Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple(ripleys.com)

109 points by nonethewiser 3 years ago | 138 comments

Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower(smithsonianmag.com)

38 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 23 comments

Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019)(newlyswissed.com)

33 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 7 comments

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed(bbc.com)

69 points by peutetre 1 year ago | 12 comments

"Final Usonian Home" by Frank Lloyd Wright Completed in Ohio(dezeen.com)

53 points by rmason 1 year ago | 24 comments

The paper model houses of Peter Fritz (2013)(socks-studio.com)

37 points by NaOH 9 months ago | 6 comments

Why We Spiral(behavioralscientist.org)

335 points by gmays 1 year ago | 96 comments

Behavioral Scientist article by Gregory M. Walton, published August 18, 2025, examining why people fall into negative psychological spirals.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?(spencermortensen.com)

319 points by jaden 6 months ago | 93 comments

An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)

17 points by eustoria 1 month ago | 2 comments

A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.

Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them(swinburne.edu.au)

485 points by OptionOfT 9 months ago | 252 comments

Swinburne University news article explaining why some fabrics shrink in the wash and how to restore shrunken clothes.

How NAT Traversal Works (2020)(tailscale.com)

345 points by hhthrowaway1230 1 year ago | 69 comments

Tailscale blog post from 2020 explaining how NAT traversal works for establishing direct peer-to-peer connections between devices.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.