top 50% hacker news stories for today

Show HN: Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch

https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript

4 hours ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

America's College Towns Go from Boom to Bust

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/college-towns-economy-macomb-illinois-aae84dcc

7 hours ago

47 upvotes – 42 comments

The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there

https://ebellani.github.io/blog/2025/the-principles-of-database-design-or-the-truth-is-out-there/

7 hours ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation

https://moonside.games/posts/layers-all-the-way-down/

7 hours ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

https://www.remoteswe.fyi

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-people-who-can-see-and

9 hours ago

139 upvotes – 24 comments

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html

10 hours ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

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

11 hours ago

456 upvotes – 126 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

194 upvotes – 109 comments

$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener

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

17 hours ago

259 upvotes – 116 comments

Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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

18 hours ago

343 upvotes – 384 comments

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

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

18 hours ago

338 upvotes – 102 comments

Spaced Repetition Memory System

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_memory_system

18 hours ago

222 upvotes – 25 comments

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

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

18 hours ago

179 upvotes – 286 comments

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

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

a day ago

189 upvotes – 76 comments

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

https://domenic.me/fsrs/

a day ago

873 upvotes – 458 comments

Experts have it easy (2024)

https://boydkane.com/essays/experts

a day ago

186 upvotes – 114 comments
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