https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.06692/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515858urn:hackerpapers:mention:2008.06692:46515858Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:54:27 GMT<p>The more recent Lifschitz book is the easiest to learn from IMO: - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vl/teaching/378/ASP.pdf It starts with basics of using ASP and gives examples in clingo, not math. The Potassco book is more comprehensive and will help you understand better what is going on: - https://potassco.org/book/ Things I don&#x27;t like include that it&#x27;s more dense, doesn&#x27;t use clingo examples (mostly math-style examples so you kind of have to translate them in your head), and while the proofs of how grounding works are interesting, the explanations are kind of short and don&#x27;t always have the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.06692/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI