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Stories by benbreen

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 257 pts 49 comments by benbreen Dec 4, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
HN 248 pts 154 comments by benbreen Jan 23, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How to Build a Medieval Castle (archaeology.org)
HN 244 pts 76 comments by benbreen Aug 19, 2025 thread
Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
HN 225 pts 88 comments by benbreen Feb 16, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 190 pts 101 comments by benbreen Nov 29, 2025 Science / Math / Physics thread
What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (theparisreview.org)
HN 190 pts 116 comments by benbreen Nov 14, 2025 thread
OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 137 pts 147 comments by benbreen Jul 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 135 pts 129 comments by benbreen Feb 18, 2026 AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human (diff.wikimedia.org)
HN 122 pts 34 comments by benbreen Sep 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
HN 102 pts 23 comments by benbreen 6d ago thread
How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com)
HN 85 pts 62 comments by benbreen Mar 4, 2026 thread
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 84 pts 41 comments by benbreen Aug 13, 2025 thread
Pole of Inaccessibility (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 69 pts 12 comments by benbreen Jan 3, 2026 Design / UX / Visualization thread
The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved (bbc.com)
HN 57 pts 12 comments by benbreen Aug 3, 2025 thread
Ashcan Comic (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 55 pts 20 comments by benbreen Jan 30, 2026 thread
The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 54 pts 10 comments by benbreen Feb 24, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989) (yalereview.org)
HN 53 pts 42 comments by benbreen Jan 23, 2026 thread
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire (nature.com)
HN 50 pts 6 comments by benbreen Nov 11, 2025 thread
Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log (nytimes.com)
HN 46 pts 23 comments by benbreen Jun 25, 2025 thread
Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies (bbc.com)
HN 43 pts 12 comments by benbreen Nov 25, 2025 thread
Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (blog.mozilla.ai)
HN 33 pts 2 comments by benbreen Feb 12, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
The first inkjet printer was a medical device (spectrum.ieee.org)
HN 32 pts 5 comments by benbreen Sep 1, 2025 thread
William James at CERN (1995) (bactra.org)
HN 29 pts 5 comments by benbreen Sep 5, 2025 thread
Understanding the Northern Lights (historytoday.com)
HN 22 pts 3 comments by benbreen Dec 20, 2025 thread
The remaking of Thomas Mann (commonwealmagazine.org)
HN 18 pts 2 comments by benbreen Mar 2, 2026 thread
Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994 (hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app)
HN 13 pts 11 comments by benbreen Dec 9, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread
The Transformations of Fernand Braudel (historytoday.com)
HN 13 pts 3 comments by benbreen Oct 31, 2025 thread
Thishereness (lrb.co.uk)
HN 13 pts 6 comments by benbreen Oct 7, 2025 thread
Mystery in the Moon (engelsbergideas.com)
HN 13 pts 3 comments by benbreen Sep 13, 2025 thread
The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com)
HN 12 pts 2 comments by benbreen Jan 18, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread