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• By Muromec 2026-03-0222:341 reply

  Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.

  By DiscourseFan 2026-03-0223:00

  But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.

• By varjag 2026-03-0220:562 reply

  Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.

  By hirsin 2026-03-0221:093 reply

  https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.

  By Groxx 2026-03-0222:121 reply

  And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

  By mijoharas 2026-03-0310:26

  This is brilliant.

  By flobosg 2026-03-0222:09

  Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224

  By dtj1123 2026-03-0313:34

  This belongs on the front page. I read it over an hour ago and my skin is still crawling.

  By throw310822 2026-03-038:501 reply

  Frankly it seems to be saying the exact same things except in five times as many words and a rather boring exposition, that contrasts with the cold but ominously normalizing one of Lena.

  By varjag 2026-03-0710:05

  Borges famously wrote there are only four stories, retold endlessly.

  I think this is an attempt to write a SF story in Lovecraftian mood (hence the language and setting). Lena is written as a hypothetical Wikipedia article.

• By nh23423fefe 2026-03-0219:35

  This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman