Ask HN: What have you recently been enamoured by?

[camnora]

Are there any books, ideas, frameworks/technologies, etc. that you feel have a great impact and are worth sharing?

[mindcrime]

Abductive Inference, and more specifically "Parsimonious Covering Theory" (PCT)[1] which is one approach to automating abduction. It's a not a new idea by any means, but I think there's still some meat on that bone (so to speak). I've been working on re-implementing PCT using in a more modern environment, with an eye towards exploring ways to extend the idea and/or integrate it with some more recent approaches.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2244953/

[jseliger]

Kingdom of the Wicked, a novel set in a world in which the ancient Romans experience an Industrial Revolution and have approximately contemporary levels of technology when Jesus shows up: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/12/28/kingdom-of-the-wicked-boo... . It sounded gimmicky to me but is shockingly well done.

[jozzas]

Directed Acyclic Graphs / block lattices in Cryptocurrency, like those used in IOTA and RaiBlocks: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...