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