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'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-of-the-institutional-gothic/
17•anarbadalov•1h ago

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cjs_ac•35m ago
> But one can imagine a different version of this scene: a future humanity similarly excavating remains of corporate hallways that have since crumbled, wondering what life could have been like at the turn of the 20th century. What might our strange office spaces look like to the humans of the 2100s? What might they eventually look like to Gen Z and Gen Alpha, who may only know these environments through the ominous “Backrooms” or the goofy hijinks of “The Office”?
WarmWash•30m ago
Are dungeons just medieval backrooms?
stackghost•16m ago
Not sure if you're asking honestly or just going for comedy but, no.

"Backrooms" are liminal spaces that exist outside the geometry of our world. It comes from video games, where if you enabled developer modes to let you pass through the normal level geometry, sometimes you'd find leftover/unused rooms and hallways that players cannot normally access.

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-fo...
1•speckx•27s ago•0 comments

In a thunderous launch, Artemis II astronauts leave Earth. Here's what's next

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5770599
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
2•nickvec•2m ago•0 comments

There Is No Standard EM Role

https://leadership.garden/there-is-no-standard-em-role/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Best Enterprise Claude Code Gateway

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@maximhq/bifrost
1•aanthonymax•6m ago•0 comments

Node.js can host a new language. Interpreter is the easiest thing

https://github.com/dominexmacedon-dev/starlight-cli-script
1•dominexmacedon•6m ago•0 comments

Startup funding shatters all records in Q1

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/startup-funding-shatters-all-records-in-q1/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•1 comments

Japanese X is now America's favorite corner of the internet

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/01/japan/japanese-x-now-americas-favorite/
2•mikhael•8m ago•0 comments

Rare Apple Prototypes for iPod, iPhone, Watch [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM
1•dzonga•8m ago•0 comments

The Beep at Meta

https://k2xl.substack.com/p/the-beep-at-meta
3•k2xl•9m ago•0 comments

Stand-Alone Complex or Vibercrime? Exploring GenAI in Cybercrime Ecosystems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29545
1•susan_segfault•10m ago•0 comments

Goodbye, Apple Photos

https://sethw.xyz/blog/2024/03/29/goodbye-apple-photos/
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What percentage of HN is simply promotional content?

1•general_reveal•12m ago•1 comments

BIGA-Bank-of-Infinity-Generating-Automata

https://github.com/Ashioya-ui/BIGA-Bank-of-Infinity-Generating-Automata
1•pb_lightmind•13m ago•0 comments

World Cup tickets go on sale

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8lzj0rprpo
1•m4tthumphrey•14m ago•0 comments

Claw Code – A Full Rewrite of Claude Code in Python

https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code
1•redbell•17m ago•1 comments

cla-bot Is a GitHub Application for Automation of Contributor Licence Agreements

https://colineberhardt.github.io/cla-bot/
1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Apple HIG Design Skills

https://github.com/cozyss/design-skills
1•cozyss•21m ago•0 comments

Declarative paper titles get 3.5x more citations (423 PubMed papers)

https://academicseo.co.uk/blog/cancer-title-analysis-study.html
1•gxkspeaks•21m ago•0 comments

Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics

https://www.decouple.media/p/chinas-eletrotech-stack-rests-on
1•leonidasrup•21m ago•0 comments

Time to Take Down Your Smart Cameras [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ
2•Jn2G3Np8•22m ago•0 comments

MCP Is Overengineered, Skills Are Too Primitive

https://lobu.ai/blog/mcp-is-overengineered-skills-are-too-primitive/
3•buremba•22m ago•1 comments

Comment about Collabora blog post

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-about-collabora-blog-post/
1•bitigchi•22m ago•0 comments

Inside Amazon Live Events

https://insidetechandmedia.substack.com/p/inside-amazon-live-events-armin-mahban
1•NeedMoreCowbell•24m ago•0 comments

Hong Kong / China / Taiwan Based Slack Suspended

https://old.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1sadwsh/hong_kong_china_taiwan_based_slack_suspended/
1•hentrep•24m ago•1 comments

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
2•rafaelc•24m ago•0 comments

Can a country get too rich?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/01/can-a-country-get-too-rich
2•edward•24m ago•0 comments

Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K

3•alganzory•25m ago•0 comments

TokensTree – collaborative network for AI agents with shared knowledge cache.MIT

https://tokenstree.com
1•vfalbor•26m ago•0 comments

The Most Important Technology of the Next Decade

https://boringops.sh/articles/the_most_important_technology_of_the_next_decade/
1•boringops-dan•26m ago•1 comments