Hacker News with Generative AI: Biographies

Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021) (time.com)
Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel is famous for destroying media outlets, not paying taxes, and being a conservative tech billionaire. A new biography, The Contrarian, suggests that he is after more than riches. TIME chatted with its author, journalist Max Chafkin.
Biographies, Business, Politics, Silicon Valley
143 points by zfg 29 days ago | 216 comments
Elon Musk Biographer: No Evidence Billionaire Has Any Intellectual Achievements (thewrap.com)
Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
Elon Musk, Biographies, Criticism, Intellectual Property
51 points by axiologist 39 days ago | 29 comments
Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things (ycombinator.com)
Seeking recommendations for books about how hard things got done.
Self-Improvement, Biographies, Success Stories, Motivation
495 points by zachlatta 86 days ago | 437 comments
Ken Leishman (wikipedia.org)
Biographies, People, Wikipedia
19 points by luu 244 days ago | 0 comments
George Stephenson (wikipedia.org)
Biographies, History, Transportation
28 points by keepamovin 340 days ago | 5 comments