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Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uK4x
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23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uJtB
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European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uJBb
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Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S. (Score: 153+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uGKn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uGKn
I’ve been a remote SWE since the pandemic and truly appreciate its flexibilities and time saved from not commuting. Lately, friends and close ones have been asking me for advice on finding remote roles. I shared my remote company spreadsheet with them, but realized it was a rather manual process to scroll and refresh each company’s career page for new postings.
So I put together a centralized job board aggregator that lists the best paying SWE jobs in one place, starting with the U.S. and 14 companies. The way it works is via a cron job that runs daily in the afternoon to pull the latest job postings from each company and updates the website with the new listings.
Some other key features are
1. Quickly see which companies are actively hiring, e.g. Coinbase currently has the most openings
2. Filter by years of experience or companies to find suitable matches
3. Easily see estimated salary and posted date
If you're also on the hunt for the next remote SWE role, I hope this site helps streamline your job search and would appreciate any feedback and suggestions. Thanks!
Home page: https://www.remoteswe.fyi
FAQ page with additional context: https://www.remoteswe.fyi/faq
KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton” (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uGwS
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Don't Guess My Language (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uHB3
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“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look” (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uGJz
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New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ux4d
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Building my childhood dream PC (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFA2
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France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uGwr
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Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFey
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Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uwBV
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Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFKt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uFKt
I built this project as a way to learn more about NLP by applying it to something weird and unsolved.
The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th-century book written in an unknown script. No one’s been able to translate it, and many think it’s a hoax, a cipher, or a constructed language. I wasn’t trying to decode it — I just wanted to see: does it behave like a structured language?
I stripped a handful of common suffix-like endings (aiin, dy, etc.) to isolate what looked like root forms. I know that’s a strong assumption — I call it out directly in the repo — but it helped clarify the clustering. From there, I used SBERT embeddings and KMeans to group similar roots, inferred POS-like roles based on position and frequency, and built a Markov transition matrix to visualize cluster-to-cluster flow.
It’s not translation. It’s not decryption. It’s structural modeling — and it revealed some surprisingly consistent syntax across the manuscript, especially when broken out by section (Botanical, Biological, etc.).
GitHub repo: https://github.com/brianmg/voynich-nlp-analysis
Write-up: https://brig90.substack.com/p/modeling-the-voynich-manuscrip...
I’m new to the NLP space, so I’m sure there are things I got wrong — but I’d love feedback from people who’ve worked with structured language modeling or weird edge cases like this.
Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFbZ
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AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uEkb
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ClawPDF – Open-Source Virtual/Network PDF Printer with OCR and Image Support (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uHUG
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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uJDA
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (🔥 Score: 167+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uJCK
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Zod 4 (🔥 Score: 167+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uJtc
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Side projects I've built since 2009 (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uHvV
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InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFgi
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What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015) (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFGZ
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Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com) (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFZA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uFZA
We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).
This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast.
We’d love your thoughts and feedback.
Spaced Repetition Memory System (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFHb
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$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFSG
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyAt
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Ditching Obsidian and building my own (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uFMa
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Experts have it easy (2024) (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uEt7
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Directory of MCP Servers (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDQ2
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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDwH
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