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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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brianmg&#x2F;voynich-nlp-analysis">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brianmg&#x2F;voynich-nlp-analysis</a>
Write-up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brig90.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;modeling-the-voynich-manuscript-with?r=3z5dn9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brig90.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;modeling-the-voynich-manuscrip...</a>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.

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We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML&#x2F;XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;</a> and file:&#x2F;&#x2F; only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast.We’d love your thoughts and feedback.

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

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I created a platform that compiles tech conferences in one place - not just the when and where, but also the best discount codes and free ticket giveaways! Feedback and suggestions are welcome as I continue to refine it.

Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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I’ve been a remote SWE since the pandemic and truly appreciate its flexibilities and time saved from not commuting. Lately, friends and close ones have been asking me for advice on finding remote roles. I shared my remote company spreadsheet with them, but realized it was a rather manual process to scroll and refresh each company’s career page for new postings.So I put together a centralized job board aggregator that lists the best paying SWE jobs in one place, starting with the U.S. and 14 companies. The way it works is via a cron job that runs daily in the afternoon to pull the latest job postings from each company and updates the website with the new listings.Some other key features are1. Quickly see which companies are actively hiring, e.g. Coinbase currently has the most openings2. Filter by years of experience or companies to find suitable matches3. Easily see estimated salary and posted dateIf you&#x27;re also on the hunt for the next remote SWE role, I hope this site helps streamline your job search and would appreciate any feedback and suggestions. Thanks!Home page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remoteswe.fyi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remoteswe.fyi</a>FAQ page with additional context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remoteswe.fyi&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remoteswe.fyi&#x2F;faq</a>

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

Hi HN,I turned the freshly published paper “The Constructor Theory of Time” by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto (arXiv, 13 May 2025) into an executable Python library.What you’ll find
 • One-to-one translation of the paper’s formalism: Substrates, Attributes, Tasks, Constructors, and task-algebra operators
 • Possibility &#x2F; impossibility predicates and counterfactuals encoded exactly as defined
 • Test suite that mirrors every lemma and example (&gt;95 % coverage, mypy-typed)
 • Reproductions of key results: time-keeping substrates, irreversibility proofs, quantum branching tasks, and a self-replicating constructorWhy share?
Reading the paper is tough going; expressing each definition in code clarified the ideas and surfaced a couple of questions for discussion. Hoping it helps others and sparks extensions.Looking for feedback:
 • Did I miss any subtleties in the formalism?
 • Which additional theorems or examples would you like implemented next?Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gvelesandro&#x2F;constructor-theory-simulator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gvelesandro&#x2F;constructor-theory-simulator</a>Thanks for taking a look—issues and PRs welcome!