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I'm going to have to create a Slack bot to pipe whatever I type through it.", "excerpt": "I love it! I'm going to have to create a Slack bot to pipe whatever I type through it. In: Management's stupidity gives me a rash on my nutsack Out: The current lack of strategic alignment within leadership is creating some significant friction in my day-to-day workflow. Oddly enough, when I add a full stop to the input it switches to: Output: The current leadership's lack of strategic vision is creating significant ", "context": "", "use_case": "LinkedIn Speak translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 794409776, "item_id": 49650611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650611", "by": "prism56", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm more bewildered that they've limited our service as paying customers, restricting Kagi Translate.", "excerpt": "I'm more bewildered that they've limited our service as paying customers, restricting Kagi Translate. They have, however, not given any information on what our \"free\" limit will be. I feel like it'll be quite restrictive. I use Translate maybe once every two to three months, but for those one or two days or a week I use it a lot. I'm not signing up for the translate service simultaneously just for that.", "context": "paying Kagi customer", "use_case": "translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi Translate Is Back"}]}], "who": [{"by": "friedtofu", "context": "Kagi pro subscriber since March 2024", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647729", "date": "2026-09-10"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["translation", "text translation", "translate to linkedin-speak", "linkedin speak translation"], "compared": [{"slug": "google-translate", "name": "Google Translate", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "kagi", "name": "Kagi", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643575", "title": "Kagi Translate Is Back", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154", "title": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268564", "title": "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006195", "title": "Back to Kagi", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703", "title": "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 794409776, "item_id": 49650611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650611", "by": "prism56", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm more bewildered that they've limited our service as paying customers, restricting Kagi Translate.", "excerpt": "I'm more bewildered that they've limited our service as paying customers, restricting Kagi Translate. 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I'm going to have to create a Slack bot to pipe whatever I type through it.", "excerpt": "I love it! I'm going to have to create a Slack bot to pipe whatever I type through it. In: Management's stupidity gives me a rash on my nutsack Out: The current lack of strategic alignment within leadership is creating some significant friction in my day-to-day workflow. Oddly enough, when I add a full stop to the input it switches to: Output: The current leadership's lack of strategic vision is creating significant ", "context": "", "use_case": "LinkedIn Speak translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"}]}