Hacker News with Generative AI: Fiction

Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] (jsomers.net)
The keeper of a university’s lab animals stumbles onto an extraordinary secret.

Fiction, Science Fiction, Animal Welfare, University Research

71 points by jsomers 9 days ago | 17 comments

Shadow Ticket (penguinrandomhouse.com)
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind.

Fiction, Books, Crime, History, 1930s

11 points by CaesarA 14 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: What books have been worth your time? (ycombinator.com)
Curious to know which books you've read that genuinely felt worth the time and attention you gave them. Can be fiction, non-fiction, self-help, technical, philosophical, or anything else.

Books, Recommendations, Reading, Fiction, Non-Fiction

36 points by jimsojim 19 days ago | 57 comments

The Colors of Her Coat (astralcodexten.com)

Fiction, Literature, Personal Essays

52 points by feross 25 days ago | 49 comments

"Station" by Mitsuo Isaka (1994) (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Fiction, Japanese Literature, Novels

13 points by tosh 27 days ago | 3 comments

Apparent signs of distress during LLM redteaming (lesswrong.com)
There’s this popular trope in fiction about a character being mind controlled without losing awareness of what’s happening. Think Jessica Jones, The Manchurian Candidate or Bioshock. The villain uses some magical technology to take control of your brain - but only the part of your brain that’s responsible for motor control. You remain conscious and experience everything with full clarity.

Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Security

36 points by cubefox 33 days ago | 37 comments

"Have Quotes About Salieri" (contingentmagazine.org)
Besides joking with friends that “HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI” would be a good title for my current project, Weiss’s note to himself demonstrates the balance of fact, claim, and outright fiction in the project of writing historical crime fiction.

Writing, History, Fiction, Crime

46 points by tintinnabula 43 days ago | 12 comments

Sigint in Fiction (blogspot.com)
I had an articled published last month in the John Buchan Journal (unsurprisingly, the journal of the John Buchan Society). It is about the way that John Buchan drew on his First World War experience as a customer of Sigint to use cryptanalysis in one of his books and in a short story to advance the narrative, and to develop characters.

Fiction, Literature, Cryptography, History

51 points by _tk_ 48 days ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS? (ycombinator.com)
This should be interpreted in the broadest sense to include books like both American Kingpin and Practical Vim as examples.

Computer Science, Books, Recommendations, Fiction, Non-Fiction

40 points by Eavolution 67 days ago | 29 comments

There is No Antimemetics Division (wikidot.com)

Fiction, Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture

38 points by 0x62 78 days ago | 3 comments

The King in Yellow (wikipedia.org)
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.

Horror, Literature, Fiction, Short Stories

79 points by keiferski 80 days ago | 62 comments

How Translation Works, Book Title Edition (scalzi.com)
As any translator will tell you, translating a piece of fiction isn’t about simply transcribing words one-to-one from one language to another. It’s about capturing a vibe — making sure the tone and intent of the piece come through in words when a mere transliteration would fail.

Translation, Fiction, Language, Writing, Literature

61 points by janpio 81 days ago | 21 comments

Plausible Fiction – David Spivak (topos.institute)
Each of us can see problems in the world, cases where something we care about is in need of attention. On the global scale, I am deeply concerned about rampant pollution, countries engaged in hostile acts of aggression, political corruption, cultural fragmentation, the effects of modern technology on human lives and livelihoods, and more.

Fiction, Politics, Technology

7 points by samuel2 95 days ago | 0 comments

"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

Creative Projects, Fiction, Technology, Audio

12 points by barry-cotter 97 days ago | 2 comments

Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf] (crisesnotes.com)

Fiction, Books, Literature

285 points by Jimmc414 109 days ago | 207 comments

Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support (persuasion.community)
Literary fiction is dead. Or, so we’ve been told. Perhaps we can agree it lies bleeding.

Publishing, Literature, Fiction, Trends

19 points by dredmorbius 118 days ago | 1 comments

Magical Thinking: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (2011) (laphamsquarterly.org)
Fiction rarely influences politics anymore, either because fewer people read it or because it has fewer things to say. Yet novels have affected America in large and unsubtle ways: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle shaped the contours of the national current no less profoundly than our periodic wars and bank panics.

Fiction, Politics, History, Literature

17 points by mitchbob 125 days ago | 6 comments

The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later (programaudioseries.com)
The world survived for another year, and The Program audio series with it.

Podcasts, Fiction, New Releases

30 points by I-M-S 136 days ago | 10 comments

Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming (theguardian.com)
Anyone who has been in a bookshop in the last few years will have noticed that Japanese fiction is experiencing an extraordinary boom.

Japanese Literature, Fiction, Culture, Trends

77 points by cyberlimerence 154 days ago | 117 comments

Neal Stephenson's New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy (nytimes.com)
“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Revolution, 20th Century

13 points by ctoth 192 days ago | 1 comments

There is no antimimetics division V2 (qntm.org)
In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.

Publishing, Fiction, Books

21 points by andrewla 218 days ago | 9 comments

Modelling Time Travel in Fiction (qntm.org)

Time Travel, Fiction, Storytelling

8 points by not_a_boat 238 days ago | 1 comments

Glass Beads (outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Fiction, Substack, Writing

18 points by honoredb 241 days ago | 2 comments

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (mssv.net)

Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Humor

10 points by adrianhon 284 days ago | 2 comments

A Deal with the Devil (lithub.com)