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1.
How Important Was the Battle of Hastings?
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benbreen
8 hours ago
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1 comment
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The Remaking of Thomas Mann
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1 day ago
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The history of knocking on wood
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54 points
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benbreen
8 days ago
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9 comments
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What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
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resobscura.substack.com
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135 points
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14 days ago
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129 comments
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Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
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225 points
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15 days ago
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88 comments
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The Professor of the Lower Senses
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benbreen
18 days ago
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Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case
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blog.mozilla.ai
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33 points
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benbreen
19 days ago
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2 comments
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Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails
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blog.mozilla.ai
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2 points
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benbreen
28 days ago
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Ashcan Comic
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55 points
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33 days ago
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10.
The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing
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benbreen
36 days ago
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The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)
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53 points
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benbreen
39 days ago
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42 comments
12.
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
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248 points
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40 days ago
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154 comments
13.
The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature
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12 points
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45 days ago
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2 comments
14.
Philosopher of Pride
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5 points
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benbreen
52 days ago
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Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows
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nytimes.com
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2 points
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benbreen
53 days ago
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16.
Pole of Inaccessibility
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69 points
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benbreen
59 days ago
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12 comments
17.
Understanding the Northern Lights
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22 points
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benbreen
74 days ago
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3 comments
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Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994
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13 points
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84 days ago
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11 comments
19.
I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
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resobscura.substack.com
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257 points
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benbreen
89 days ago
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49 comments
20.
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
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2 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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1 comment
21.
Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic
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commonreader.co.uk
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benbreen
3 months ago
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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190 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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101 comments
23.
Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies
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bbc.com
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43 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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12 comments
24.
How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?
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resobscura.substack.com
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3 months ago
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Can automation help make the humanities more human?
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resobscura.substack.com
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3 points
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3 months ago
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Aptronym
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5 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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3 comments
27.
What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
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190 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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116 comments
28.
The debate over a tech breakthrough raising questions about life itself
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washingtonpost.com
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6 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
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nature.com
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50 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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6 comments
30.
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
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resobscura.substack.com
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3 points
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benbreen
3 months ago
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