Hacker News: benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbreenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:13:00 +0000<![CDATA[The revenge of the philosophy majors]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818544

Points: 164

# Comments: 268

]]>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:41:56 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.htmlbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818544<![CDATA[The Victorian War on Rabies]]>Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mad-dogs-and-englishmen-winning-war-rabies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808101

Points: 18

# Comments: 19

]]>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:52:17 +0000https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mad-dogs-and-englishmen-winning-war-rabiesbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808101<![CDATA[Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats]]>Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536525123

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752004

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0000https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536525123benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752004<![CDATA[The Meadows of Medieval Summer]]>Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/meadows-medieval-summer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728399

Points: 3

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]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:10:07 +0000https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/meadows-medieval-summerbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728399https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728399<![CDATA[Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos]]>Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660441

Points: 48

# Comments: 2

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:24:03 +0000https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660441<![CDATA[Words, Words, Words]]>Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/literature-fans-should-welcome-ai-as-a-fellow-wordsmith

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640919

Points: 35

# Comments: 15

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:58:39 +0000https://aeon.co/essays/literature-fans-should-welcome-ai-as-a-fellow-wordsmithbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640919<![CDATA[The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)]]>Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624591

Points: 29

# Comments: 11

]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:39:57 +0000https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying/benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624591https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624591<![CDATA[Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/books/carlo-ginzburg-dead.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577601

Points: 18

# Comments: 5

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:07:02 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/books/carlo-ginzburg-dead.htmlbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577601<![CDATA[Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt]]>Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/cypriot-graffiti-ancient-egypt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565741

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:39:48 +0000https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/cypriot-graffiti-ancient-egyptbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565741<![CDATA[Vacuum-Form Signage]]>Article URL: https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470748

Points: 117

# Comments: 24

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:48:20 +0000https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lightingbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470748https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470748<![CDATA[Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson]]>Article URL: https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/easy-writer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406711

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:55:27 +0000https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/easy-writerbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406711https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406711<![CDATA[Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test]]>Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-just-exploded-during-a-static-fire-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318678

Points: 209

# Comments: 8

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 03:32:15 +0000https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-just-exploded-during-a-static-fire-test/benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318678<![CDATA[The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science]]>Article URL: https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-science-of-weather-and-the-nature

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314319

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:38:23 +0000https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-science-of-weather-and-the-naturebenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314319<![CDATA[R vs. Dudley and Stephens]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284845

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:34:22 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephensbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284845https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284845<![CDATA[The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers]]>Article URL: https://www.diffuseai.pub/p/the-structural-barriers-to-ai-lawyers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228728

Points: 66

# Comments: 85

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:51:36 +0000https://www.diffuseai.pub/p/the-structural-barriers-to-ai-lawyersbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228728https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228728<![CDATA[New comment by benbreen in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"]]>Author here - just wanted to clarify in case there is any confusion that those two (intentionally bad/weird) figures of speech about the echo and the trouts in the redwood roots were human written, by me! I wrote them as parody of an AI trying to do "literary" writing. The actual (probable) AI written excerpts are below that part.

I was thinking about the immortal Twin Peaks line "there's a FISH... in the PERCOLATOR" when I wrote the trout one.

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:51:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228087benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228087https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228087<![CDATA[What Is Happening to Publishing?]]>Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publishing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199011

Points: 83

# Comments: 59

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:23:44 +0000https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publishingbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199011<![CDATA[Russian–American Telegraph]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian–American_Telegraph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186656

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:27:15 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian–American_Telegraphbenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186656https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186656<![CDATA[Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype]]>Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163956

Points: 49

# Comments: 6

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 21:25:07 +0000https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/benbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163956<![CDATA[Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history]]>Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/survivorship-bias-in-history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135240

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:40:29 +0000https://resobscura.substack.com/p/survivorship-bias-in-historybenbreenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135240