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2026

  1. Attack on RTX TitanIn the year 845, humanity was reminded of the terror of living in awe of Nvidia, and the humiliation of being trapped inside the Walled Ecosystem.creativetopic/shitpoststocks/NVDA
  2. The Meta-verse KnightIt was a peaceful morning in Cappy Town. Tokkori was insulting the sunrise, Kawasaki was burning something he called "breakfast," and Kirby was asleep in his…topic/shitpostcreativegame/kirby
  3. We Aren't Called Everyone & NobleNEW YORK—In a dramatic bid to distinguish itself from e-commerce giants and boost declining in-store traffic, Barnes & Noble announced Wednesday a radical…creativetopic/shitpost
  4. GRAND THEFT AUTO SAN ANDREAS STORIESSan Fierro, 2026. The fog rolls in over a city where a one-bedroom apartment costs $4,200/month, but parking your car overnight costs you a window. The tech…
  5. Knowledge Base (JSX)Browsers cannot natively parse JSX syntax. During the build process, compilers (such as Babel, TypeScript, Vite, or SWC) transpile JSX elements into standard…
  6. IX. The Three Deaths of EarthBeyond the four-dimensional universe lies a higher domain [O] — home to a wave-form existence and to the collective unconscious of all thinking beings [F].…game/xenogearsgame/xenoblade chronicles
  7. Claude versionBeing the Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Regrettably Accurate Transcript of the Most Divisive Political Season in Azerothian Historytopic/shitpostcreativepolitics
  8. Middlesex mandates Middle SexMIDDLESEX, MA— In a sweeping local ordinance aimed at "preserving historical accuracy and geographic integrity," officials in Middlesex announced Tuesday that…topic/shitpostcreative
  9. Duke demanding DukeDURHAM, NC—In a bold bid to elevate its global academic standing, Duke University announced Monday that all current and prospective employees must acquire a…topic/shitpostcreativehigher education
  10. SanDisk GundamThe annual Neo Japan Gunpla Expo was supposed to be a standard affair of plastic, paint fumes, and grown adults weeping over limited-edition plastic runners.…topic/shitpostcreative
  11. Sengoku SudokuIn the year 1582, at the burning Honnō-ji temple, Oda Nobunaga realized all was lost. Surrounded by treacherous troops, he reached into his robes, pulled out…topic/shitpostcreative
  12. Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bullish DayThe wind was blowing from the East, and it was a very blustery day in the Hundred Acre Wood. But it was not just the wind that was full of hot air; the entire…topic/shitpostcreative
  13. Turkey Province Names and RootThe historical spellings are broadly checkable against the State Archives’ Osmanlı Yer Adları. Modern administrative changes are documented by the Interior…topic/geographytopic/statelinguistics
  14. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"The year was 1795. The Battle of Nuʻuanu was raging, and King Kamehameha I stood at the edge of the towering cliffs of Oʻahu. Below him, the forces of…topic/shitpostcreativehistory/early modern
  15. Final Fantasy VII RefusalThe sprawling metropolis of Midgar is powered by Mako—the lifeblood of the planet, aggressively extracted by the Shinra Electric Power Company. Enter…topic/shitpostgame/final fantasy vii
  16. The Boy Who LiftedMr. and Mrs. Vernon Twigg, of number four, Sedentary Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly soft, thank you very much. They were the last people…topic/shitpostharry potter
  17. The Boy Who Lifted (中文)住在久坐路四号的弗农·特维格先生和太太总是得意地说，他们是再松软不过的人了，多谢关心。他们无论怎么看，都不像是身上能找出哪怕一根横纹肌纤维的人，因为他们压根儿不赞成那种胡闹。topic/shitpostharry potterlanguage/zh cn
  18. Golden HordeNo Mongol successor state stands taller. From his new capital of Sarai al-Jadid on the Volga, Öz Beg Khan rules the largest realm west of China — the steppe…history/medievaltopic/state
  19. IlkhanateThe name is the mission statement: Ilkhan means something like "subordinate khan," a polite fiction that Hülegü's house was merely the Toluid family's western…history/medievaltopic/state
  20. Attempto Controlled EnglishEveryone hates natural language and its ambiguity (maybe except your manager), because ambiguity is where responsibilities go to die. "The customer entered…topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languagescomputer-science/natural language processing
  21. Five Gays and Five StraightsARLINGTON, VA — In what industry analysts are calling "the most unnecessary corporate restructuring in fast food history," Five Guys Burgers and Fries…topic/shitpostcreative
  22. Chagatai KhanateAlone among the heirs of Genghis, the house of Chagatai still holds its founder's whole inheritance — on the map, at least. The reality is uglier. Three years…history/medievaltopic/state
  23. Ripley's Get It or Not!ORLANDO, Fla. — In a bold move to disrupt the gig economy and terrify hungry people nationwide, Ripley Entertainment announced Thursday its entry into the…topic/shitpostcreative
  24. The Black DeathThen his army begins to die. Not of arrows, not of hunger—of swellings. Men wake with black lumps in the groin and armpit and are corpses by the third day.…history/medievaltopic/health
  25. Timurid EmpireHere's the catch: he was not a blood Genghisid, so by steppe law he could never legally call himself Khan. His workaround was a masterpiece of bureaucratic…topic/statehistory/medieval
  26. 孔融和恐龙的故事融年十岁，特聪慧。时有大异自天而降，轰震如雷，庭墙皆崩。topic/shitpostcreative
  27. Martian invasion and git schemeThe terminal cursor blinked on Linus’s monitor, a rhythmic green heartbeat in the dark room. It was 3:14 AM.topic/shitpostcreative
  28. Gale-Shapley Algorithm
  29. The Hidden Logic of HTTP Status CodesHTTP status codes are the "shorthand" of the internet. Defined by RFC 9110 (and its predecessors), these three-digit integers allow servers and browsers to…topic/technology
  30. The Pirate Game and Generalized Backward InductionThe Pirate Game is a famous puzzle in game theory that perfectly illustrates the concept of backward induction—solving a problem by working backward from the…topic/sciencecomputer-science/game theory
  31. Deep Double Descent: Why Bigger Models (Sometimes) Fail Before They WinDeep Double Descent is a phenomenon in neural network training where test error follows a non-monotonic "W-shaped" curve. As model complexity, data size, or…computer-science/machine learningstatisticscomputer-science/optimization
  32. FF外から失礼するゾ (玉音)「FF外から失礼するゾ」を、玉音放送で読まれた『大東亞戰爭終結ノ詔書』風の勅語体に寄せました。個人宛てのクソリプを、国家非常時の重大布告のように扱うところが主眼です。topic/shitpostlinguisticscreative
  33. Model Abliteration: Geometric Surgery on Refusal MechanismsModel Abliteration is a weight-editing technique that removes specific high-level concepts (typically "refusal") from an LLM by orthogonalizing the model's…computer-science/machine learningmathematics/linear algebra
  34. The Physics and Mathematics of Musical TuningThe baseline for modern musical tuning is A4 = 440 Hz.music theorytopic/sciencephysicsacoustics
  35. The Primate "Monolith" ObsessionResearchers recently decided to see what happens when you give chimpanzees shiny minerals like quartz and calcite. The result? Total primate obsession. The…primatologytopic/trivia
  36. ZFCBefore the 1900s, Georg Cantor's "Naive Set Theory" ran on a single, extremely permissive axiom of unrestricted comprehension: If you can describe a property,…topic/sciencemathematics/set theorymathematics/logic
  37. ArminiyaAt first, the Caliphs were content with a "hands-off" approach—letting Armenian princes (nakharars) run the show in exchange for tribute and loyalty. But…history/medievaltopic/state
  38. Eclipse AttackIn a decentralized network like Bitcoin, security relies on the assumption of perfect information—that everyone can observe the proofs-of-work and the true…computer-science/distributed systemscomputer-science/securitytopic/science
  39. Byzantine General's ProblemBefore we talk about servers, let's talk about the people who framed the problem. The Byzantine Generals Problem was formally introduced in a landmark 1982…computer-science/game theorycomputer-science/distributed systemstopic/science
  40. IMP LanguageIf the Lambda Calculus is an elegant mathematical dream where everything is a pure, side-effect-free function evaluating to a value, IMP is the blue-collar…topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languages
  41. Khazar KhaganateSandwiched between two aggressive, expansionist superpowers—the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Umayyad/Abbasid Caliphates—the Khazars played the…history/medievaltopic/state
  42. Lambda CalculusIn modern programming, we are used to defining named functions that operate on built-in data types. For example, in Python:topic/sciencecomputer-science/programming languages
  43. Proof of WorkPBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) relies on knowing exactly how many nodes (N) exist, so it can calculate that 2/3rds threshold. But in a…topic/sciencecomputer-science/distributed systemscomputer-science/game theorycomputer-science/cryptography
  44. Substitution CipherImagine you have two identical sets of the alphabet. You lay them side-by-side and draw arrows from the first set to the second. As long as every letter…computer-science/cryptography
  45. A Retail Investor's Spell bookNo capital required, just time and dignity.topic/shitpostcreativepersonal financegame/dnd
  46. When did Rome fell The Alignment Grid<table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Lawful Good</strong><br>476 AD<br><em>The Definition.</em></td> <td><strong>Neutral Good</strong><br>1806…creativetopic/shitposthistory/late antiquityhistory/antiquityhistory/medievalhistory/early modern
  47. EU5 Loading Screen ArtsIn October 1517, priest and scholar Martin Luther reportedly nailed his Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to the door of All Saints'…game/europa universalishistory/medievalhistory/early modern
  48. Price DiscriminationFirst Degree Price Discrimination (FDPD) is the term describing a situation where a seller charges each customer the maximum price they are willing to pay for…economics/microeconomicstopic/science
  49. Byzantine EmpireThe empire of the Romans is a thousand years old and shrinking by the season, but its young emperor refuses to preside over a museum. Andronikos III, who won…history/medievalhistory/late antiquitytopic/state
  50. Greco-Bactria KingdomWhile the other Hellenistic kings were busy fighting over the Mediterranean, Diodotus I looked at the Seleucid Empire’s chaos and decided he was done with the…history/ancienttopic/state
  51. 1587, A Year of No Significance (万历十五年)1587 was not a year where nothing happened, but a year where nothing that happened mattered. Ray Huang’s classic work of "Macro-History" argues that by 1587,…topic/bookhistory/early modern
  52. CRISPR-Cas9 Spongebob StoryThe mechanism of CRISPR-Cas9 represents the most significant leap in molecular biology since the PCR revolution. At its core, the system utilizes a guide RNA…topic/shitpostcreativebiology
  53. A Buffalo Wing VigilanteBy day, Arthur "Artie" Penhaligon was the definition of "market cattle." He spent twelve hours a day staring at flickering green and red candles, a mid-level…topic/shitpostcreativefinance
  54. Kelly CriterionIn the long run, volatility acts as a mathematical drag on wealth: even with a positive average return, excessive variance reduces your compound growth rate,…finance/kelly criterionfinance/volality dragcomputer-science/game theorymathematics/probabilitiestopic/science
  55. Religions - A Decision Tree ViewQ: Is there an ultimate reality?worldviewtheologyontologymetaphysics
  56. The Mystery of Fu LinIn Chinese historiography, "Fu Lin" (拂菻) is the name to be given to a great western empire that succeeded "Da Qin" during the Tang and Song dynasties (c.…historiographylinguisticstopic/statehistory/medieval
  57. Toxicology of Heavy Metals: A Comprehensive ArchiveHeavy metal toxicology is the study of how dense elements sabotage biological systems. Unlike organic toxins, heavy metals are elemental; they cannot be…chemistrybiologytoxicologytopic/health
  58. Historical Analysis: The Prester John MythosPrester John was a synthetic geopolitical myth constructed by Medieval Europe to reconcile strategic anxiety with fragmented intelligence. He was not a…history/orientalismhistoriographyhistory/medievaltopic/mythtopic/persongeopolitics

2025

  1. CK-style historical soap drama Ep. 1The wind from the desert carried the taste of ash. It was the taste of defeat.topic/shitpostcreativehistory/medievalgame/crusader kings
  2. DaliThe Dali Kingdom was caught completely off guard. The last king, Duan Xingzhi (段兴智), was captured but—in typical Dali fashion—wasn't executed. The Mongols…
  3. Holy Roman Empire'Ce corps qu’on appelle et qui s’appelle encore le Saint-Empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire' -- Voltaire (1756)historiographyhistory/medievalpolitical sciencehistory/early moderntopic/state
  4. Ottoman EmpireThe son of Osman is proving to be something more dangerous than a raider: an administrator. From his new capital at Bursa — taken by patient blockade rather…history/medievalhistory/early moderntopic/state
  5. Saruhan BeylikFrom Manisa, in the shadow of Mount Sipylus, the old ghazi Saruhan Bey rules a small state with a long reach. Denied land to conquer — Ottomans to the north,…history/medievaltopic/state
  6. Story about Roman heir trash TV showHOST: Janus (The two-faced Roman god, wearing a sharp suit but with a prosthetic face on the back of his head that occasionally whispers insults).topic/shitpostcreativehistory/medievalhistory/early modernhistory/modern