mitchbob's comments

On: Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place

[mitchbob]

Recently posted here on HN and well worth a look:

Underrated ways to change the world, part II

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated-ways-to-ch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873494

Part I is at

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated-ways-to-ch...

On: CSB: Fatal Explosions at Didion Milling [video]

[mitchbob]

The explosions happened in 2017, so this video could have been made well before the defunding.

On: We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands

[mitchbob]

https://archive.ph/CrS1Q

On: Why the Future of Movies Lives on Letterboxd

[mitchbob]

https://archive.ph/2026.02.03-214425/https://www.nytimes.com...

On: What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

[mitchbob]

> Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries.

https://archive.ph/2026.02.03-101646/https://www.nytimes.com...

On: Machinery and English Style (1904)

[mitchbob]

https://archive.ph/bcjJV

On: Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

[mitchbob]

> Will an A.I. restoration of "The Magnificent Ambersons" right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

https://archive.ph/MgmSt

On: They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately

[mitchbob]

> Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin.

https://archive.ph/5zxZq

On: The Dot-Com Optimists Got a Lot Right

[mitchbob]

https://archive.ph/2026.02.01-151627/https://www.bloomberg.c...

On: To Build a Fire

[mitchbob]

> How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe.

https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-112106/https://www.newyorker.c...