| 1. | | "Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 2 points by benbreen 2 days ago | past | discuss |
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| 2. | | Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 5 points by benbreen 14 days ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 3. | | Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by benbreen 16 days ago | past |
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| 4. | | Obsolete Sounds (citiesandmemory.com) |
| 248 points by benbreen 21 days ago | past | 50 comments |
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| 5. | | The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025) (metropolitanreview.org) |
| 36 points by benbreen 21 days ago | past | 9 comments |
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| 6. | | When do we become adults, really? (newyorker.com) |
| 100 points by benbreen 21 days ago | past | 141 comments |
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| 7. | | Desperately Seeking Space Friends (reviewcanada.ca) |
| 40 points by benbreen 21 days ago | past | 3 comments |
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| 8. | | When Do We Become Adults, Really? (newyorker.com) |
| 5 points by benbreen 27 days ago | past | 4 comments |
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| 9. | | Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (denizcemonduygu.com) |
| 6 points by benbreen 35 days ago | past |
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| 10. | | Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com) |
| 102 points by benbreen 42 days ago | past | 23 comments |
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| 11. | | How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com) |
| 85 points by benbreen 43 days ago | past | 62 comments |
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| 12. | | The remaking of Thomas Mann (commonwealmagazine.org) |
| 18 points by benbreen 45 days ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 13. | | The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 54 points by benbreen 51 days ago | past | 10 comments |
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| 14. | | What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 135 points by benbreen 57 days ago | past | 129 comments |
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| 15. | | Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com) |
| 225 points by benbreen 59 days ago | past | 88 comments |
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| 16. | | The Professor of the Lower Senses (vittlesmagazine.com) |
| 6 points by benbreen 62 days ago | past |
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| 17. | | Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (blog.mozilla.ai) |
| 33 points by benbreen 63 days ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 18. | | Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails (blog.mozilla.ai) |
| 2 points by benbreen 72 days ago | past |
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| 19. | | Ashcan Comic (wikipedia.org) |
| 55 points by benbreen 76 days ago | past | 20 comments |
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| 20. | | The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing (lithub.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen 79 days ago | past |
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| 21. | | The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989) (yalereview.org) |
| 53 points by benbreen 83 days ago | past | 42 comments |
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| 22. | | Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl) |
| 248 points by benbreen 83 days ago | past | 154 comments |
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| 23. | | The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com) |
| 12 points by benbreen 88 days ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 24. | | Philosopher of Pride (aeon.co) |
| 5 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past |
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| 25. | | Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows (nytimes.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past |
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| 26. | | Pole of Inaccessibility (wikipedia.org) |
| 69 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 12 comments |
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| 27. | | Understanding the Northern Lights (historytoday.com) |
| 22 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 3 comments |
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| 28. | | [flagged] Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994 (hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app) |
| 13 points by benbreen 4 months ago | past | 11 comments |
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| 29. | | I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 257 points by benbreen 4 months ago | past | 49 comments |
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| 30. | | Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? (nytimes.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen 4 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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