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Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
1•atomic128•1m ago•0 comments

Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

http://web.whatsapp.com
1•sabujp•2m ago•1 comments

Google in Your Terminal

https://gogcli.sh/
1•johlo•3m ago•0 comments

Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•4m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

https://www.scworld.com/news/anthropic-latest-claude-model-finds-more-than-500-vulnerabilities
1•Bender•8m ago•0 comments

Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-human-composting/
1•geox•8m ago•0 comments

Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles

https://epkconsulting.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-and-the-problem-of
1•qingsworkshop•11m ago•0 comments

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/malicious-packages-for-dydx-cryptocurrency-exchange-empt...
1•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a <400ms latency voice agent that runs on a 4gb vram GTX 1650"

https://github.com/pheonix-delta/axiom-voice-agent
1•shubham-coder•11m ago•0 comments

Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/penisgate-erupts-at-olympics-scandal-exposes-risks-of-bulk...
4•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Arcan Explained: A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
1•fanf2•13m ago•0 comments

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•14m ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•16m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•19m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•20m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•23m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•27m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•27m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•28m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•28m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•32m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•32m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•38m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•39m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece

https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0016
48•bryanrasmussen•1w ago

Comments

throwaway290•5d ago
There was ancient Egypt and Greece. But isn't ancient Iran = Persia?

Like you wouldn't call (Kievan) Rus' "ancient Russia"

Tuna-Fish•5d ago
No.

Persia as a word for the whole region is an exonym, derived of the name of a single province and the people who lived in it. Iran is the endonym that the people living in the area have understood to refer to the entire area for millennia.

It's like calling the Netherlands Holland. Everyone understands what you are talking about, but it is definitely not very precise, and some people from the region might take an exception to it. Fine for conversational use, not so much in academic literature. You might talk about the Persian Empire when referring to the Achaeminids or the Sassanids, but that comes with the understanding that while the ruling class is Persian, they rule over an empire of people, many of which are Iranian but not Persian.

kqr•5d ago
Other such examples include confusing Monte Carlo for Monaco and saying Bohemia when talking about Czechia. During the cold war, the word Russia often got to stand in for the entirety of the Soviet Union.
madcaptenor•5d ago
England still stands in for the UK sometimes.
bryanrasmussen•4d ago
Example from In The Loop (nsfw language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvr7rFzarYs

FarmerPotato•4d ago
And then there's the opposite: using America for the USA. As an "American" I always found this weird, because Canada and Mexico and how about South America... Then there's Sp. norteamericano used in Mexico as if Mexico were not on the North America continent.

Names have familiar uses, besides the technical.

throwaway290•5d ago
> You might talk about the Persian Empire when referring to the Achaeminids or the Sassanids, but that comes with the understanding that while the ruling class is Persian

not exactly. Persians are also majority of people in what's now called Iran (just like Russians are majority in Russia, this is the same naming pattern as for many countries) and renaming is a result of an invasion. Talking about "ancient Iran" before it Muslims arrived is talking about Persia

Tuna-Fish•5d ago
You are ignoring for example the Medes and Elam.
adrian_b•5d ago
Persia is an exonym, but Greece and Egypt are also exonyms (Greeks and Greece was how Romans called them, not how they called themselves, while Egypt was the name used by Greeks, not by the natives of Egypt).

When talking about ancient people and countries, it is hard to avoid using exonyms, as they are usually much better known than whatever names may have been used by natives. In many cases such names have been discovered only relatively recently, during the last century, so they are known mostly by professionals and they are rarely found in popular literature. Moreover, frequently for the native names there is a much greater uncertainty about their original pronunciation than for exonyms.

kowlo•5d ago
Ancient Iran is correct
mci•5d ago
Interesting. Apion's description of the pessoi game mentioned in the Odyssey: flicking pebbles toward the Penelope-pebble convinces me more than translating pessoi as draughts. The problem with Apion's description is:

- There were 108 suitors (we know this from the Odyssey 16.245-254 [1]).

- All that Homer told us is: They were gladdening their hearts at pessoi in front of the doors, sitting on the hides of oxen which they themselves had slain (the Odyssey 1.106-108 [2]).

- You can't have 108 sitting men play the same game of marbles.

IMHO, pessoi was a 1:1 game and it was not a board game.

[1] https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Od.+16.24...

[2] https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Od.+1.106...

KurSix•5d ago
Ancient texts weren't just mythic or didactic, they were playful, experimental, and self-aware about narrative mechanics
cml123•5d ago
I've played Senet regularly for over 15 years. I was working over the holidays on a GNOME Senet game which I hope to put out there soon. I think it strikes a fun balance between chance and strategy. It probably won't appease chess die-hards on the complexity front, but for casual gameplay it's nice.
defrim•4d ago
thank you for introducing me; i've never realized just how old some board games are. Even in rural eastern europe, my extended family has been playing "Nine Man's Morris" for decades, which I now know was likely a cultural custom there for centuries because of its history. I just thought it was some game they made up lol! Extremely cool