benbreen

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The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)(metropolitanreview.org)
36 points by benbreen 6mo ago|9 comments
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When do we become adults, really?(newyorker.com)
100 points by benbreen 6mo ago|141 comments
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Desperately Seeking Space Friends(reviewcanada.ca)
40 points by benbreen 6mo ago|3 comments
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When Do We Become Adults, Really?(newyorker.com)
5 points by benbreen 7mo ago|4 comments
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Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017)(denizcemonduygu.com)
6 points by benbreen 7mo ago|0 comments
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Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel(royapakzad.substack.com)
102 points by benbreen 7mo ago|23 comments
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How important was the Battle of Hastings?(historytoday.com)
85 points by benbreen 7mo ago|62 comments
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The remaking of Thomas Mann(commonwealmagazine.org)
18 points by benbreen 7mo ago|2 comments
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The history of knocking on wood(resobscura.substack.com)
54 points by benbreen 7mo ago|10 comments
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by benbreen 8mo ago
One underrated thing about the recent frontier models, IMO, is that they are obviating the need for image gen as a standalone thing. Opus 4.6 (and apparently 3.1 Pro as well) doesn't have the ability to generate images but it is so g
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by benbreen 8mo ago
Thank you, this sort of insight is exactly why I've felt such kinship with what software engineers like Karpathy and Simon Willison have been writing lately. It seems obvious to me that there is something special and irreplaceable abou
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What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI(resobscura.substack.com)
135 points by benbreen 8mo ago|129 comments
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Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails(royapakzad.substack.com)
225 points by benbreen 8mo ago|88 comments
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The Professor of the Lower Senses(vittlesmagazine.com)
6 points by benbreen 8mo ago|0 comments
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Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case(blog.mozilla.ai)
33 points by benbreen 8mo ago|2 comments
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Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails(blog.mozilla.ai)
2 points by benbreen 8mo ago|0 comments
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Ashcan Comic(en.wikipedia.org)
55 points by benbreen 8mo ago|20 comments
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The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing(lithub.com)
2 points by benbreen 8mo ago|0 comments
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The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)(yalereview.org)
53 points by benbreen 9mo ago|42 comments
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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)(leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
248 points by benbreen 9mo ago|154 comments
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The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by benbreen 9mo ago|2 comments
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by benbreen 9mo ago
I am a historian and am putting together a grant application for a somewhat similar project (different era and language though). Would you be open to discussing a collaboration? My email is bebreen [at] ucsc [dot] edu.
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Philosopher of Pride(aeon.co)
5 points by benbreen 9mo ago|0 comments
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Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows(nytimes.com)
2 points by benbreen 9mo ago|0 comments
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Pole of Inaccessibility(en.wikipedia.org)
69 points by benbreen 9mo ago|12 comments
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Understanding the Northern Lights(historytoday.com)
22 points by benbreen 10mo ago|3 comments
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by benbreen 10mo ago
Mostly, I gave it some feedback and steered it a little but it's 99% percent Gemini 3. It would be interesting to make something like this "live" in that it could simulate each day of 1995 (say) anew, updating each morning.
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by benbreen 10mo ago
Love the faux Nature article: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098000.html Especially this bit: "[Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status...]" I realize this stuf
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by benbreen 10mo ago
Here is the working version: https://hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app Enjoy! I also asked Opus 4.5 to make a "1994 style readme page" for the GitHub: https://github.com/benjaminbreen/HyperCardHack
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Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994(hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app)
13 points by benbreen 10mo ago|11 comments

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