4 ms·

HN seems to like Tao Te Ching. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Tao%20Te%20Ching&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia

• dang 9mo ago
  I found these. Others? Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886419 - July 2024 (118 comments) Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058843 - Oct 2023 (99 comments) Tao Te Ching - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37686713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37686713 - Sept 2023 (170 comments) 175 translations of of the Tao Te Ching - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23945605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23945605 - July 2020 (1 comment) Translations of the Dao De Jing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16953938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16953938 - April 2018 (59 comments)
  • culi 9mo ago
    In one of those threads a user, thadk, posted their really cool tool that shows a side by side comparison of English translations for each verse https://thadk.net/sbs/#/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,uklg,jc,rh/section:1 https://thadk.net/sbs/#/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,uklg,jc,rh/... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887305
    • thadk 9mo ago
      Glad it was a helpful remix! Since that post, the original tool author added UKLG's full version to the tool: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh,uklg/section:26 https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh,uklg/sectio...
      • culi 9mo ago
        Ah I missed that tasuki was the original author of the tool. Thanks to both of y'all
      • tasuki 9mo ago
        The original author is a little surprised how little traffic this receives considering how often he sees people linking to it all over the internet :) Around 5k visits a month, including scrapers for LLM training. Somehow I still don't feel this "LLM scrapers have destroyed my website". Seems they don't care about any of my websites. I'm not sure if I should be happy about that, but I feel somewhat slighted - are my websites not good enough to be constantly scraped?
  • golem14 9mo ago
    I would add "The Tao is silent" by Raymond Smullyan to this list. It's not a translation, or even a rendition, but I should guess anyone with a real interest in the Tao will find that book interesting as well.
• Noaidi 9mo ago
  I wish HN would align itself with the Dao instead of just liking the Dao. Up voting and down voting comments is an affront to the Dao.