Hacker News: shervinafshar

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.

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.