benbreen's submissions

1.		Obsolete Sounds (citiesandmemory.com)
		244 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| past \| 49 comments
2.		The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025) (metropolitanreview.org)
		34 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| past \| 9 comments
3.		When do we become adults, really? (newyorker.com)
		56 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| past \| 77 comments
4.		Desperately Seeking Space Friends (reviewcanada.ca)
		38 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
5.		When Do We Become Adults, Really? (newyorker.com)
		5 points by benbreen 8 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
6.		Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (denizcemonduygu.com)
		6 points by benbreen 17 days ago \| past
7.		Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
		102 points by benbreen 24 days ago \| past \| 23 comments
8.		How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com)
		85 points by benbreen 25 days ago \| past \| 62 comments
9.		The remaking of Thomas Mann (commonwealmagazine.org)
		18 points by benbreen 26 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
10.		The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
		54 points by benbreen 33 days ago \| past \| 10 comments
11.		What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
		135 points by benbreen 39 days ago \| past \| 129 comments
12.		Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
		225 points by benbreen 41 days ago \| past \| 88 comments
13.		The Professor of the Lower Senses (vittlesmagazine.com)
		6 points by benbreen 43 days ago \| past
14.		Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (blog.mozilla.ai)
		33 points by benbreen 44 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
15.		Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails (blog.mozilla.ai)
		2 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| past
16.		Ashcan Comic (wikipedia.org)
		55 points by benbreen 58 days ago \| past \| 20 comments
17.		The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing (lithub.com)
		2 points by benbreen 61 days ago \| past
18.		The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989) (yalereview.org)
		53 points by benbreen 64 days ago \| past \| 42 comments
19.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		248 points by benbreen 65 days ago \| past \| 154 comments
20.		The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com)
		12 points by benbreen 70 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
21.		Philosopher of Pride (aeon.co)
		5 points by benbreen 77 days ago \| past
22.		Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows (nytimes.com)
		2 points by benbreen 79 days ago \| past
23.		Pole of Inaccessibility (wikipedia.org)
		69 points by benbreen 84 days ago \| past \| 12 comments
24.		Understanding the Northern Lights (historytoday.com)
		22 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 3 comments
25.		[flagged] Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994 (hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app)
		13 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 11 comments
26.		I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
		257 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 49 comments
27.		Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? (nytimes.com)
		2 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
28.		Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic (commonreader.co.uk)
		2 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past
29.		Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (wikipedia.org)
		190 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| past \| 101 comments
30.		Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies (bbc.com)
		43 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| past \| 12 comments
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