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Conscious experience, perception, imagination, mindfulness, and theories of mind.

7,038 stories · 86 in 30 days · Updated Sep 28, 2026

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026973 stories
Attention is all you have↗ alicegg.tech · HN · 330 comments · 1084 points · Sep 21, 2026
An Alien Mind↗ openai.com · HN · 470 comments · 495 points · Sep 06, 2026
Bug Blindness↗ danluu.com · HN · 287 comments · 407 points · Aug 30, 2026
The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing↗ ergosphere.blog · HN · 630 comments · 991 points · Apr 05, 2026
The Cognitive Dark Forest↗ ryelang.org · HN · 275 comments · 575 points · Mar 29, 2026
20251,092 stories
Unexpected things that are people↗ bengoldhaber.substack.com · HN · 300 comments · 658 points · Nov 10, 2025
Claude Memory↗ anthropic.com · HN · 312 comments · 559 points · Oct 23, 2025
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself↗ henrikkarlsson.xyz · HN · 223 comments · 773 points · Sep 04, 2025
Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic↗ github.com · HN · 340 comments · 568 points · Jul 22, 2025
The Death of Daydreaming↗ afterbabel.com · HN · 265 comments · 707 points · May 05, 2025
20241,125 stories
The quiet art of attention↗ billwear.github.io · HN · 279 comments · 875 points · Oct 13, 2024
The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown↗ zarar.dev · HN · 266 comments · 435 points · Aug 20, 2024
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)↗ scentofdawn.blogspot.com · HN · 312 comments · 691 points · May 24, 2024
Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions↗ blog.stackblitz.com · HN · 163 comments · 386 points · Apr 25, 2024
A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'↗ maphappenings.com · HN · 207 comments · 982 points · Apr 16, 2024
20231,028 stories
Ambient Co-Presence↗ maggieappleton.com · HN · 38 comments · 106 points · Dec 31, 2023
Fake It 'Til You Fake It↗ pxlnv.com · HN · 112 comments · 175 points · Dec 25, 2023
They want you to forget what a film looks like↗ aftermath.site · HN · 213 comments · 310 points · Dec 23, 2023
Watching the world↗ webcamaze.engineering.zhaw.ch · HN · 3 comments · 66 points · Dec 22, 2023
How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind’s Eye↗ photographyinsider.info · HN · 10 comments · 32 points · Sep 30, 2023
2022941 stories
Body Doubling↗ bodydoubling.com · HN · 199 comments · 325 points · Nov 05, 2022
Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory↗ singularityhub.com · HN · 322 comments · 376 points · Oct 26, 2022
Someone’s Been Messing with My Subnormals↗ moyix.blogspot.com · HN · 127 comments · 442 points · Sep 06, 2022
You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes↗ everything2.com · HN · 116 comments · 385 points · Jul 27, 2022
We need to reclaim our attention↗ theguardian.com · HN · 448 comments · 636 points · Jan 02, 2022
2021879 stories
Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works↗ livescience.com · HN · 238 comments · 737 points · Dec 10, 2021
The Problem with Perceptual Hashes↗ rentafounder.com · HN · 418 comments · 705 points · Aug 06, 2021
Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born↗ news.yale.edu · HN · 183 comments · 578 points · Jul 26, 2021
Why we're blind to the color blue↗ calebkruse.com · HN · 211 comments · 575 points · Jul 16, 2021
Apt Encounters of the Third Kind↗ igor-blue.github.io · HN · 146 comments · 701 points · Mar 26, 2021
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How I remember what I learn↗ vasilishynkarenka.com · HN · 125 comments · 556 points · Oct 06, 2020
Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 719 comments · 961 points · May 12, 2020
Learning to See in the Dark (2018)↗ github.com · HN · 170 comments · 645 points · Apr 17, 2020
I have seen things↗ muratbuffalo.blogspot.com · HN · 315 comments · 577 points · Mar 07, 2020
Not everyone has an internal monologue↗ ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com · HN · 875 comments · 1225 points · Jan 30, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Attention is all you have↗ alicegg.tech · HN · 330 comments · 1084 points · Sep 21, 2026
An Alien Mind↗ openai.com · HN · 470 comments · 495 points · Sep 06, 2026
People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination↗ dailyneuron.com · HN · 312 comments · 224 points · Sep 14, 2026
Bug Blindness↗ danluu.com · HN · 287 comments · 407 points · Aug 30, 2026
Recursion into madness↗ blog.coredump.cx · HN · 31 comments · 105 points · Sep 07, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Attention is all you have↗ alicegg.tech · HN · 330 comments · 1084 points · Sep 21, 2026
An Alien Mind↗ openai.com · HN · 470 comments · 495 points · Sep 06, 2026
Bug Blindness↗ danluu.com · HN · 287 comments · 407 points · Aug 30, 2026
People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination↗ dailyneuron.com · HN · 312 comments · 224 points · Sep 14, 2026
Recursion into madness↗ blog.coredump.cx · HN · 31 comments · 105 points · Sep 07, 2026
“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy”↗ unsung.aresluna.org · HN · 27 comments · 67 points · Aug 29, 2026
We are unconsciously becoming someone else↗ souravinsights.com · HN · 43 comments · 43 points · Sep 19, 2026
If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious↗ jstor.org · HN · 103 comments · 35 points · Sep 18, 2026
Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 20 comments · 26 points · Sep 13, 2026
Recursion into Madness↗ blog.coredump.cx · HN · 2 comments · 16 points · Sep 08, 2026

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