Stories by benbreen

The history of knocking on wood

What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI

Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

The Professor of the Lower Senses

Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case

Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails

Ashcan Comic

The Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing

The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

Philosopher of Pride

Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows

Pole of Inaccessibility

Philosopher of Pride

Understanding the Northern Lights

Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic

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