Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard

This is the definition of a nerd snipe for me.

I’ve been binging a Korean YouTuber called Hyangachi(향아치)who goes into Joseon dynasty history in a very approachable way for younger generation and I’ve been researching observability dashboard for my side projects. I didn’t even think about combining the two.

Joseon dynasty was obsessed with preserving history. Not even the king could interfere with it. In fact, a king fell from his horse during a hunt, then told them to not write it down. But we know this happened because they wrote down the order :D

The historians also have known about the importance of resiliency and made back up copies too!

If you have a dashboard that you trust and it notifies you that you have the mandate of heaven, what do you do? Buy a lottery ticket? Make an indecent proposal to someone out of your league? Drive without a seatbelt? Is this actionable intelligence? Do I still have to floss?

The data comes from the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. https://sillok.history.go.kr/intro/english.do I'm browsing it. Wow, there's so much detail, like:

己酉二月, 世宗講武于平康, 世祖射鹿, 七發皆貫其項。

기유년 2월에 세종이 평강(平康)에서 강무(講武)를 하였는데, 세조가 사슴을 쏜 7발(發)이 모두 그 목을 관통하였다.

"In the second lunar month of the giyu year, King Sejong held a military drill (gangmu) at Pyeonggang. Sejo shot seven arrows at a deer, and all of them pierced its neck." https://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kga_000002

Many K-drama and movies are inspired by these records.

You can also download the original text of the Annals using South Korea's Public Data Portal (https://www.data.go.kr/data/15053647/fileData.do). I'm not sure if foreigners can access it, though

This feels like something that would have done numbers on StumbleUpon

This is fascinating. Perhaps what trips me up is the mention of UFOs in the Joseon Archives.

https://youngit.blogspot.com/2012/08/ufo-recorded-in-annals-...

Spectacular use of free will.

Treating historical records like system logs is a framing I hadn't considered. interesting

Great, now we need this with current data for modern governments