Hacker News with Generative AI: Nonfiction

In praise of the hundred page idea (tracydurnell.com)
I prefer a lightweight nonfiction book to a detailed tome. I’m a dilettante of many interests, so my attention for any given topic is more likely to sustain 100 pages than 600. The sweet spot is longer than a longread internet article, but that doesn’t demand a months-long commitment: a 2-3 hour text.
Nuclear War: A Scenario (wikipedia.org)
Nuclear War: A Scenario is a 2024 nonfiction book by American journalist Annie Jacobsen. It outlines a timeline of a hypothetical first strike against the continental United States by North Korea.
Forget Gladwell (ghost.io)
Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers should too
In Praise of Reference Books (discoursemagazine.com)
Discussions of reading habits typically break down, at least in the first instance, along the binary of fiction and nonfiction.
My War (1982) (harpers.org)
Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading? (ycombinator.com)