Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by wpietri on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:14PM (#21773811)

I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection.

And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sends them out in the morning to fly around the whole world, and by breakfast they are back again. Thus, he finds out many new things and this is why he is called ‘raven-god’ (hrafnaguð)." [1]

[1] https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-...

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by fullwaza on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:54PM (#21775653)

Norse Mythology by Neil Giaman is very good if you like such things. The audio book is especially good as it is narrated by the author.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Norse-Mythology-Audiobook/B01LWUJ...

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by monkeywork on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:23PM (#21778310)

Can confirm just finished it on a 8 hr road trip last week. Very entertaining, found myself laughing out loud in the car at several points

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by rbradford on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:28PM (#21775362)

There is a lovely two player board game called Odin's Ravens in which players acting as Muninn and Huginn race against each other by playing landscape cards. [1]

I wasn't aware of the full details of the lore so thank you for bringing that up!

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192074/odins-ravens-seco...

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by aasasd on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:02PM (#21775066)

Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by outworlder on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:58PM (#21776385)

I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by mr_woozy on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:08AM (#21782776)

Eve Online is produced here in Iceland and much of the language and norse mythology is worked into the game. Eve online uses ISK, we use ISK here.

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by PatrolX on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:45PM (#21779004)

Haha, I was wondering when someone would bring up EVE.

Huginn is a fun ship to fly.

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by codeduck on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:04AM (#21780416)

Sleipnir forever!

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by tectonic on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:52PM (#21774282)

Thanks, I'm glad someone appreciated it! :)

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by tripzilch on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:26AM (#21780960)

... except that the first thing I thought was, did the open source panorama stitching project got ... different?

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

I thought what a weird coincidence that they'd choose this very similar weird word ... but now that you point out it's the name of one of Odin's ravens, I guess it's not quite as uncommon of a word.

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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by aliakhtar on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:11AM (#21803524)

I get it about naming struggles. I built something to solve this, https://naminator.io

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