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Read Something Wonderful

https://readsomethingwonderful.com/
91•snorbleck•4h ago

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egypturnash•3h ago
I am amazed at this page's CSS. The body text is small so I hit command-+ to make it bigger... and it gets smaller instead. Reset and hit command--... and it also gets smaller. And reader mode's broken.
crooked-v•3h ago
It's because the "body text" is actually a screenshot of text, for some bizarre reason.
egypturnash•3h ago
hahaha wtf
vee-kay•1h ago
Pinch-to-zoom works on mobile (Android) for this site, since each post/article is just an image with a heading.

Swiping up to see the next post/article also retains the zoom, but the fonts & sizes in the posts/articles are not consistent, so we may need to zoom again to make the content fit better on the screen or to make it more legible.

The site reminds me of one of the glorious tools of the old Web - StumbleUpon (integrated as a browser toolbar) - which allowed to jump to random sites upvoted/liked by users. During its heydays, it even allowed users to host their own webpages, and interact in community forum, so like-minded strangers could discuss their fave topics and share nice new finds (websites, tools, etc.).

est•3h ago
what am I looking at?

Cards of text that I have to click to further read?

listic•3h ago
Apparently, yes. Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.
nilirl•3h ago
Beautiful UI.

What's the criteria for pieces promoted?

mentalfist•2h ago
At a quick glance, the main criteria seems for it to be libertarian and anti-socialism.
snorbleck•2h ago
not quite. it's random selections every visit to the site.
layman51•2h ago
Same here. I'm really curious about this too. What do they mean by "wonderful"? I suppose some of the pieces here might not be very well-known or popular, but they are inspiring, or maybe they are a good resource for learning something. All I can see is they are maybe associated with a read-later app?
photios•1h ago
Wondering about that too. What are the "wonderfullness" criteria?

For example, the first article I clicked on: https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-soci...

has some pretty vile stuff:

> Non-offending pedophiles should be more widely accepted by society. It’s unfair to ostracize someone for a desire they were born with, and integrating them into society makes them less likely to cause harm.

sambapa•7m ago
Whats vile about that?
yd4hn•2h ago
If this collection of articles would get updated in the future, I hope there is a rss feed for it. But it seems that the site is just a promotion for this Matter app...

Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/
147•MilnerRoute•14h ago•63 comments

Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold

https://aval.bearblog.dev/nvidiaproteins/
60•diginova•2h ago•11 comments

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

https://arborium.bearcove.eu/
71•zdw•4h ago•11 comments

The Whole App is a Blob

https://drobinin.com/posts/the-whole-app-is-a-blob/
62•valzevul•4h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

247•david927•15h ago•798 comments

Running on Empty: Copper

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper
55•the-needful•6d ago•42 comments

How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?

https://www.volatileint.dev/posts/auto-type-deduction-gauntlet/
43•volatileint•5d ago•24 comments

Unscii

http://viznut.fi/unscii/
46•Levitating•4h ago•2 comments

John Varley has died

http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025.html
54•decimalenough•5h ago•14 comments

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm
33•rramadass•11h ago•12 comments

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/
5•gsf_emergency_6•3d ago•2 comments

CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System

https://www.capros.org/
75•gjvc•7h ago•29 comments

Read Something Wonderful

https://readsomethingwonderful.com/
91•snorbleck•4h ago•14 comments

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes....
60•PaulHoule•8h ago•98 comments

The History of Xerox

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xerox
12•rbanffy•3d ago•0 comments

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after...
91•nreece•7h ago•90 comments

Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-park-dcfb1ce237af7a10ab72205fc9bbdc02
140•1659447091•1w ago•36 comments

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions

https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md
10•CafeRacer•2h ago•0 comments

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

https://martinalderson.com/posts/ai-agents-are-starting-to-eat-saas/
104•jnord•8h ago•127 comments

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
309•thomascountz•15h ago•145 comments

JSDoc is TypeScript

https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/
159•culi•12h ago•188 comments

Elevated errors across many models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
295•pablo24602•10h ago•141 comments

An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness

https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.txt
57•todsacerdoti•1w ago•25 comments

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
144•wseqyrku•6d ago•65 comments

History of Declarative Programming (2021)

https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_15.html
53•measurablefunc•9h ago•15 comments

Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted
156•akyuu•7h ago•124 comments

SoundCloud just banned VPN access

https://old.reddit.com/r/SoundCloudMusic/comments/1pltd19/soundcloud_just_banned_vpn_access/
94•empressplay•5h ago•52 comments

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
132•teleforce•16h ago•57 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
222•nkko•22h ago•136 comments

Rob Reiner has died

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/rob-reiner-dead-harry-met-sally-princess-brid...
39•RickJWagner•4h ago•20 comments