Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stuff You Should Know: What is Exploding Head Syndrome?
It's not as weird as it sounds, but worth learning about
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stuff You Should Know: What is Exploding Head Syndrome? launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Scopaesthesia is a widespread illusion.
2015 · its alternatives →
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- 3ASAutism Simulator▲779
Hey all, I built this. It’s not trying to capture every autistic experience (that’d be impossible). It’s based on my own lived experience as well as that of friends on the spectrum. I'm trying to give people a feel for what masking, decision fatigue, and burnout can look like day-to-day. That’s hard to explain in words, but easier to show through choices and stats. I'm not trying to "define autism". I’ve gotten good feedback here about resilience, meds, and difficulty tuning. I’ll keep tweaking it. If even a few people walk away thinking, "ah, maybe that’s why my coworker struggles in those…
Oct 2025 · autism-simulator.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name's Robert Escriva. I got my PhD from Cornell's Computer Science department back in 2017. And three years ago I had a psychotic episode that irreversibly shook up my world. Since then I've been applying a skill I learned in grad school---namely, debugging distributed and complex systems---to my own mind. What I've found I've put into a [book (pdf)](https://rescrv.net/engineering-schizophrenia.pdf) on engineering, my particular schizophrenic delusions, and how people who suffer as I once did can find a way through the fog to the other side. This is not a healing…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
- 5ANA new spline▲341
I’ve been heads-down for the last month or so working on a new spline, and now I’m excited to show it to the world. It is a continuation of the Spiro work I did for my PhD thesis, and solves most of the problems that held that back from wider popularity.
2018 · raphlinus.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN,<p>I've posted a couple times here before (mostly within posts pertaining to Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor) and I wanted to share a site I've been working on for the past 5 months or so that recently went live. I'm going on my fifth year of being an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia survivor, and while I didn't need a bone marrow transplant myself at one point it was a very real possibility. At that time I became aware of the lack of minority bone marrow donors and made a promise to myself to try to do something about it if I were to survive. This site is something of a…
2012 · cheekswab.org · its alternatives →
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Hi guys, I built a site to solve a couple of my problems regarding sleep, and thought you guys might like it too. It's called WakeMyself, and here's the URL: http://www.wakemyself.com Have you ever overslept despite the alarm and wished "Damn, I wish I could go back in time and tell my stupid sleeping self to snap out of it." That's the basic idea behind WakeMyself. It lets you receive a wakeup call from your yesterday's self. Just leave a message, set an alarm, and you get a call from yesterday's self. Another problem I had: I really wanted to remember my dreams but always forget to…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Do you feel like a giant fraud?
2016 · its alternatives →
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The AI comedy hour: your daily dose of AI humor and wit
2023 · neural-nonsense.beehiiv.com · its alternatives →
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Hrishikesh Hirway (of Song Exploder) interviews the mysteri…
2015 · its alternatives →
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An amazing window into how mania, obsessions & bubbles form
2015 · its alternatives →
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This is our entry in the "spontaneous event creation" ring. I'd love to hear what HN readers think!
2011 · shoutfast.com · its alternatives →
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A trip to the morgue to see how someone died
2015 · its alternatives →
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Dive into the history of this mysterious disorder!
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and…
2023 · vectara.com · its alternatives →
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Be aware of what you are saying (and not saying).
2016 · its alternatives →
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Crazy expectations of the Bay Area and Imposter Syndrome.
2017 · its alternatives →
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