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Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-gods-and-languages-on-when-god-spoke-greek/
16•bryanrasmussen•1h ago

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itchingsphynx•56m ago
Note, this article is from 2013.

>We do well to remember that “scripture” and “canon” are different things, and of course we should never make the mistake of thinking that early Christians had Bibles like our own.

Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.

stavros•46m ago
It's so refreshing to see that there used to exist authors other than Claude.
geocar•4m ago
> Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.

You may enjoy the "map" on page two:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081031050603/http://www.tniv.c...

monideas•9m ago
The Septuagint was only the Torah (five Books of Moses). It wasn’t until much later that Greek translations of the rest of the Hebrew Bible were done. These are often referred to as the Septuagint but that is not accurate, these later translations were not done by some official group of 70 Rabbis.

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
811•u1hcw9nx•10h ago•340 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
186•zdw•4d ago•34 comments

Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-gods-and-languages-on-when-god-spoke-greek/
16•bryanrasmussen•1h ago•5 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
219•Cider9986•9h ago•105 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
120•contact9879•6h ago•162 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
151•herbertl•7h ago•53 comments

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/prehistory-lost-threads
53•knowablemag•2d ago•8 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
403•bookofjoe•18h ago•203 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
215•eigenspace•3d ago•19 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
125•ilamont•11h ago•177 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

144•david927•14h ago•438 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
773•iamflimflam1•14h ago•347 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
72•NaOH•3d ago•24 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
55•rasengan0•6h ago•11 comments

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

https://eterdb.com/
27•fdeth•3d ago•5 comments

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

https://calif.io/research/oempocalypse
40•negura•5h ago•9 comments

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
19•luu•2d ago•2 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
79•walrus01•11h ago•9 comments

Open-source AI and open models reading list

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
94•simonpure•7h ago•10 comments

Five Words from Vanishing Fleece

https://blog.wordnik.com/five-words-from-vanishing-fleece
3•dan353hehe•2d ago•0 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
158•chiassedu80•17h ago•84 comments

Who gets to define the rules for AI?

https://cohere.com/blog/who-gets-to-define-the-rules-for-ai
25•throwworhtthrow•2h ago•22 comments

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/
87•andsoitis•4h ago•106 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
26•akkartik•2d ago•6 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/
67•andsoitis•7h ago•46 comments

Airbnb Preventing the Use of BnB

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/portland-bnb-airbnb-silicon-valley-legal-battl...
22•cycomanic•2h ago•4 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
427•Levitating•17h ago•200 comments

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
45•andsoitis•10h ago•45 comments

Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

https://securityaffairs.com/197174/breaking-news/chess-com-leak-exposes-7-3-million-users-evidenc...
45•kristianp•4h ago•17 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
79•rzk•3d ago•19 comments