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Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bayeux-tapestry-return-england-british-museum

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Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/us-senator-lindsey-graham-dies/a-77921386

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Article URL: https://mailkite.dev/blog/parse-inbound-email-to-json-node/

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Article URL: https://github.com/smithandrewjohn/kindalive

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10747-6

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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0l5d5xn7o

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Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-at-81-266555461760

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Article URL: https://bgchanger.video/

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Okay this is very weird and even weirder to post to HN, but I don't know where else to share it (and I don't use most 'social media') and I'm really quite intrigued with what I've found, and would like the help of the community to determine how what I found is even possible.

I'll try to keep the description brief - as you'll be able to test this yourself and determine your own theories for the cause of this.

So I'm browsing YouTube and come across one of a zillion channels that looks clickbaity - 'Hook Global'. (This is NOT a promotion for it. In fact, I'm suspicious they're apart of what I've discovered.) Out of curiosity, I do on a rare occasion go to a channel's page and read their Description. As expected, this one has the atypical droll self-promotion.

I wanted to find out more about them, so a typical Google search I did. Down the rabbit-hole we go...

I had to do query:

> `"Hook Global" -site:youtube.com`

being they're a YT channel. My first search result showed a Linkedin item, which I later learned is their company page on LI. Skipping that! - for now.

Curiously, my second result was exactly this: https://www.hoover.org/research/michael-mcfaul-whether-us-helps-ukraine-comes-down-idiosyncrasies-mad-king

The only reason I clicked this link is that in GSearch's (what is it called - 'result summary'?), part of the "intext" is -

> "Go to channel Hook Global"

More on this in a moment.

For me, clicking on that link redirects IMMEDIATELY to a Youtube vid, even though the url is what you see above. The redirect is not even a channel for the link's host-site; instead to another channel.

(FYI I'm using Firefox with DoH configured, on Windows, and uBlock (the Manifest v2 version) with a ton of filter subscriptions - one or two of which remove tracking parameters.)

I thought this redirect must be a fluke, so I opened the link in a private window...Same redirect, to the same vid.

Okay, you might be thinking 'So what?'

Well, I did more gsearch queries (too much to describe here - except one, the LI page confirms 'Hook Global' webpage as 'hook.online' which redirects to 'hooknews.com', site for "Hook Media Network")

but ultimately this query is what I really want to report:

> `"Go to channel Hook Global" -site:youtube.com`

And this is what's stunning: (nearly) every search result is a hard-redirect to a Youtube video.

Not even to the Hook Global channel. Seems the videos are related to the search-result's Title, or to the site's owner. (I haven't done enough test to be conclusive.)

Try it yourself, to really appreciate what I'm describing. Here are some search results that came up on just Page 1:

https://cew.georgetown.edu/about-cew/

https://www.uticaschools.org/news/1822826/a-special-message-from-dr-spence-reflecting-on-black-history-month-2026

https://www.hoover.org/research/trumps-latest-bomb-watch-stanford-professors-blunt-take-sumit-ganguly-exclusive-h1-b

http://dartgo.org/250blackhawklive

https://z.umn.edu/ug-livestream26

https://www.jesuitnola.org/2026/02/27/dear-blue-jay-welcome-to-jesuit/

https://on.nyc.gov/44wHbdO

Finally, I did switch over to Chrome, which also has uBlock, and a different DoH server configured - same effect. (Curiously most of the results had '/link/' in their URL path.)

I also went to my phone and ran the query via Chrome (yes, I'm bad, I need to disable/hide it and use Firefox Mobile. Sorry!), passing thru an on-device VPN - same effect.

So... What? How? Why? Anyone else seeing the same effect? Is it some kind of SEO blackhat/darkweb at play?

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/12/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878908

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Article URL: https://defragzone.substack.com/p/the-ten-commandments-of-ai-usage

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Article URL: https://open.spotify.com/track/50mUiidUauqseqtm2Kr7U6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878861

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Article URL: https://github.com/ktock/llmlet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878859

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39hBPOk9Hk

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Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/msk-ai-cto-agent/id6778822216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878839

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Article URL: https://rwhu.helluvaos.com/posts/what-to-eat-as-a-dog-inside-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878836

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/06/why-anthropic-alleges-chinese-firms-are-distilling-knowledge-claude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878812

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I have Fable guardrails trigger on seemingly innocuous questions. Two examples: a) What is Echium b)I want you to deep dive on coffee and it’s effect on health, cognition and longevity. The output should be something that tells you areas where the evidence is strong and where it is weak but plausible and where there is no strong evidence. Does anyone know why this happens? I have many such examples where it will randomly switch models.

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My past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser.

Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has given me permission to post my homemade electronic copy of the game (initially built so that i could print-and-play a copy with "US-Mini" size cards), and recently sent me (much to my surprise) the publisher's official graphical assets and an invitation to use them in this little side-project(!!!).

The version housed at that link has a known bug or two (there's one too many 7-cent W's, for one thing) but it's otherwise believed to be usable for its intended purpose: allowing an experienced Paperback player to sit and play solo mode without the app interfering rules- or dictionary-wise. (My only real fuss about their official app is the locked dictionary. It does not allow the word "pawn", nor a wide range of other perfectly viable words. Secondarily, i'd like to be able to customize the game more and remove all of those annoying "Q" cards (who buys "Q" cards?!?!?).)

Currently resetting the game requires reloading the page, which generates a ready-to-run game setup. See the top of that page for URL arguments which change various options (if you want huge "US Standard"-sized cards on a 32-inch 4k screen, pass the "big" URL option). UI widgets for doing that are on the near-term TODO list. It does not currently support saving/loading, but that's underway (and very closely tied to the game state reset).

It's in active development and i'm particularly interested in squeezing the UI down to fit more comfortably on a 10-inch table (where it's usable but a tiny bit fidgety due to scrolling). It's way, way too big for phones, though.

This is part of a larger project consolidating 6 or 8 years' worth of disparate card-generation tools for tabletop games, and this app is the first "end user" app (as opposed to maintainer apps) written for that toolkit. It may well be the only app i've written, in 30-odd years, which is not entirely dog-ugly.

Happy Spelling!

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Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-ai-found-a-root-bug-in-linux-that-everyone-missed-for-15-years/

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