41 stories tagged books, newest first.
85 points by surprisetalk | 20 comments
Blog post by lcamtuf announcing his electronics book The Secret Life of Circuits is now available on Amazon and other retailers, with a plea for reader reviews.
41 points by plunge | 56 comments
A Marshall Project Q&A about a new book arguing that routing 911 calls to police by default endangers people in mental health crises.
96 points by PaulHoule | 67 comments
Jacobin article arguing that publishers abandoned the mass-market paperback and then blamed readers for declining reading.
136 points by rafael859 | 39 comments
Web edition of Chapter 1 of John Berger's 1972 book "Ways of Seeing," an essay on how we perceive images and art.
139 points by miletus | 51 comments
Read Rare is a site collecting rare tech documents and books, such as historic memos, letters, and offerings, shown as a shelf and free to read or borrow.
142 points by sonabinu | 29 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Canadian poet Anne Carson, author of Autobiography of Red, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
382 points by dan-bailey | 738 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread where users share what books they are currently reading, from sci-fi to nonfiction on bureaucracy and comics.
54 points by joebig | 7 comments
Blog post by author Cath Senker summarizing her book about ships stranded in the Suez Canal after the 1967 Six-Day War.
338 points by surprisetalk | 153 comments
A personal blog post on The Universe of Discourse describing the seven books the author keeps on the shelf by his elbow and why he loves them.
366 points by harscoat | 399 comments
A blog post by author Hugh Howey titled "The End of an Era," featuring a banner for the Silo TV series adaptation of his books.
505 points by silcoon | 266 comments
A personal blog post by Elia Scotto explaining how he went from reading under ten books a year to about one a week, with tips for becoming a prolific reader.
352 points by yu3zhou4 | 94 comments
A personal website offering a curated collection of public-domain books under a cypherpunk theme, with links to Anna's Archive and LibGen.
401 points by throw0101a | 169 comments
Obituary for Dan Simmons, American science fiction and horror author of the Hyperion Cantos, who died February 21, 2026; screenshot shows his Wikipedia page.
459 points by pmaze | 137 comments
A site showing thematic "trails" of linked excerpts across 100 non-fiction books, automatically discovered by Claude Code.
550 points by seinvak | 193 comments
A web app listing books mentioned in Hacker News comments during 2025, ranked by mention count with the related comments shown alongside.
544 points by costco | 223 comments
Book.sv, a web app that recommends books to read next using a model trained on billions of scraped Goodreads reviews, plus a tool to find users who read given books.
412 points by surprisetalk | 120 comments
Website for Abby Covert's book "How to Make Sense of Any Mess," an introduction to information architecture for making sense of complex problems.
500 points by nataliste | 298 comments
University of Chicago Press excerpt from Milton Mayer's 1955 book They Thought They Were Free, on how ordinary Germans gradually accepted Nazi rule.
354 points by nils-m-holm | 98 comments
Book page for Nils M Holm's "Lisp from Nothing", covering minimal self-interpreting Lisp implementations from a metacircular evaluator to a compiler emitting C.
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
342 points by teleforce | 87 comments
Book page for Simon Monk's 'Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Seventh Edition' with links to code and purchase options.
405 points by asicsp | 96 comments
Preface of the free online book Architecture Patterns with Python (Cosmic Python), covering DDD, event-driven architecture and related patterns in Python.
341 points by AntiRush | 185 comments
SFGATE article about a former Facebook director's book portraying Mark Zuckerberg harshly; the page loaded only a bot-check captcha.
480 points by thunderbong | 327 comments
University of Chicago Press excerpt from Milton Mayer's book They Thought They Were Free, on how ordinary Germans gradually accepted Nazi rule, 1933-45.
439 points by jxmorris12 | 34 comments
Online book by Nathan Lambert giving a short introduction to reinforcement learning from human feedback and post-training for language models.
458 points by phiresky | 85 comments
Blog post describing a visualization of over 100 million books mapped by ISBN, made in response to an Anna's Archive challenge.
370 points by RyanShook | 125 comments
Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.
374 points by simplegeek | 149 comments
A Substack post by Waqas Younas listing and discussing the books he most enjoyed reading in 2024.
407 points by pieterr | 160 comments
A 2010 blog post by Simon Dobson arguing that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is the most seminal computer science book and worth rereading.
485 points by bwidlar | 305 comments
Blog post by Jens Gustedt announcing the C23 edition of his book Modern C, available as a free download from HAL Inria.
555 points by goostavos | 152 comments
Show HN discussion thread where the author announces his Manning early-access book "Data-Oriented Programming in Java" and describes its approach.
531 points by metadat | 164 comments
Homepage of Crafting Interpreters, Robert Nystrom's book on implementing a full-featured scripting language with a tree-walk interpreter and bytecode VM.
395 points by speckx | 230 comments
A Reactor magazine column by Molly Templeton arguing it should be normal to love books you don't entirely understand.
399 points by jarmitage | 148 comments
MIT Press book page for "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" by Chaim Gingold, with a foreword by Janet H. Murray.
326 points by drcwpl | 238 comments
A Medium essay by Mark Johnson explaining why Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in his life.
351 points by DeathArrow | 123 comments
Free online reduced edition of Richard Fabian's book Data-Oriented Design, showing the table of contents and an introductory note.
378 points by TotalCrackpot | 314 comments
The Anarchist Library's full-text edition of David Graeber's 2018 book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory," with download options in several formats.
726 points by mhh__ | 245 comments
Full online edition of J. D. A. Wiseman's book Pricing Money, a beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps, with a 2019 preface.
353 points by FL33TW00D | 186 comments
Online book "Effective Rust: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code" by David Drysdale, presented as an mdBook site.
598 points by tim_sw | 86 comments
Blog post by James Smith announcing completion of the "Build Your Own Database" book, explaining why learning database internals from scratch matters.
343 points by zzxcvb | 153 comments
Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.