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I made a talking banana

Useless Duck Company · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Embedded systems & DIY electronicsLanguage & linguisticsFree speech, censorship & civil liberties

What it is

A maker builds a talking banana that reads YouTube and Twitch comments aloud on stream, then fights viewers who abuse it with profanity. He ends up building a pronunciation-based filter to catch bad words.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN shares it as a funny, technical story about phonetic profanity filtering, relevant to Soundex and content moderation threads.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “terrific little video about the battle between him and his viewers”

    Funny, technical tale of viewers abusing a talking banana bot

    hbosch, 2018-06 · Strong recommendation · in “How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children”

  2. “you will enjoy Talking Banana Twitch ban story by Useless Duck Company”

    Talking banana Twitch story involving a phonetic profanity filter

    rasz, 2018-05 · Recommendation · in “Soundex”

  3. “He made a filter that did analysis of the pronunciation of the messages that were being sent.”

    Builds a pronunciation-based filter for incoming messages

    tonfreed, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “The naughty username checking system used by Twitch”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: twitch, arduino, phonetic filter, moderation, maker humor

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