Hacker News with Generative AI: Non-Fiction

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 44 days ago | 29 comments
Why Books Donʼt Work (andymatuschak.org)
Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one implied assumption at the foundation: people absorb knowledge by reading sentences. This last idea so invisibly defines the medium that it’s hard not to take for granted, which is a shame because, as we’ll see, it’s quite mistaken.
Reading, Non-Fiction, Books, Knowledge Acquisition, Learning
3 points by _kb 105 days ago | 0 comments
Janet for Mortals (2023) (ianthehenry.com)
I wrote a book.
Books, Writing, Non-Fiction
241 points by magnio 127 days ago | 66 comments
Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024? (ycombinator.com)
Tyler Cowen just published his best non-fiction books of 2024 list on Marginal Revolution: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/11/best-non-fiction-of-2024.html
Non-Fiction, Books, Recommendations, 2024
63 points by vintageclothldn 131 days ago | 57 comments