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AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•1m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•6m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•7m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
2•saubeidl•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•11m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•14m ago•0 comments

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
1•nookeshkarri7•16m ago•1 comments

nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•18m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•21m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•28m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•35m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•37m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•39m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
2•lelanthran•40m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•45m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•51m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
7•michaelchicory•56m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•1h ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•1h ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
2•calcifer•1h ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•1h ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
4•MilnerRoute•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•1h ago•3 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•4d ago
There was ancient Egypt and Greece. But isn't ancient Iran = Persia?

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

Tuna-Fish•4d 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•4d 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•4d 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•4d 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•4d ago
You are ignoring for example the Medes and Elam.
adrian_b•4d 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•4d ago
Ancient Iran is correct
mci•4d 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•4d ago
Ancient texts weren't just mythic or didactic, they were playful, experimental, and self-aware about narrative mechanics
cml123•4d 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