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How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/12/how-the-restoration-of-ancient-babylon-is-helping-to-draw-tourists-back-to-iraq
22•leoh•3h ago

Comments

eth0up•1h ago
Screw the tourists, bring in the archeologists, maybe start by resuming excavations at Eridu. 99% of our history is buried or looted. And the one or two Assyriologists in the world need new material to study.
nashashmi•1h ago
Tourism is such a wasteful tax on society. I met an Egyptologist who had been leading tours for two years so he could feed his family but he longed to go back to Egyptology and go and study the ruins even though it didn’t pay well
bcraven•9m ago
And after meeting that person you thought, "wow I wish this person didn't have an alternative income stream that allows them to feed their family"?

Many people in this world wish they could do something different with their lives, but to blame the activity they're currently doing is shortsighted.

roshin•42m ago
After several years, Iraqi Hezbollah recently released their Princeton researcher hostage (granted, she is a dual Israeli citizen). Maybe that will encourage more archeologists to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Tsurkov

breppp•23m ago
Lovely place to be kidnapped
aetherspawn•21m ago
There is a prophecy in the Bible that says Babylon will never successfully be rebuilt. Isa 13:19, 20.

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease
314•DaveZale•6h ago•111 comments

Pass: Unix Password Manager

https://www.passwordstore.org/
96•Bogdanp•5h ago•49 comments

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html
82•JdeBP•4h ago•25 comments

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

https://anycrap.shop/
801•kafked•16h ago•258 comments

AMD's RDNA4 GPU Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-rdna4-gpu-architecture-at-hot
75•rbanffy•7h ago•2 comments

Why you'd issue a branded stablecoin like McDonaldsCoin

https://text-incubation.com/Why+you%27d+issue+a+branded+stablecoin+like+McDonaldsCoin
5•krrishd•1h ago•0 comments

Recreating the US/* time zone situation

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/12/tz/
41•move-on-by•12h ago•25 comments

Lexy: A parser combinator library for C++17

https://github.com/foonathan/lexy
28•klaussilveira•3d ago•1 comments

The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works

https://mindthenerd.com/the-socratic-journal-method-a-simple-journaling-method-that-actually-works/
23•surprisetalk•3d ago•5 comments

Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL

https://signoz.io/blog/query-builder-v5/
42•ak_builds•3d ago•32 comments

High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)

https://studioq.com/blog/2021/5/30/high-altitude-living-8000-ft-and-above-2450-meters
8•walterbell•58m ago•2 comments

RIP pthread_cancel

https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/
164•robin_reala•11h ago•77 comments

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/
158•bitbrewer•13h ago•47 comments

RFC9460: SVCB and HTTPS DNS Records

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9460
28•codewiz•4h ago•2 comments

Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/
128•charles_irl•9h ago•87 comments

How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/12/how-the-restoration-of-ancient-babylon-is-helping-to-d...
22•leoh•3h ago•6 comments

How Ruby executes JIT code

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109•ciconia•4d ago•16 comments

Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/09/08/orange-rivers-signal-toxic-shift-arctic-wilderness
59•hbcondo714•2d ago•1 comments

Presence in VR should show tiny people, not user avatars (2022)

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6•andsoitis•3d ago•1 comments

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

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267•wallflower•13h ago•80 comments

My first impressions of Gleam

https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/
171•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•62 comments

SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

https://skiftos.org
439•ksec•23h ago•87 comments

EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

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72•walterbell•4h ago•24 comments

Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

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46•junkblocker•6h ago•32 comments

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111•river_dillon•14h ago•22 comments

Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

https://m17project.org/2025/08/18/first-linht-tests/
92•crcastle•4d ago•8 comments

The case against social media is stronger than you think

https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-is
172•ingve•9h ago•149 comments

Visual programming is stuck on the form

https://interjectedfuture.com/visual-programming-is-stuck-on-the-form/
4•iamwil•2h ago•0 comments

Magical systems thinking

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/magical-systems-thinking/
262•epb_hn•12h ago•81 comments

How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development

https://zachwills.net/how-to-use-claude-code-subagents-to-parallelize-development/
253•zachwills•4d ago•113 comments