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Manu Sporny
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Manu Sporny's personal blog at manu.sporny.org covers web, programming and writing. Since 2011, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite manu.sporny.org for posts on the semantic web, RDF and JSON-LD, and on web standards history. Other links are to a Persona retrospective and a public-domain genome anecdote.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-01-22
- The False Choice of Schema.org3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-03
- Man places his genome in public domain, on Github2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-12
- DRM in HTML52 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-30
- The Web Browser API Incubation Anti-Pattern2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Manu said [1] he was the first to do so, but looks like maybe you beat him. [1] http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/
Comment linking /2011/public-domain-genome/
on “Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request”Submitted Man places his genome in public domain, on Github as a story · 125 points
HN discussion- nl · 2020-03-06
The author completely falls short to describe the evolution of the SemWeb over the past 10 years. Tons of specs, several declarative languages and technologies have been grown to not just get beyond the verbosity of a serialization format such as XML, but also move away from the classic relational data model. Turtle, JSON-LD, SPARQL, Neo4J, Linked Data Fragments,... come to mind. And then there are the emerging appl…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “The History of the URL” Submitted JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web as a story · 106 points
HN discussion- nl · 2020-03-06
>> They didn’t attempt to answer that question in any satisfying manner. Instead they focused on how and when we can use 303 redirects to point users from links which aren’t documents to ones which are, and when we can use URL fragments (the bit after the ‘#’) to point users to linked data. > Err. They did. > That's what the Resource Description Framework is all about. It gives you a few foundational building blocks…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “The History of the URL” Submitted JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web (2014) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionPersona had some issues… http://manu.sporny.org/2015/credentials-retrospective/#perso...
Comment linking /2015/credentials-retrospective/
on “Payment Request API”Submitted The Downward Spiral of Microdata as a story · 30 points
HN discussionAshton Tate made a tree editor called [Framework]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate#Framework ) which I used to write my thesis in the late 80s on a DOS machine. I loved it. It had intuitive keystrokes, using the numeric keypad to zoom in (+) and out (-) of the tree with an easy way to collapse the tree branches (enter). Each frame held other frames, or could hold text, a spreadsheet or a database. It wasn’t…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?”Submitted The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThe semantic web is now integrated into the web and for the most part it's invisible. Take a look at the timeline given in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3983179 Some of those startups exited for hundreds of millions, providing, for example, the metadata in the right hand pane of Google search. The new action buttons in Gmail, adopted by Github, are based on JSON-LD: https://github.com/blog/1891-vie…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing?”Submitted JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web as a story · 25 points
HN discussionMost technologies that were specific to the "Semantic Web", such as OWL and SPARQL, failed to scale and failed to solve realistic problems, and therefore died. (I always maintained that running a SPARQL endpoint amounted to running a DDoS on yourself.) However, we got something kind of cool out of the RDF model that underlies it, especially when some sufficiently opinionated developers identified the bad parts of RD…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?”Submitted DRM in HTML5 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRDF was not designed for arbitrary graphs. It was specifically designed for resource descriptions on the Semantic Web. > reliance on the web infrastructure (IRI, DNS, web servers, ...) This is the whole point of RDF. It is what enables Linked Data. > I read the history of JSON-LD by one of its main author [1], and it does not originated in the RDF community. Not sure what you mean exactly, but here’s from http://man…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins/
on “Publishing JSON-LD for Developers”Submitted The False Choice of Schema.org as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm working on language ressources and graphs and in my opinion, RDF is so flawed you shouldn't even bother with it. I will address the topic during a conference in June (email me -- info in my profile -- for follow up or to get my articles if you're interested by the topic). JSON-LD is trying to make RDF sexier (more exactly said, RDF try to pimp itself by using JSON-LD) but as it is just RDF with a new serializati…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “Publishing JSON-LD for Developers”Submitted JSON-LD Is The Bees Knees as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFirst off, this is a community group "specification," which is to say, it's part of a W3C process that's supposed to be easier for lay community members to be involved--and easier for people who have no clue about implementation issues to hijack the process [1]. So I decided to do some digging to see how involved actual browser vendors were in the process... The backstory seems to involve a very, very acrimonious co…
Comment linking /2016/browser-api-incubation-antipattern/
on “Web Credits Spec”Submitted An Uber-comparison of RDFa, Microdata and Microformats as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor anyone interested in the alternative, check out RDFa[0]. They seem to be functionally equivalent and are supported by all major search providers. [1] (if down, see web archive version [2]) [0]: http://rdfa.info/ [1]: http://manu.sporny.org/2012/mythical-differences/ [2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140719161748/http://manu.sporny...
Comment linking /2012/mythical-differences/
on “The Downward Spiral of Microdata”Submitted The Web Browser API Incubation Anti-Pattern as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt also comes from the exact same line of development at W3C[1]. LD, or “linked data”, is W3C’s attempt at rebranding the “semantic web” (and, despite my general dislike for rebranding attempts, seems more descriptive). This is the first time I see LD expanded as “link ing data” , though. [1] Manu Sporny [JSON-LD 1.0 editor and CG chair], “JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web” (2014), http://manu.sporny.org/2014/…
Comment linking /2014/json-ld-origins-2/
on “JSON for Linking Data”Submitted DRM in HTML5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI shall copy and paste for your enlightenment #schemaorg spits in the eyes of every person and company that worked on open vocabularies like vCard, iCalendar, etc #schemaorg much worse than just a Google+MS duopoly reinvention of open vocabularies, they're actually forking #HTML5. #schemaorg #HTML5 fork smoke: http://schema.org/EventVenue openingHours extends <time> datetime with durations. #schemaorg problem not ab…
Comment linking /2011/false-choice/
on “Rejecting schema.org”Submitted Credentials: A Retrospective of Mild Successes and Dramatic Failures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RDFa 1.1 Lite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Schema.org vs RDFa as a story · 1 points
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