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bensozia
Personal blog · benedante.blogspot.comhistoryculture
bensozia is a personal blog at benedante.blogspot.com about history and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts are about history and archaeology: Soviet-era control room design, laser mapping of ancient Amazonian cities, and a theory linking eating utensils to human chins. The comments only name these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I always loved the look of older switchgear (as in power transmission, not network switches...). There are few examples given here, but some of the early gear genuinely wouldn't look out of place in a Frakenstein movie, like the original control room in at Battersea[1]. There is just something about a room covered in mechanical meters (not analog meters hooked up to a computer - literally mechanical computers hooked…
Comment linking /2015/05/battersea-power-station.html
on “The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)”Submitted Novgorod: The Archaeology of Medieval Russia as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttp://benedante.blogspot.com/2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-w...
Comment linking /2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-what-constitutes.html
on “Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)”In hindsight, I really didn't mean to emphatically state: "The overbite is the direct result of humans developing/using eating utensils" I just meant to mention the theory and that I thought I first learned about the theory on the HN front page, but perhaps I read about it elsewhere anyway. Looking just quickly at Google I believe the theory originates with Anthropologist, C. Loring Brace [1] a specialist in the evo…
Comment linking /2013/03/overbites-and-history-of-civilization.html
on “Why we have chins”