TItinus_hn·Nov 30, 2022
As far as I could tell this is the engine powering this:
https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian-dev/
It’s compiled c++ running using wasm.
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marian-dev
Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ - development repository
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3Mentions
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What it is
Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ - development repository
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
- browsermt/marian-dev · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by week3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2022-06-02 19:01:41 UTC to 2022-11-30 00:29:57 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30 | 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 6 | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13 | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 20 | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 27 | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 4 | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 11 | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 18 | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8 | 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 15 | 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 22 | 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 29 | 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5 | 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 19 | 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 26 | 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 10 | 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 17 | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 24 | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 14 | 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 21 | 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThis is the underlying translation engine:
https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian-dev
And the browser fork of it:
https://github.com/browsermt/marian-dev
In Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to FirefoxA fork of marian-dev[1] is the underlying machine-translation engine:
- https://github.com/browsermt/marian-dev
Development of higher-level code wrapping around marian-dev make suitable for the browser-extension happens at:
- https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator
Some of the WebAssembly optimizations are available in bergamot-translator/marian-dev. Rest are in Firefox source-code. A start point could be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720747.
Extension code is open-source, and linked already in other comments:
- https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations
[1] https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian-dev
In Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot