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New comment by shervinafshar in "Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix"

shervinafshar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:00:49 +0000

SEP entry on "Ontology and Information Systems" is a good start: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontology-is/

If the preference is for books, I can recommend "Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling for linked data, RDFS, and OWL". https://search.worldcat.org/title/1193030282

If the preference is for papers, two papers from Deborah McGuinness et al, from early 2000s are still my favorites:

- "Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

- "Ontologies come of age": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

New comment by shervinafshar in "WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages"

shervinafshar — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:26:45 +0000

I knew the Mitchell and Webb duo from _The Peep Show_ and one day (long before the pandemic) I saw a comment on Slashdot about working from home linking to this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk

Then I watched that show and learned about Numberwang.

New comment by shervinafshar in "WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages"

shervinafshar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:20:13 +0000

And here's the history of Numberwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofnDdi-vfw

New comment by shervinafshar in "Ask HN: One month, zero paying customers – keep it or kill it?"

shervinafshar — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:06:07 +0000

I tried your site and here's what I'd do:

- Stop paying for ads immediately.

- Give away full access to other devs to get their opinion

- Dog food. When you run it on its own page, do the results make sense? I did and I believe some don't.

- PDF results are preferred for the devs? Show me a sample.

- What's the most appropriate format for results to feed to my LLM to improve my site? Is the answer PDF?

I'd do some of these and give it another 3 months and then decide.

New comment by shervinafshar in ""The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)"

shervinafshar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:31 +0000

> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?

For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.

New comment by shervinafshar in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

shervinafshar — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:48:39 +0000

Baudrillard shaming McLuhan on Slack. :chef-kiss:

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness

shervinafshar — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://philarchive.org/rec/LERTAF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067313

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shervinafshar in "Show HN: Rejected by YC"

shervinafshar — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:47:04 +0000

Good that folks kept going and it's all documented here. Please fix the typography of this wonderful directory.

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.