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Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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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)
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AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Mystical (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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If nothing is curated, how do we find things (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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Dead Stars Don't Radiate (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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MCP: An in-depth introduction (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Push Ifs Up and Fors Down (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
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Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful (❄️ Score: 154+ in 2 days)
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Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Ditching Obsidian and building my own (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Experts have it easy (2024) (Score: 152+ in 14 hours)
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Directory of MCP Servers (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Catalog of Novel Operating Systems (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
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A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant (Score: 151+ in 19 hours)
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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Rustls Server-Side Performance (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Pathfinding (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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