Linear A decipherment open-sourced
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Test the proposed Semitic reading yourself and see all the work behind it
HN · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: machine learning developer tools · 303 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
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- Education
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No The website is a showcase for a novel scholarly claim: a Semitic decipherment of Linear A. The software (corpus site, lexicon, sign list) is easy to build, but the substance is original philological research that depends on expert judgment about an undeciphered script.
What it would actually take: A real version needs Aegean and Semitic philology expertise to propose and defend sign values and translations, plus a reconciled corpus merged from GORILA, RILA, SigLA and lineara.xyz. The web and CLI tooling is the easy part. The hard part is peer-reviewed linguistic argument that holds up against specialists.
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