Gnosis Evolve MCP for Claude Desktop(github.com)

12 points by kordlessagain 1 year ago | 0 comments

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain(openread.academy)

144 points by cryptozeus 1 year ago | 91 comments

Soviet Maps (2021)(twitter.com)

29 points by georgecmu 1 year ago | 4 comments

Anatomy of BoltzGen(huggingface.co)

29 points by danielfalbo 9 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps(borderhold.io)

43 points by sgolem 7 months ago | 20 comments

The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product(kanfa.macbudkowski.com)

219 points by kiwieater 7 months ago | 291 comments

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student(scrollprize.org)

1095 points by razin 3 years ago | 204 comments

Vesuvius Challenge announcement that a 21-year-old computer science student discovered the first word read inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll.

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll(scrollprize.org)

1287 points by amrrs 2 years ago | 200 comments

Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.

Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved(newsingermany.com)

336 points by janpot 3 years ago | 164 comments

News article reporting that archaeologists in Germany found an exceptionally well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword.

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)

160 points by benbreen 1 month ago | 38 comments

A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.

Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan(veiledantiquity.com)

4 points by darkwater 15 days ago | 0 comments

Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.