Hacker GitHub

← All repos

hiAndrewQuinn/tsk

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 31 Go

Taskusanakirja. A tiny, fast, portable Finnish-English dictionary, which searches as you type.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2025-02-22 · latest 2025-08-12

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2025 (7)
20082026
  1. …words locally and call out for the next 1.5 million, which are statistically extremely rare. [1]: https://github.com/hiandrewquinn/tsk [2]: https://taskusanakirja.com/ (offline for now until I get Digicert to certify my downloads wholesome…
    comment by hiAndrewQuinn · 2025-08-12 · in StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
  2. …feel clunkier than it should. Considering adding a 50ms denounce just to hide my shame... [1]: https://github.com/hiandrewquinn/tsk
  3. …I'm using JSONL to bake in the data for my single binary Finnish to English pocket dictionary ( https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk ). It just makes things like data transformations so easy, especially with jq.
    comment by hiAndrewQuinn · 2025-04-27 · in TPSV, an Alternative to TSV (and CSV)
  4. …hard drives unnecessarily (though not much else). In that case I reached for Go, and ended up with https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk powered by a big fat trie under the hood. Obviously tries aren't exactly groundbreaking technology, but…
  5. …to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general: * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go,…
    comment by hiAndrewQuinn · 2025-02-24 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
  6. …the ~30 MB exe to >100. To be fair, I have negative interest in monetizing this kind of thing. [1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk
    comment by hiAndrewQuinn · 2025-02-22 · in 20 years working on the same software product