Ask HN: What are you reading?

Posted by dan-bailey 1 day ago

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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arch_deluxe 17 hours ago|

A bleak and appalling nuclear triptych:

- Hiroshima

- The Doomsday Machine

- Command and Control

Highly recommended if you’re feeling too happy and full of faith in humanity.

Arubis 17 hours ago|

I could almost see these being darkly encouraging. Yes, everything is awful, but everything was _already_ awful, and most of us are still mostly okay?

TrustPatches 10 hours ago||

Fiction: Between Two Fires

Non-fiction: 21st Century Monetary Policy

eltercero 4 hours ago|

"Between Two Fires" is so good, I think about it a lot. From the same author (although, in a very different vein) I really enjoyed The Blacktongue Thief.

waldothedog 11 hours ago||

Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. Bounced off a few Robert Macfarlane titles —just not for me — and also Anne of Green Gables w my kid

rsyring 13 hours ago||

- Hacker News, mostly comments, and the occasional full article

- Google News and the occasional full article

- Email

- Slack

- ChatGPT/ Codex responses

- Road signs

- Various things in various mobile apps I use

- Websites

- Movie/Show subtitles

Off the top of my head, that accounts for most of the things I read on a weekly basis.

No time for books.

SquirrelOnFire 8 hours ago||

Currently reading

Katabasis by RF Kuang - magicians from Oxford go to hell on purpose

And, meatier

The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

hodgesrm 8 hours ago|

> The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

That sounds really cool! I love Ursula Le Guin but had never heard of this book.

Oscalemor 16 hours ago||

I've got a history of picking up the 2 top books of the airports best sellers. Have been my strategy for a while, right now it's FLESH. Feels like I'm being part of the mainstream, reading something everyone else reading.

euthymiclabs 15 hours ago||

The Score, by C. Thi Nguyen.

It explores why we love metrics in games, but hate them at work.

sirpilade 6 hours ago||

Aeneid, it’s been a while since my school years

paulorlando 16 hours ago||

One of the books I'm reading now is Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, by George Ewart Evans. Set in 1957 Suffolk county, England. I often read in a theme and this theme is about cultural and technological transitions.

sokols 5 hours ago|

A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth

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