top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-18

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

https://domenic.me/fsrs/

1 year ago

France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@codegouvfr/114529954373492878

1 year ago

InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/

1 year ago

Ditching Obsidian and building my own

https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms

1 year ago

Building my own solar power system

https://medium.com/@joe_5312/pg-e-sucks-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-building-my-own-solar-system-acf0c9f03f3b

1 year ago

Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

https://github.com/brianmg/voynich-nlp-analysis

1 year ago

Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene

https://iquilezles.org/articles/

1 year ago

$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)

https://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20240718.html

1 year ago

What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/comment/cnnmca8/

1 year ago

Spaced repetition memory system (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_memory_system

1 year ago

Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

https://github.com/skift-org/vaev

1 year ago

Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions

https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim

1 year ago

Experts have it easy (2024)

https://boydkane.com/essays/experts

1 year ago

KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-is-finally-getting-a-native-virtual-machine-manager-called-karton/

1 year ago

Building my childhood dream PC

https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/index.html

1 year ago

Understanding the Go Scheduler

https://nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/go-scheduler.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN

https://app.camelai.com/log-in?next=/hn/

1 year ago

Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel

https://github.com/parsaghaffari/browserbee

1 year ago

Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/mexican-navy-ship-hits-brooklyn-bridge-during-promotional-tour

1 year ago

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-warnings-delayed-because

1 year ago

K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers

https://www.kscale.dev/

1 year ago

Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021)

https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account

1 year ago

The Fall of Roam (2022)

https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam

1 year ago

Google Logo Ligature Bug

https://www.jefftk.com/p/google-logo-ligature-bug

1 year ago

Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

https://rakhim.exotext.com/thank-you-google-for-breaking-my-youtube-addiction

1 year ago

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo

1 year ago

Hyper Typing

https://pscanf.com/s/341/

1 year ago

Paper Mechanisms

https://cutfoldtemplates.com

1 year ago

Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/05/15/crypto-has-become-the-ultimate-swamp-asset

1 year ago

What Is the Difference Between a Block, a Proc, and a Lambda in Ruby? (2013)

https://blog.awaxman.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-block-a-proc-and-a-lambda-in-ruby

1 year ago

Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s “Constructor Theory of Time”

https://github.com/gvelesandro/constructor-theory-simulator

1 year ago

GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down

https://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/safety-ops-regulation/gps-needs-toughen-or-get-trampled-down

1 year ago

Pglocks.org

https://pglocks.org/

1 year ago

Confessions about my smart home

https://frenck.dev/confessions-about-my-smart-home/

1 year ago

GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California's EV Mandate

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/california-ev-mandate-auto-industry-64708033

1 year ago

Beta.weather.gov

https://beta.weather.gov/

1 year ago

California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection (2020)

https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates

1 year ago

How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007)

https://www.filibeto.org/aduritz/truetrue/e10000/how-e10k-wasborn.html

1 year ago

An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen?

https://default.blog/p/an-efilist-just-bombed-a-fertility

1 year ago

The RISC OS GUI

https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/

1 year ago

Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368

1 year ago

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html

1 year ago

Pluto Flyover from New Horizons

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250518.html

1 year ago

US loses last perfect credit rating amid rising debt

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0xk4ld1o

1 year ago

Memetics – A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (2006) [pdf]

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA507172.pdf

1 year ago

The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated

https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2025/2025-05-15-the-effect-of-physical-fitness-on-mortality-is-overestimated

1 year ago

Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authentication/

1 year ago

Show HN: Model2vec-Rs – Fast Static Text Embeddings in Rust

https://github.com/MinishLab/model2vec-rs

1 year ago

AI Won't Kill Junior Devs – But Your Hiring Strategy Might

https://addyo.substack.com/p/ai-wont-kill-junior-devs-but-your

1 year ago

Craft Basic (Windows 95 and up)

https://www.lucidapogee.com/?page=craftbasic

1 year ago