Hacker News with Generative AI: Book Reviews

Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" (clereviewofbooks.com)
I texted a friend about an upcoming collection of Amazon reviews by the writer Kevin Killian. He texted back that he thinks a lot about all the great writing that has disappeared over the years—from early Usenet, billboards, MySpace, and weblogs—into the ether.

Literature, Book Reviews, Online Culture

16 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 3 comments

Yeah, America can still build stuff (jabberwocking.com)
Marc Dunkelman has a new book coming out next month called Why Nothing Works. His thesis is that America once did big things but now seems stuck—and much of it is the fault of progressives:

Politics, USA, Social Commentary, Book Reviews

28 points by leotravis10 11 days ago | 25 comments

Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design" (16elt.com)
Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them. This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout and shared all of the 21 chapter summaries in the channel.

Software Design, Book Reviews, Technology

235 points by fagnerbrack 30 days ago | 135 comments

Book Review: On the Edge, Nate Silver (mattglassman.substack.com)

Book Reviews, Data Analysis, Statistics

8 points by layer8 156 days ago | 1 comments

Hilary Mantel Reviews “A Life of One's Own/An Experiment in Leisure” (1986) (literaryreview.co.uk)

Book Reviews, Literature, Biography

70 points by gradschoolfail 157 days ago | 46 comments

Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review) (usenix.org)

Legacy Systems, Software Development, Book Reviews

15 points by fanf2 163 days ago | 0 comments

'Written in Water' Review: What Makes a Classic? (wsj.com)