Yes and no, depending on your metric. If you look at it from the "hobbyist does cool hobby thing, gets a lot of upvotes" then yes. But if you look at it from the "minority does X cool thing" then the answer is no.

I think there is some novelty that gender is being wrapped up into this. But I don't think a man doing the same thing would be completely ignored.

I'm in the middle of studying a foreign language, so I am quite sympathetic to the "must do something every day" challenge. Man or woman it's quite commendable, no matter how small the feat.

I didn't notice person was women until I started reading posts in HN. Why bring gender when others are discussing method of learning?