Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death(historytoday.com)

46 points by pepys 2 years ago | 56 comments

A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)(historytoday.com)

42 points by pepys 1 month ago | 38 comments

'Turncoat' by Dennis Sewell Review(historytoday.com)

4 points by prismatic 11 months ago | 0 comments

The Victorian War on Rabies(historytoday.com)

16 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 15 comments

The Death of Caspar Hauser(historytoday.com)

5 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 0 comments

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery(historytoday.com)

7 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 0 comments

When did people stop being drunk all the time?(lefineder.substack.com)

333 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 583 comments

A Substack essay tracing trends in alcohol consumption from the Middle Ages to the modern world and why heavy everyday drinking declined.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.