Hacker News with Generative AI: Books

Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Gen Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books (readtpa.com)
The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist.
Artificial Intelligence, News, Journalism, Books, Summer Reading
3 points by rmason 16 hours ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Engineering Statics and Dynamics book recommendation (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, I'm trying to learn how to analyze static structures for a project I'm building! I'd love a good grounded introduction book for engineering statics and dynamics!
Engineering, Books, Recommendations, Mechanics
8 points by areoform 2 days ago | 2 comments
Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI used to create reading list of nonexistent books (theguardian.com)
Illinois’ prominent Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has confirmed that a summer reading list, which included several recommendations for books that don’t exist, was created using artificial intelligence by a freelancer who worked with one of their content partners.
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Media, Errors, Books
7 points by phony-account 2 days ago | 0 comments
The Last Letter (aeon.co)
On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books.
Literature, France, Books
84 points by HR01 3 days ago | 33 comments
Newspapers Are Recommending AI-Hallucinated Novels (countercraft.substack.com)
Over the weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times—a storied and award-winning newspaper and longtime home of Roger Ebert—published a summer reading list. Almost all the books were fake.
Artificial Intelligence, Media, Books, Journalism
12 points by greenie_beans 3 days ago | 2 comments
Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python (2021) (bayesiancomputationbook.com)
Bayesian Statistics, Python, Machine Learning, Statistics, Books
8 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 0 comments
Reading "Business" Books Is a Waste of Time (antemedian.substack.com)
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.
Business, Books, Opinion
38 points by romanhotsiy 4 days ago | 25 comments
Reflecting on Software Engineering Handbook (yusufaytas.com)
One year. May 2024. Back then, we were riding high, celebrating the launch of this Software Engineering Handbook with an amazing trip to Iceland. Five days of glaciers and waterfalls, finally enjoying the fact that we finished up a two year project. We thought we’d cracked it, pouring our hard won experience into a guide for anyone navigating the software engineering business.
Software Engineering, Books, Retrospective, Project Management
19 points by yusufaytas 5 days ago | 1 comments
Font Activations: A Note on the Type (robhorning.substack.com)
In the colophon of the mass-market, pocket-paperback copy of Georges Lefebvre’s The Coming of the French Revolution that I’ve been reading for no particular reason appears the note on the type pictured above.
Typography, Design, Books
55 points by prismatic 7 days ago | 8 comments
A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023) (austinkleon.substack.com)
It felt like I spent the weekend in another century: Riding my bicycle, chopping wood, and obsessively reading Roget’s Thesaurus.
Language, History, Books, Thesaurus
48 points by NaOH 8 days ago | 13 comments
The Joy Is Not Optional: The Growing Kids God's Way Protocol (aella.substack.com)
I grew up under a strict childrearing program called Growing Kids God’s Way, created by Gary Ezzo. It was popular in the 90’s, and had a series of books that kept getting released with tamer and tamer editions as people kept getting mad about it. My parents had one of the earliest ones.
Parenting, Childrearing, Religion, Books, 90s
7 points by decimalenough 8 days ago | 4 comments
Chapter 2: Serializability Theory (1987 Concurrency Control Book) (blogspot.com)
Chapter 2 of Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems (1987) by Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman is a foundational treatment of serializability theory.
Databases, Concurrency Control, Theory, Computer Science, Books
32 points by matt_d 8 days ago | 0 comments
My hours seem to slip away. How can I manage my time better? (theguardian.com)
Your relationship to time is the “essential ingredient” in how you experience your days, argues Ian Taylor in his new book Time Hacks: The Psychology of Time and How to Spend It.
Time Management, Productivity, Psychology, Books
10 points by creer 9 days ago | 0 comments
Art of Chording (2022) (artofchording.com)
Thanks for checking out Art of Chording. This book's goal is to enable anyone to learn stenography (or steno, for short.)
Stenography, Books, Learning
3 points by Tomte 9 days ago | 0 comments
Ursula K. Le Guin on the TV Earthsea. (2004) (slate.com)
On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don’t know what the film is about.
Science Fiction, Television, Books, Fantasy
8 points by Tomte 13 days ago | 0 comments
Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools (theorthagonist.substack.com)
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.
Business, Books, Marketing, Strategy
593 points by ZeroTalent 14 days ago | 255 comments
Book Review: Practical Julia (lwn.net)
A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia programming language.
Programming, Books, Reviews, Julia
7 points by leephillips 17 days ago | 0 comments
'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon (theguardian.com)
Amazon is selling books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD that claim to offer expert advice yet appear to be authored by a chatbot such as ChatGPT.
Artificial Intelligence, Books, ADHD, Amazon
56 points by n1b0m 19 days ago | 24 comments
2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future (wikipedia.org)
2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future is a 1981 book by Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill. The book is an attempt to predict the social and technological state of humanity 100 years in the future.
Future, Technology, Society, Books
3 points by zeristor 21 days ago | 0 comments
"Silent Spring" remains a rousing call to action (2022) (economist.com)
“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves,” wrote Rachel Carson in “Silent Spring”. This fable opens her landmark environmental book, first published in 1962.
Environment, Books, History, Activism
37 points by simonebrunozzi 21 days ago | 7 comments
Thinking Forth (2011) (sourceforge.net)
Thinking Forth captures the philosophy of the language to show users how to write more readable, better maintainable applications. This project makes the book available in electronic form (LaTeX and PDF).
Programming, Software, Books, Open Source
21 points by Tomte 22 days ago | 1 comments
On Lisp (1993) (paulgraham.com)
With thanks to Alan Apt of Prentice Hall for giving me back the copyright and Chip Coldwell for reproducing it from the original tex files, here finally is a digital version of On Lisp.
Programming, Lisp, History, Books
38 points by ibobev 25 days ago | 5 comments
Review – Fluent C – Principles, Practices, and Patterns (2023) (accu.org)
Considering the number of programmers using C, it is a language poorly served by technical books (on my bookshelves I have more than 10× as many C++ books as C ones). I think that a lot of people consider C an easy language to learn and just learn some basics and start coding.
Programming, C, Books
11 points by teleforce 25 days ago | 0 comments
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (ingebrigtsen.no)
I discovered that they’d published a complete, illustrated version of the Earthsea cycle a couple weeks ago.
Fantasy, Literature, Books, Illustrated Editions
118 points by Tomte 25 days ago | 48 comments
70k Books Found in Hidden German Home Library (2023) (bookstr.com)
An 80-year-old German man lived every book lovers fantasy! Over his lifetime, this recluse collected and stored over 70k books in a hidden library! And did we mention, he didn’t tell anyone about it?
Libraries, Books, Germany, Unusual Finds
10 points by gaws 26 days ago | 2 comments
I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time (samj.substack.com)
In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?
Humor, Censorship, Publishing, Books
395 points by url 27 days ago | 314 comments
Show HN: SnipFast – Extract Highlighted Text from Physical Books (snipfa.st)
Software, Tools, OCR, Text Extraction, Books
10 points by tomsaju 28 days ago | 0 comments
Elements of Clojure (elementsofclojure.com)
This book tries to put words to what most experienced programmers already know. This is necessary because, in the words of Michael Polanyi, "we can know more than we can tell."
Clojure, Programming, Books, Programming Languages
9 points by 8s2ngy 30 days ago | 1 comments
Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (pluralistic.net)
Art, Literature, Books
11 points by Tomte 30 days ago | 1 comments
Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (pluralistic.net)
Books, Art, Culture
14 points by hn_acker 30 days ago | 2 comments