benbreen's submissions

1.		"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)
		17 points by benbreen 8 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
2.		Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) (publicdomainreview.org)
		5 points by benbreen 20 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
3.		Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by benbreen 21 days ago \| past
4.		Obsolete Sounds (citiesandmemory.com)
		248 points by benbreen 27 days ago \| past \| 50 comments
5.		The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025) (metropolitanreview.org)
		36 points by benbreen 27 days ago \| past \| 9 comments
6.		When do we become adults, really? (newyorker.com)
		100 points by benbreen 27 days ago \| past \| 141 comments
7.		Desperately Seeking Space Friends (reviewcanada.ca)
		40 points by benbreen 27 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
8.		When Do We Become Adults, Really? (newyorker.com)
		5 points by benbreen 32 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
9.		Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (denizcemonduygu.com)
		6 points by benbreen 41 days ago \| past
10.		Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
		102 points by benbreen 47 days ago \| past \| 23 comments
11.		How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com)
		85 points by benbreen 49 days ago \| past \| 62 comments
12.		The remaking of Thomas Mann (commonwealmagazine.org)
		18 points by benbreen 50 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
13.		The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
		54 points by benbreen 56 days ago \| past \| 10 comments
14.		What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
		135 points by benbreen 62 days ago \| past \| 129 comments
15.		Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)
		225 points by benbreen 64 days ago \| past \| 88 comments
16.		The Professor of the Lower Senses (vittlesmagazine.com)
		6 points by benbreen 67 days ago \| past
17.		Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (blog.mozilla.ai)
		33 points by benbreen 68 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
18.		Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails (blog.mozilla.ai)
		2 points by benbreen 77 days ago \| past
19.		Ashcan Comic (wikipedia.org)
		55 points by benbreen 82 days ago \| past \| 20 comments
20.		The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing (lithub.com)
		2 points by benbreen 85 days ago \| past
21.		The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989) (yalereview.org)
		53 points by benbreen 88 days ago \| past \| 42 comments
22.		Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
		248 points by benbreen 89 days ago \| past \| 154 comments
23.		The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (washingtonpost.com)
		12 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
24.		Philosopher of Pride (aeon.co)
		5 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past
25.		Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows (nytimes.com)
		2 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past
26.		Pole of Inaccessibility (wikipedia.org)
		69 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 12 comments
27.		Understanding the Northern Lights (historytoday.com)
		22 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| past \| 3 comments
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
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
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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