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Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blemmyes/
14•Thevet•2w ago

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JKCalhoun•2w ago
Not yet depicted in film? Missed opportunity.
comrade1234•2w ago
The book Baudolino by Umberto Eco has these and many more fantastical creatures. The first half of the book sticks to history (north Italy wars, German emporer Barbarossa, the crusades and Constantinople, etc) but in the second half the characters start traveling to the East on a quest and start coming across these creatures and more...

To be honest i enjoyed the beginning historical parts much more than the quest part of the book. It brought insight to me on some things an Italian friend told me about their history, where there was constant fighting, even to the point where families would build compounds with towers so they could attack their neighbors from the tower. And how when a city was defeated in battle it could be completely dismantled and removed from the face of the earth.

michaelgburton•2w ago
Love me some nonsensical medieval illustrations. Compare and contrast to 2023 illustration of Blemmyes (from a game I was working on a couple years ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HISYcO-WHmk

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/
152•boulos•8h ago•124 comments

Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode

https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/
54•dskhatri•2h ago•3 comments

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

https://smallandroidphone.com/
63•asimops•3h ago•100 comments

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/
274•Brajeshwar•9h ago•64 comments

Gaslight-Driven Development

https://tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-driven-development/
12•theodorejb•29m ago•7 comments

From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership

https://humansinsystems.com/blog/new-manager-essentials-a-practical-guide-to-your-first-months
41•yunusozen•2d ago•34 comments

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/
101•drewsberry•5h ago•22 comments

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
69•pseudolus•3d ago•25 comments

Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

https://tincan.kids/
124•derwiki•3h ago•91 comments

Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

https://www.sciencealert.com/signs-of-autism-could-be-encoded-in-the-way-you-walk
64•amichail•6h ago•75 comments

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

https://github.com/aws/pgactive
257•ForHackernews•15h ago•69 comments

A recap on May/June stability at Neon

https://neon.com/blog/an-apology-and-a-recap-on-may-june-stability
37•nikita•4h ago•4 comments

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-retreat-is-unlike-anything-its-done-before-in-oregon.html
65•cbzbc•5h ago•74 comments

Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes

https://0xdeadtype.theden.sh/
58•theden•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores

https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores
133•ghita_•10h ago•44 comments

Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473
100•mfiguiere•10h ago•45 comments

Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-dodecahedron-a-mysterious-12-sided-object-that-has-baffled-archaeologists-for-centuries
31•bookofjoe•2d ago•66 comments

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html
324•cesarsotovalero•17h ago•499 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
338•Bogdanp•18h ago•140 comments

Scanned piano rolls database

http://www.pianorollmusic.org/rolldatabase.php
22•bookofjoe•4d ago•7 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer
1•adchurch•7h ago

A Rust shaped hole

https://mnvr.in/rust
35•vishnumohandas•1d ago•91 comments

Young graduates are facing an employment crisis

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-unemployment-rise-young-people-ce4704d8
120•bdev12345•4h ago•191 comments

How and where will agents ship software?

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents
102•stopachka•7h ago•50 comments

Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages

https://htmlmaze.com/
57•kyrylo•2d ago•16 comments

What's happening to reading?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/whats-happening-to-reading
126•Kaibeezy•3d ago•261 comments

Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck
266•chubot•21h ago•51 comments

Atopile – Design circuit boards with code

https://atopile.io/atopile/introduction
88•poly2it•3d ago•24 comments

Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images

https://mkosi.systemd.io/
54•leetrout•8h ago•16 comments

Show HN: BloomSearch – Keyword search with hierarchical Bloom filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/bloomsearch
49•dangoodmanUT•3d ago•10 comments