Hacker News

This is a compilation of Hacker News from May 18, 2025, created so that you do not miss the top rated topics. Subscribe to the Telegram channel @YHackerNews.

Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
371 points | 123 comments

Ditching Obsidian and building my own
417 points | 468 comments

$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener
303 points | 140 comments

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles
560 points | 182 comments

Spaced Repetition Memory System
256 points | 35 comments

Building my childhood dream PC
151 points | 69 comments


What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
275 points | 530 comments

Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)
199 points | 114 comments

KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called "Karton"
153 points | 94 comments

K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers
121 points | 54 comments

The Fall of Roam
117 points | 63 comments

Show HN: Buckaroo – The data table UI for Notebooks
92 points | 8 comments

I built a platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways
86 points | 25 comments

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance
80 points | 15 comments

Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s "Constructor Theory of Time"
76 points | 10 comments

Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations
64 points | 18 comments

O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups
64 points | 61 comments

Magic Leap One Bootloader Exploit
62 points | 4 comments

California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection
56 points | 57 comments

Show HN: Model2vec-Rs – Fast Static Text Embeddings in Rust
52 points | 8 comments

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I
49 points | 36 comments

The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
43 points | 48 comments

How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
42 points | 4 comments

The RISC OS GUI
42 points | 12 comments

Pluto Flyover from New Horizons
40 points | 11 comments

Dezyne Programming Language
40 points | 5 comments

Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite
39 points | 17 comments

An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen?
35 points | 35 comments

Show HN: Racketmeter – Measure Badminton String Tension Using Sound Frequency
32 points | 12 comments

An Uplifting Origin of 86 (2001)
30 points | 10 comments

AI Won't Kill Junior Devs – But Your Hiring Strategy Might
29 points | 33 comments

The Journal of Imaginary Research
28 points | 2 comments

Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars
26 points | 37 comments

Measure EEG with Arduino
22 points | 11 comments

Show HN: Stack Error – ergonomic error handling for Rust
22 points | 6 comments

Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL
18 points | 8 comments

The Economist's global rip off
14 points | 3 comments

Telegram CEO: French intelligence head asked me to ban Romanian conservatives
9 points | 2 comments

Green Fabrication of Sulfonium-Containing Bismuth Materials for X-Ray Detection
8 points | 2 comments

Show HN: Vibe Coded GitHub PR Bot for Integrating a GitHub Action
5 points | discuss

The X220 ThinkPad Is the Best Laptop in the World
4 points | discuss