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Ask HN: What silly or weird web search did you do recently?

1•RetroTechie•47m ago
Web searches have become a common part of most peoples' lives. But there are times when an 'innocent bystander' might ask themselves: "What the #&$@ is that?".

So: what web search did you do recently, where (imagining average-dude-in-the-street looking over your shoulder) that person might utter a WTF or two? Multiple answers allowed!

Please keep in mind that HN users (on average) do not qualify as "average dude in the street". Whoever he/she/they may be. What may seem ordinary/known to many on HN, may not seem so to most other people. And the reverse may also be true: HN users could be less likely to keep tabs on say, the latest memes, TikTok videos or celebrity gossip.

Perhaps it's a good idea to leave names of software projects out? There's sooooo many, a significant fraction of those passing by on HN posts don't ring any bell for me.

Let's summarize it as "whatever might pique a random bystander's intellectual curiosity".

My Contaminated Smile (<2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20101126175812/http://www.mouthmag.com/issues/58/contam_smile.htm
1•verisimi•43s ago•0 comments

There's no substitute for real-world experience

https://mattcasmith.net/2026/08/23/no-substitute-real-world-experience
1•mattcasmith•1m ago•0 comments

The Bay Area's 'city of the dead'

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-colma-cemeteries-22364598.php
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Personal care products are awash in unlabeled toxic chemicals, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/personal-care-products-unlabeled-toxic-chemicals
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

The Interview That Wouldn't Die

https://returnzero.dev/articles/coding-interviews-in-the-age-of-ai
1•rotemmiz•6m ago•0 comments

Together – Community mental health support through shared therapeutic silence

https://together.lyfmail.com/
1•LYFMail•6m ago•0 comments

Claude is your insider threat now [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJYw2gR0cU
1•soupspaces•12m ago•0 comments

Product Owner Interview Questions for the Age of AI

https://age-of-product.com/product-owner-interview-questions/
1•swolpers•13m ago•0 comments

Prompt Sufficiency: A Missive for the Managerial Class

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jDHc4oK4oPwfh6TcK/prompt-sufficiency-a-missive-for-the-managerial...
1•kp1197•13m ago•0 comments

Strange people, but very smart (Bell Labs Culture)

https://voiceinthemachine.com/2026/08/20/strange-people-but-very-smart/
1•brandonb•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Histiq – Local semantic search for the browser history and PDFs

https://histiq.com/
2•histiq•14m ago•0 comments

Do LLM quants impact as much as we think?

https://rakuensoftware.com/blog/which-quant-beats-how-many-bits
1•jbailes•19m ago•1 comments

Prism Reviewer – Multi-agent AI code reviewer built with LangGraph and LiteLLM

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/prism-reviewer-ai
1•aravinthan-n•22m ago•0 comments

Free global board for favourite products and shops

https://shopat.lol
1•affixio•23m ago•0 comments

Vorssaint – One menu bar icon doing the job of a dozen paid Mac apps

https://github.com/vorssaint/vorssaint-utils
1•drapado•25m ago•0 comments

MRIs Show Dogs Are Good at Distinguishing Between Human Emotions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-gave-dogs-mris-and-learned-that-theyre-surpr...
1•pseudolus•27m ago•0 comments

Biddr Pay-to-Rank Leaderboard for Products and Profiles

https://biddr.lol
1•affixio•31m ago•0 comments

File Transfer Pseudoprotocol (2020)

https://computer.rip/2020-05-20-file-transfer-pseudoprotocol.html
1•1317•32m ago•0 comments

MLRP Mirror House

https://divisare.com/projects/235297-mlrp-laura-stamer-mirror-house
1•jruohonen•33m ago•0 comments

Walking the Length of Manhattan

https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/232/
1•bookofjoe•43m ago•0 comments

Moderna, Merck breakthrough could usher in wave of cancer vaccines

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/health/mrna-cancer-vaccines-wave
3•fariswyatt•44m ago•0 comments

Venezuela abandoning the bolivar would be the biggest currency switch

https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/dollarization-venezuela-bolivar-currency-switch-hyperinflation-oil...
3•firesteelrain•45m ago•1 comments

The Titan has been mapped. (TITIN Q8WZ42)

https://medium.com/@kisnorbert87/the-titan-has-been-mapped-q8wz42-b90096a655f2
1•kisnorbert•45m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What silly or weird web search did you do recently?

1•RetroTechie•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: linecast – weather, radar, tides and maps in the terminal

https://terminaltrove.com/linecast/
4•ashuttl•47m ago•0 comments

We found an attack class in MCP tool-call receipts, built a linter for it

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccs-lint
1•easterndev•48m ago•0 comments

Digital Switch Recipes

https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes
1•jruohonen•48m ago•0 comments

IBM Research Unveils Quantum Computing Mainframe [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMI6IhvwE0
1•mofosyne•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Room Acoustic and HRTF Simulator

https://nikhil-verma.com/room-signal/
3•NikhilVerma•49m ago•0 comments

Visualization of CERN Accelerator Complex

https://explore360.cern.ch/home
2•cybersepp•53m ago•0 comments