Bodily Oddities
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body phenomena reference
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Bodily Oddities
When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying…
vester.si#bodily phenomena#precordial catch syndrome#hypnagogic hallucinations#sleep paralysis#photic sneeze reflex
How HN took it
19 positive, 43 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 12 critical, out of 76 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, educational and wholesome resource.
From 2 comments
This is delightful! What a nice and wholesome resource.
phailhaus on HNLove this. Thank you for making something fun and educational.
scamdrill on HN
Interesting entries readers had never heard of.
From 2 comments
Such a great idea and implementation! I found out I had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child, after being sick with a 107+ fever -…
readergreader on HNAhhhhhh! Thank you for mentioning Precordial catch syndrome. I read about it some time ago, and experienced it several times, and then forgot what it was called. Even with the…
Retr0id on HN
Objections
Images are AI-generated and often malformed, such as hands with wrong finger counts.
From 2 comments
The artifacts from some of the AI-generated images are a pretty significant detraction. For a site with so many pictures of hands, so many of them being malformed or having the…
lpghatguy on HNThis is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the…
ksymph on HN
Text reads as LLM-written and looks vibe coded.
From 3 comments
Fascinating, but sadly LLM-assisted writing. edit: and apparently AI-generated site layout too. Either it doesn't bother me as much as the writing, or I haven't seen enough…
tripdout on HNI wonder about these sites that appear to be vibe coded from a simple prompt. Has the author even looked at the data or just did a little sample and figured that looks about…
IncreasePosts on HNAw, a vibe coded site. Give Claude a cookie.
tobadzistsini on HN
Sources lean on Wikipedia and some citations do not support the claim.
From 2 comments
This AI website has very weak sources for many pages. As they said in school (and is still valid here) - Wikipedia is never to be your primary citation. This website commits the…
VCFundedGenYer on HNI clicked on Supernumerary nipples. Interesting. In the Sources section, there’s a link to Mark Wahlberg’s Wikipedia page. There’s nothing about nipples on Mark Wahlberg’s…
khazhoux on HN
Requests
Add more oddities such as exploding head syndrome, supertasting fixes and other common experiences.
From 2 comments
You should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"
lelandbatey on HNSince you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite. Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
RobotToaster on HN
Review the AI images manually.
From 1 comment
This is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the…
ksymph on HN
Questions
How was the aesthetic made less AI-looking?
From 1 comment
Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?
bonsai_spool on HN
Is the hiccup cause known?
From 1 comment
Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)
amelius on HN