Hacker News Digest – May 19, 2025

Top stories as of 05:00 UTC

1. New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC — 113 points, 43 comments
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2. The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there — 26 points, 10 comments
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3. “There are people who can see and others who cannot even look” — 79 points, 9 comments
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4. Spaced repetition systems have gotten better — 780 points, 438 comments
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5. Font Activations: A Note on the Type — 23 points, 0 comments
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6. Ditching Obsidian and building my own — 290 points, 299 comments
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7. Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure — 305 points, 95 comments
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8. France Endorses UN Open Source Principles — 341 points, 77 comments
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9. Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation — 12 points, 3 comments
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10. The Connoisseur of Desire — 14 points, 0 comments
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Last updated: 2025-05-19 05:11:56 UTC