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Rogule: A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:13PM
from the rogule.com dept.

https://rogule.com/

( Read More... | 57 comments | 2 points | on HN )

A Cattle Trader’s Formula

Posted by seventyhorses on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:41PM
from the texasmonthly.com dept.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/cattle-trading-capitol-schwertner/

( Read More... | 10 comments | 18 points | on HN )

Gigantism is a never-ending temptation

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:04AM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jumbo-airplane

( Read More... | 25 comments | 61 points | on HN )

A New Look at the Hobo

Posted by seventyhorses on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:44PM
from the lareviewofbooks.org dept.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-new-look-at-the-hobo/

( Read More... | 10 comments | 55 points | on HN )

How “the king of the world’s booksellers” produced manuscripts

Posted by seventyhorses on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:14PM
from the lithub.com dept.

https://lithub.com/goatskin-tree-bark-and-one-expensive-scribe-how-the-king-of-the-worlds-booksellers-produced-manuscripts/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20April%2013%2C%202021&utm_term=lithub_master_list

( Read More... | 2 comments | 39 points | on HN )

Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India

Posted by seventyhorses on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:09PM
from the fiftytwo.in dept.

https://fiftytwo.in/story/kingdom/

( Read More... | 25 comments | 60 points | on HN )

Kahler v. Kansas

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:39PM
from the harvardlawreview.org dept.

https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/11/kahler-v-kansas/

( Read More... | 6 comments | 14 points | on HN )

Memorizing a Deck of Cards

Posted by seventyhorses on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @01:24AM
from the lesswrong.com dept.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eGmpH7WuyDRmGJ4HF/memorizing-a-deck-of-cards

( Read More... | 39 comments | 73 points | on HN )

Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:10PM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/video/under-ais-watchful-eye-china-wants-to-raise-smarter-students/C4294BAB-A76B-4569-8D09-32E9F2B62D19.html

( Read More... | 46 comments | 53 points | on HN )

Michael Barbaro and the success of “The Daily”

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:01PM
from the nymag.com dept.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/michael-barbaro-the-daily-podcast-new-york-times.html

( Read More... | 24 comments | 31 points | on HN )

It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers

Posted by seventyhorses on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:30PM
from the seattletimes.com dept.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/its-crunchtime-for-seattle-based-photo-giant-getty-images-and-for-photographers/

( Read More... | 131 comments | 93 points | on HN )

The life and death of Google Flu Trends

Posted by seventyhorses on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:55PM
from the medanthrotheory.org dept.

http://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/11446/algorithmic-futures

( Read More... | 3 comments | 14 points | on HN )

Standard Cognition (YC S17) buys cashierless DeepMagic

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:03PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/10/autonomous-retail/

( Read More... | 3 comments | 24 points | on HN )

The American Art of Murder

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:02PM
from the nationalaffairs.com dept.

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-american-art-of-murder

( Read More... | 1 comment | 17 points | on HN )

Among the Barbarians: V. S. Naipaul and His Critics

Posted by seventyhorses on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:41PM
from the hudsonreview.com dept.

https://hudsonreview.com/2019/08/among-the-barbarians-v-s-naipaul-and-his-critics/

( Read More... | 2 comments | 5 points | on HN )

House Rules (2018)

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday July 06, 2019 @01:39AM
from the push.cx dept.

https://push.cx/2018/house-rules

( Read More... | 13 comments | 43 points | on HN )

One page, four inscriptions, three households

Posted by seventyhorses on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:09AM
from the collation.folger.edu dept.

https://collation.folger.edu/2019/04/three-households/

( Read More... | no comments | 11 points | on HN )

The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:20PM
from the smithsonianmag.com dept.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/behind-scenes-national-zoo-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-180960704/

( Read More... | 45 comments | 111 points | on HN )

Lady Warnock Obituary

Posted by seventyhorses on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:49PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/21/lady-warnock-obituary

( Read More... | 1 comment | 16 points | on HN )

Import-Export (1817)

Posted by seventyhorses on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:50PM
from the laphamsquarterly.org dept.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/trade/import-export

( Read More... | no comments | 7 points | on HN )

Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music

Posted by seventyhorses on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:30PM
from the newyorker.com dept.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music

( Read More... | 10 comments | 48 points | on HN )

'A rose with a thousand petals': what makes an aphorism

Posted by seventyhorses on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @03:25AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/21/aphorisms-nietzsche-proverbs-dorothy-parker-mae-west-oscar-wilde-haikus-epigrams-maxims-adages-riddles

( Read More... | no comments | 25 points | on HN )

Ivan Turgenev Was Distrusted by the Left and the Right

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:16PM
from the neh.gov dept.

https://www.neh.gov/article/ivan-turgenev-was-distrusted-left-and-right

( Read More... | 2 comments | 19 points | on HN )

Hexfoil Marks on Old Books

Posted by seventyhorses on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:30AM
from the collation.folger.edu dept.

https://collation.folger.edu/2018/10/hexed/

( Read More... | 10 comments | 38 points | on HN )

The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Posted by seventyhorses on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:32PM
from the neh.gov dept.

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/marchapril/feature/the-strange-politics-gertrude-stein

( Read More... | 10 comments | 39 points | on HN )

A Breakthrough Way to See Distant Planets

Posted by seventyhorses on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:04PM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/exoplanet-atmosphere-imaging/564908/

( Read More... | 3 comments | 25 points | on HN )

Some of the newest species found in the UK

Posted by seventyhorses on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:45PM
from the bbc.com dept.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-43475102

( Read More... | 2 comments | 12 points | on HN )

Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017)

Posted by seventyhorses on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:20PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/nyregion/want-to-be-happy-think-like-an-old-person.html

( Read More... | 170 comments | 313 points | on HN )

The Electronic Computers, Part 4: The Electronic Revolution

Posted by seventyhorses on Monday December 04, 2017 @10:09PM
from the technicshistory.wordpress.com dept.

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/the-electronic-computers-part-4-the-electronic-revolution/

( Read More... | 3 comments | 54 points | on HN )