Hacker News with Generative AI: Non-Fiction

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
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
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 128 days ago | 0 comments
Janet for Mortals (2023) (ianthehenry.com)
I wrote a book.
Books, Writing, Non-Fiction
241 points by magnio 150 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 154 days ago | 57 comments