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Stories by benbreen

Understanding the Northern Lights (historytoday.com)
HN 22 pts 3 comments by benbreen Dec 20, 2025 thread
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 19 pts 2 comments by benbreen Jun 15, 2025 thread
The remaking of Thomas Mann (commonwealmagazine.org)
HN 18 pts 2 comments by benbreen Mar 2, 2026 thread
Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) (theguardian.com)
HN 16 pts 24 comments by benbreen May 10, 2025 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
A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race (nytimes.com)
HN 10 pts 0 comments by benbreen Jul 15, 2025 thread
The Once and Future Genius (literaryreview.co.uk)
HN 9 pts 0 comments by benbreen May 3, 2025 thread
The Professor of the Lower Senses (vittlesmagazine.com)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by benbreen Feb 13, 2026 thread
The debate over a tech breakthrough raising questions about life itself (washingtonpost.com)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by benbreen Nov 12, 2025 thread
Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse (nature.com)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by benbreen Jul 6, 2025 thread
Philosopher of Pride (aeon.co)
HN 5 pts 0 comments by benbreen Jan 10, 2026 thread
Aptronym (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 5 pts 3 comments by benbreen Nov 16, 2025 thread
Kucha (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 5 pts 1 comments by benbreen Aug 28, 2025 thread
The Future of Space Is More Than Human (noemamag.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by benbreen Oct 31, 2025 thread
Antis (Dog) (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by benbreen Aug 20, 2025 thread
Slab City, California (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by benbreen Aug 7, 2025 thread
Local Hole (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by benbreen Jul 11, 2025 thread
Why Science Hasn't Solved Consciousness (Yet) (noemamag.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by benbreen Jul 9, 2025 thread
Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Nov 17, 2025 thread
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Nov 10, 2025 thread
Artificial Versifying (2019) (jeffreymbinder.net)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Nov 10, 2025 thread
Baltasar Gracián (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Oct 18, 2025 thread
Modesty Is Not a Virtue: Norbert Wiener (1995) (cs.nyu.edu)
HN 3 pts 1 comments by benbreen Oct 6, 2025 thread
"You Think Me a Bold Cheat": Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess (publicdomainreview.org)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Sep 20, 2025 thread
Governate of Terra Australis (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by benbreen Aug 9, 2025 thread
Shakespeare may not have been a remote husband, new study finds (washingtonpost.com)
HN 3 pts 1 comments by benbreen Apr 28, 2025 thread