Hacker News with Generative AI: Nonfiction

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.
Nuclear War, Nonfiction, Politics, United States, North Korea
7 points by rossant 29 days ago | 1 comments
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
Society, Nonfiction, Writing, Criticism, Malcolm Gladwell
20 points by _tk_ 30 days ago | 5 comments
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.
Reading Habits, Nonfiction, Reference Books
14 points by keiferski 75 days ago | 1 comments
My War (1982) (harpers.org)
War, History, Literature, Nonfiction
99 points by Michelangelo11 164 days ago | 59 comments
Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading? (ycombinator.com)
Nonfiction, Books, Recommendations
208 points by mucle6 199 days ago | 179 comments