# Ancient Library

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Ancient Library and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for its flawless Greek and Latin texts, click-to-parse words and attractive layout. Critics say it is barebones, buggy and needs polish, with unreliable translations.

## What people warn about

- Unreliable LLM translations (2 comments): "Ancient Library is some vibecoded alternative that the LLM translation it uses will be incorrect." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217721)) "translations seem a bit sketchy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215284))
- Buggy word parsing pop-up (2 comments): "Apart from the UI around the word parsing pop-up being kind of buggy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219871)) "it's not immediately obvious how to close a pop-up again" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216145))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ancient Library", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ancient-library/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).