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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laweijfmvo 16 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.

vladde 8 hours ago||

reading the second edition of "Clean Code", it's been a while since i read the first edition.

will be giving my trainee this book too, and hoping we can discuss parts of the book we agree and don't agree with.

mcv 19 hours ago||

I've taken a hiatus in my journey through Iain M. Banks' Culture novels to reread 1984.

jtgi 15 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

focusedone 20 hours ago||

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. My first time though this one and it's...well...a trip.

onel 7 hours ago||

Breakneck, China's quest to engineer the future. Dan Wang

arch_deluxe 20 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 20 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?

vigneshravichan 11 hours ago||

Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Klepman. It’s my second time and I felt I understand better this time.

joshrw 6 hours ago||

200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

0xB0D 17 hours ago|

Gnomon

Just finished "there is no antimemetics division" an absolutely astounding read

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