https://github.com/ankitects/anki The iOS app is a one-time payment though. This article is definitely not written with an unfamiliar reader in mind though,…
    comment by Ardon · 2023-03-18 · in Anki-fy your life
  14. Anki is an open source app: https://github.com/ankitects/anki Only the iOS version costs money, which is probably their only revenue stream.
    comment by magnio · 2023-03-18 · in Anki-fy your life
  15. …go the bazel route... recently found a long good explanation why anki switched away from bazel: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5e0a761b875fff4c9e4... I'd love to have cachable builds but I wonder how much effort it takes to…
    comment by nisa · 2022-12-19 · in What's New in Bazel 6.0
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    Anki released with Apple Silicon support
    story by katsura · 2022-04-10 · 0 comments
  17. …There's a GH issue that was opened and closed by the developer because, well, it works for them. https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378 Since then Anki has been broken on Nix and the only way to get it working is to either run the…
    comment by throwaway22032 · 2022-01-25 · in The Curse of NixOS
  18. ▲ 3
    Ask HN: Best practices for creating dynamic SQL Tables?
    story by pandatigox · 2021-09-09 · 5 comments
  19. https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/main/LICENSE I'm pretty sure Anki is FOSS, though perhaps you just don't like the AGPL?
  20. …https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/english/ol/sm... Anki uses a modified version: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/sch... Notes: https://github.com/Arthur-Milchior/anki/blob/commented/docum...
    comment by david_allison · 2020-09-22 · in What’s the Algorithm for Spaced Repetition?
  21. Not sure, but Anki is open source, so you might have some luck there. https://github.com/ankitects/anki
    comment by enchiridion · 2020-09-21 · in What’s the Algorithm for Spaced Repetition?
  22. It's in the process of being migrated to a Python/Rust hybrid. Most of the backend is now rust-based: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/master/rslib
    comment by DAllison · 2020-06-23 · in Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
  23. …type hinted python3 code, you don't even need to know python to understand big chunk of it. 1 - https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/car...
  24. …seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead? https://github.com/ankitects/anki
  25. Is this the one? https://github.com/dae/anki
  26. Anki is AGPL. https://github.com/dae/anki
    comment by adrianN · 2017-06-22 · in Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS
  27. Anki - https://github.com/dae/anki It's obviously not as full featured as Rosetta Stone, nor does it come with courses, nor does it use voice recognition - but it does rely on basically the same research into memory and I've had a lot more…