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HieraticBench

Can AI read ancient Egyptian handwriting?

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points · traction gained Oct 12, 18:53 UTC → Oct 13, 17:00 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+

Traction frozen — tracking ended at 166h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.

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listed Oct 6, 19:22 UTC

Traction (points) over time

5 readings (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction: 4points
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Rank in AITL this week: —not listed in the last 7 days
Rank overall this week: —
Sector hit rate: 10.0%6/60 · 7D
Traction line: Below10+ points
First reading: 4Oct 10, 11:16 UTC
Last reading: 4Oct 13, 17:00 UTC
Readings: 5over 166h

Launch-day race · #23 of 176 Show HN launches on 2026-10-06

#21Solus4 points
#22StatLite4 points
#23HieraticBench4 points
#24An MCP server that finds text your agent reads and you can't see4 points
#25Pixel-exact HTML-to-PDF in the browser, no Puppeteer or server4 points

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Data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works