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Posted by dan-bailey 19 hours ago

Ask HN: What are you reading?

I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...
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hhhAndrew 3 hours ago|
Gene Wolfe, Peace

I will admit, I needed the spoiler afterwards to untangle it.

lp92 17 hours ago||
Currently reading "Beyond Tube-and-Wing: The X-48 Blended Wing-Body and NASA's Quest to Reshape Future Transport Aircraft".

Its a pretty good history of the X-48 program.

Edit: also reading the "The Anduril Thesis" in parallel.

jadijadi 8 hours ago||
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (by Kim Zetter).

An indepth history of Stuxnet. A bit long but recommended. You can not find any other book which goes this much in describing a mallware (no code).

jtip 8 hours ago||
"Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great" by Eric Ries

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (How to Think About Artificial Intelligence-Before It's Too Late) By Cory Doctorow

robertkoss 12 hours ago||
Just finished:

- Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov

- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

- The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han

Currently I am reading an Austrian economics classic - Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt

lanfeust6 6 hours ago|
Chekhov is great
Zizizizz 3 hours ago||
Just finished the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I loved it!
jtgi 7 hours ago||
Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp (Graphic Novel) - what if time was buggy?

Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey by David McCumber (1996) - hustling in the golden era of pool in the usa

GaryBluto 11 hours ago||
I've mostly been reading short SF stories recently, most of them from Dangerous Visions.

Here's a few of the ones I've read and enjoyed:

“The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven

“The Night That All Time Broke Out” by Brian W. Aldiss

“A Toy for Juliette” by Robert Bloch (although I was surprisingly not a fan of Harlan's continuation)

“The Man Who Went to the Moon — Twice” by Howard Rodman

“Flies” by Robert Silverberg

DazWilkin 11 hours ago||
On the recommendation of a friend, the spiral wars series (https://spiral-wars-shepherd.fandom.com/wiki/Spiral_history).

It started slow (booting) but I'm enjoying the books (currently on #3), the universe-building and the length (10 books) of it.

laweijfmvo 8 hours ago|
An Immense World. It’s not as jaw-dropping as I’d expected (yes, I know rattlesnakes can “see” heat), but it’s also not an easy/fun read either. So I’ll probably land at around 3/5 rating.
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