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A Constitutional Scholar on Claude's Constitution

shervinafshar — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://newyorker.substack.com/p/a-constitutional-scholar-on-claudes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556949

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Claude, you are a cutie-pie

shervinafshar — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:15:08 +0000

Article URL: https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/claude-you-are-a-cutie-pie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373589

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by shervinafshar in "Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes"

shervinafshar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:18:47 +0000

Github[1] page says it's intended to "feel" like Ghostty:

> A native macOS note-taking app that feels like Ghostty — GPU-accelerated, keyboard-first, monospace, zero-config.

[1]: https://github.com/mimoo/ghostmd

New comment by shervinafshar in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

shervinafshar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:43:00 +0000

Love it. No Infinite Cavapoo Theorem needed. Give Momo a week and she'll have DOOM running on her treat dispenser.

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

shervinafshar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:39:29 +0000

Article URL: https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927707

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shervinafshar in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

shervinafshar — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:39:13 +0000

I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".

New comment by shervinafshar in "Helsing AI"

shervinafshar — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:26:08 +0000

Jon Gjengset—among other things, the author of Rust for Rustaceans—works for this company and talks about them occasionally answering questions during his recurring Q&As; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0&t=10616s

New comment by shervinafshar in "Sins of the Children"

shervinafshar — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:47:21 +0000

> One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there.

One recommendation: Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora: We went there. It didn't work. We came back. We did good and bad things to each other along the way. It was beautiful and painful.

Ontology and Information Systems - Encyclopedia of Philosophy

shervinafshar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:01:46 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontology-is/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535117

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Well: State of the World 2026

shervinafshar — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:27:12 +0000

Article URL: https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515407

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by shervinafshar in "SF's Claude Passed Away"

shervinafshar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:50:50 +0000

All these "have died"[1] and yet Claude the alligator "passed away". RIP.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died

New comment by shervinafshar in "A Fond Farewell"

shervinafshar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:30:14 +0000

But if you'd like to see a sample of _Old_ Farmer's Almanac, their 2026 issue could be accessed here: https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/TheOldFarmersAlmanac/issu...

I always enjoy reading through those tabulated stuff; see pp. 280-281.

New comment by shervinafshar in "End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled"

shervinafshar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:02:07 +0000

> At a 2017 conference, MBS illustrated his vision for Neom by comparing two phones. [...] a Nokia 215 phone next to a traditional city layout and an iPhone next to The Line’s vertical layout.

I think there is a lot to be learned just from this single vignette.

New comment by shervinafshar in "A Fond Farewell"

shervinafshar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:52:45 +0000

Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.

New comment by shervinafshar in "Wikipedia: Ship of Thesus: Edit Analytics"

shervinafshar — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:54:43 +0000

Harper's Index [1]:

> Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052

> Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0

[1]: https://harpers.org/harpers-index/

Wikipedia: Ship of Thesus: Edit Analytics

shervinafshar — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Ship_of_Theseus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543064

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shervinafshar in "Show HN: AI or Human"

shervinafshar — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:26:40 +0000

```It's just a feeling I get when I think about it.<｜beginofsentence｜>```

Definitely not human; the bug is though.

New comment by shervinafshar in "Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation"

shervinafshar — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:04:12 +0000

Ditto about the quality of intro. One way to show that "meat" without sharing some arbitrary number of chapters could have been to also include some of the back matter of the book (index, bibliography, etc.) in the sample. For example, I'm reading this:

> If coding really is like sorcery, what does this mean for how we think about computers?

and wondering whether Abelson/Sussman sort of wizardry makes an appearance or not.

New comment by shervinafshar in "Ask HN: What zoom level do you browse HN at?"

shervinafshar — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:09:32 +0000

On desktop on 133% at the moment. Can tolerate 120%, but the default is too small of a text size for me.

New comment by shervinafshar in "HathiTrust Digital Library"

shervinafshar — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:28:15 +0000

Thanks for your volunteer work for Standard Ebooks!