I have tried out two different Aikido dojos this week. Emerald City Aikido and Puget Sound Aikikai (I live in Seattle WA). Both differ from one another a fair bit in terms of the \"feel\" of the classroom environment and instruction. Emerald City Aikido was much more casual and had a comfortable enough environment that I had a good dialog forming between myself and the sensei. The other dojo was much more intense. It and its students seemed much more focused and serious and I never really felt comfortable enough with the teacher to really discuss my form or the techniques. Also Puget Sound Aikikai is affiliated with the USAF whereas the other is an independent dojo.
At this point I'm heavily confused. Both seem great but in different ways. Any suggestions?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Ask HN: Choosing an Aikido Dojo (Seattle)"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_darkxanthos","story_1892844","ask_hn"],"author":"darkxanthos","children":[1892866,1892867],"created_at":"2010-11-11T04:04:57Z","created_at_i":1289448297,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"1892844","points":2,"story_id":1892844,"story_text":"I am learning Aikido for exercise, self-defense, and as a study in philosophy.
I have tried out two different Aikido dojos this week. Emerald City Aikido and Puget Sound Aikikai (I live in Seattle WA). Both differ from one another a fair bit in terms of the \"feel\" of the classroom environment and instruction. Emerald City Aikido was much more casual and had a comfortable enough environment that I had a good dialog forming between myself and the sensei. The other dojo was much more intense. It and its students seemed much more focused and serious and I never really felt comfortable enough with the teacher to really discuss my form or the techniques. Also Puget Sound Aikikai is affiliated with the USAF whereas the other is an independent dojo.
At this point I'm heavily confused. Both seem great but in different ways. Any suggestions?","title":"Ask HN: Choosing an Aikido Dojo (Seattle)","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:24:36Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"booffa"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["emerald","ai"],"value":"Meowth GBA Translator is an open-source, AI-powered tool that automates translation of Pok\u00e9mon GBA ROMs (including binary hacks like FireRed, Emerald, Ruby/Sapphire, and Mystery Dungeon). Powered by LLMs (supports OpenAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, Groq, and 10+ others), it extracts text, translates intelligently while preserving codes and context, then rebuilds the ROM \u2014 all in one click via a friendly GUI or simple CLI command.\nSupports 6+ languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) with optimized prompts and smart font patching. Focus on gameplay mods, let AI handle the words. Free, MIT-licensed, cross-platform."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["ai"],"value":"Show HN: AI-powered one-click translator for Pok\u00e9mon GBA ROM hacks"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/Olcmyk/Meowth-GBA-Translator"}},"_tags":["story","author_booffa","story_47347680","show_hn"],"author":"booffa","children":[47347747,47347798,47348943,47385420],"created_at":"2026-03-12T07:45:32Z","created_at_i":1773301532,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"47347680","points":4,"story_id":47347680,"story_text":"Meowth GBA Translator is an open-source, AI-powered tool that automates translation of Pok\u00e9mon GBA ROMs (including binary hacks like FireRed, Emerald, Ruby/Sapphire, and Mystery Dungeon). Powered by LLMs (supports OpenAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, Groq, and 10+ others), it extracts text, translates intelligently while preserving codes and context, then rebuilds the ROM \u2014 all in one click via a friendly GUI or simple CLI command.\nSupports 6+ languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) with optimized prompts and smart font patching. Focus on gameplay mods, let AI handle the words. Free, MIT-licensed, cross-platform.","title":"Show HN: AI-powered one-click translator for Pok\u00e9mon GBA ROM hacks","updated_at":"2026-03-20T08:08:09Z","url":"https://github.com/Olcmyk/Meowth-GBA-Translator"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kmgrassi"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["emerald","ai"],"value":"Hey HN folks!
Emerald founder here - I\u2019m a dev, pediatrician and father. I\u2019ve been thinking about this idea for a long time. I recently sold my last company [0] and this seems like a good time to try something a little more risky but that I\u2019m passionate about.
In the distant past most kids worked on farms from a young age (I live in upstate NY and families with farms still have their kids work from a young age). With industrialization we got away from child labor because children were being exploited and exposed to dangerous factory environments.
With Emerald, I\u2019d like to challenge the notion that \u201cchild labor\u201d is necessarily a bad thing. As a pediatrician and parent I can tell you that American children could benefit from a dose of the real world. There are many important benefits to having the responsibilities of a job at a young age. I outlined several of these below.
The idea behind Emerald is to use the loophole that kids can work for their parents. We are going to create LLCs and bank accounts (will probably use Stipe Atlas and Mercury bank) for each family and then contract work through that LLC. This way kids can work on projects, earn money and gain experience.
Emerald will be a marketplace similar to Fiverr or Upwork. Companies or people who need work done can post the spec and then will be matched with a workforce who can complete the work.
The main difference will be that Emerald will be much more hands on during the work completion. Instead of individual freelancers bidding for work Emerald will construct teams of youth (prob 2-5 per team - maybe more?) with an adult mentor. The mentor will be paid and will oversee the work. The youth team will then collaborate to complete work. Lots of unknowns here and we will have to iterate on the best process.
There will also be extensive safety tooling and oversight. We plan to require all conversations to occur on-platform (Slack like chat), set time limits and give parents dashboards/controls.
The obvious first type of work to be done are things that teens are good at - content editing, content creation and software dev. Although I\u2019d like to hear other ideas for work that teens might be well suited for.
Benefits:\n- Earn money\n- Learn time management\n- Learn how to work with a team\n- Learn real world software development or tech skills\n- Start creating a resume and list of references
Risks:\n- Time commitment \n- Increase screen time. Kids already have too much screen time\n- Shorten childhood - we should let \u201ckids be kids\u201d for longer\n- Exploitation - companies taking advantage of inexperienced workers (paying less, etc)\n- Cause more work for parents (monitoring, etc)\n- Parents masquerading as their kids and doing the work (I don\u2019t know why they\u2019d do this but figure I\u2019d list it)
Questions:\n- What are some additional risks?\n- What are additional benefits?\n- Are there examples of programs like this out there? If so, what are the learnings?
Side note on AI\nI\u2019d like to avoid the \u201cAI will take all these jobs anyway\u201d rabbit hole. I\u2019d like to assume we can find something productive for kids (or any of us) to do.
Who I\u2019m looking for\n- Educators or people who have worked with teens on longer-term group projects - learnings from these projects\n- People interested in being mentors for teens on Emerald - will be paid positions\n- People with children who are interested in the initial pilot - no dates or commitment are set yet. Just if you are remotely interested.\n- Companies/people who are interested in submitting projects that they need completed. We can help you scope the project so it can be amorphous.
This is VERY early for Emerald. We haven\u2019t built any tech yet (aside from the very basic landing page). If anyone has interest in this idea feel free to reach out - my HN handle at gmail.
Thanks for reading this far!
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Emerald founder here - I\u2019m a dev, pediatrician and father. I\u2019ve been thinking about this idea for a long time. I recently sold my last company [0] and this seems like a good time to try something a little more risky but that I\u2019m passionate about.
In the distant past most kids worked on farms from a young age (I live in upstate NY and families with farms still have their kids work from a young age). With industrialization we got away from child labor because children were being exploited and exposed to dangerous factory environments.
With Emerald, I\u2019d like to challenge the notion that \u201cchild labor\u201d is necessarily a bad thing. As a pediatrician and parent I can tell you that American children could benefit from a dose of the real world. There are many important benefits to having the responsibilities of a job at a young age. I outlined several of these below.
The idea behind Emerald is to use the loophole that kids can work for their parents. We are going to create LLCs and bank accounts (will probably use Stipe Atlas and Mercury bank) for each family and then contract work through that LLC. This way kids can work on projects, earn money and gain experience.
Emerald will be a marketplace similar to Fiverr or Upwork. Companies or people who need work done can post the spec and then will be matched with a workforce who can complete the work.
The main difference will be that Emerald will be much more hands on during the work completion. Instead of individual freelancers bidding for work Emerald will construct teams of youth (prob 2-5 per team - maybe more?) with an adult mentor. The mentor will be paid and will oversee the work. The youth team will then collaborate to complete work. Lots of unknowns here and we will have to iterate on the best process.
There will also be extensive safety tooling and oversight. We plan to require all conversations to occur on-platform (Slack like chat), set time limits and give parents dashboards/controls.
The obvious first type of work to be done are things that teens are good at - content editing, content creation and software dev. Although I\u2019d like to hear other ideas for work that teens might be well suited for.
Benefits:\n- Earn money\n- Learn time management\n- Learn how to work with a team\n- Learn real world software development or tech skills\n- Start creating a resume and list of references
Risks:\n- Time commitment \n- Increase screen time. Kids already have too much screen time\n- Shorten childhood - we should let \u201ckids be kids\u201d for longer\n- Exploitation - companies taking advantage of inexperienced workers (paying less, etc)\n- Cause more work for parents (monitoring, etc)\n- Parents masquerading as their kids and doing the work (I don\u2019t know why they\u2019d do this but figure I\u2019d list it)
Questions:\n- What are some additional risks?\n- What are additional benefits?\n- Are there examples of programs like this out there? If so, what are the learnings?
Side note on AI\nI\u2019d like to avoid the \u201cAI will take all these jobs anyway\u201d rabbit hole. I\u2019d like to assume we can find something productive for kids (or any of us) to do.
Who I\u2019m looking for\n- Educators or people who have worked with teens on longer-term group projects - learnings from these projects\n- People interested in being mentors for teens on Emerald - will be paid positions\n- People with children who are interested in the initial pilot - no dates or commitment are set yet. Just if you are remotely interested.\n- Companies/people who are interested in submitting projects that they need completed. We can help you scope the project so it can be amorphous.
This is VERY early for Emerald. We haven\u2019t built any tech yet (aside from the very basic landing page). If anyone has interest in this idea feel free to reach out - my HN handle at gmail.
Thanks for reading this far!
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