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Posted by dan-bailey 1 day 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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arch_deluxe 21 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 21 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?
mpreda 10 hours ago||
Looked over the lists, and there is one that was not mentioned yet:

1. "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny

irenaeus 5 hours ago||
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
vladde 9 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.

0xB0D 18 hours ago||
Gnomon

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

vigneshravichan 12 hours ago||
Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Klepman. It’s my second time and I felt I understand better this time.
onel 8 hours ago||
Breakneck, China's quest to engineer the future. Dan Wang
Oscalemor 20 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.
rsyring 17 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.

joshrw 7 hours ago|
200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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