Show HN: Sortes Alearum – a web emulator for an ancient Roman dice oracle

Hi HN, one of the authors here -- me and my wife made this based on English translations of inscriptions found on stone pillars in Turkey. There's more historical background and citations on the page.

It's built using Svelte and Typescript, hosted on Vercel.

Happy to answer any other questions!

Sometimes I wonder if the prevalence of random chance in the guise of determining if an action had the favor of the gods (here with dice but there were plenty of other ways) helped Rome succeed and if we should implement similar randomness into governance today. I.e. roll the dice to determine which bills go up for a vote today

Given how much bullshit politicking has taken over legislation, a bit of randomness might do us good.