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Ask HN: What are you reading?

by selmat on 2/3/19, 11:05 PM with 30 comments

What book would you recommend to read next?

  • by kazinator on 2/4/19, 7:51 AM

    I'm reading a book called "じょうぶな子どもをつくる基本食": Joubuna Kodomo-o Tsukuru Kihonshoku. ("Base Diet for making Strong/Healthy Kids").

    It's a book about child nutrition that disparages all foreign influences in Japanese eating and encourages everything traditional. Steamed rice, miso soup, tsukemono and so on. Plus various parenting advice around food as well as not.

    Non-traditional foods influenced by foreign cultures, in particular Europe and America, are blamed for all sorts of ills and ailments of the skin, bowel and whatnot, not to mention cancer.

    Quite entertaining.

    https://www.amazon.co.JP/じょうぶな子どもをつくる基本食-幕内-秀夫/dp/4072292281

  • by quietthrow on 2/4/19, 6:16 AM

    1) Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl 2) Can’t hurt me - David Goggins 3) Meditations -Marcus Aurelius

    #LifeChanging

  • by gashaw on 2/4/19, 9:52 PM

    Programming on Purpose - best book I read on software design so far.

    Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - explaing human behavior from many points of view, well written and mind blowing.

  • by tmaly on 2/4/19, 7:57 PM

    I am currently reading How to Read a Book. I would recommend it as it covers how to read different kinds of text and analytical reading.

    Its a practical book

  • by WMCRUN on 2/3/19, 11:25 PM

    Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom

    The most cogent survey of the existential risk posed by superintelligent AGI that I’ve come across.

  • by leahcim on 2/5/19, 11:00 PM

  • by jriot on 2/4/19, 9:00 PM

    City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 -> Great insight into the history of New Orleans, and how the diverse culture from its beginning has shaped the city we love today.

    and

    A Confederacy of Dunces -> Hilarious yet well-written book.

  • by rmason on 2/3/19, 11:39 PM

    The messy middle by Scott Belsky

    The founder of Behance covers the journey towards product market fit. It's where most startup's fail and yet very little has been written about that part of the software entrepreneurs journey.

  • by FilthyAnalyst on 2/4/19, 12:59 AM

    Seveneves. By Neal Stevenson. Lots of great ideas. A bit slow at times.

  • by petecox on 2/4/19, 12:53 AM

    I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957).

    A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.

  • by croo on 2/4/19, 4:42 PM

    Why we sleep

    Great readable book with lots of experiments, results and conclusions. It also made me stop drinking coffee after ~2 pm

  • by MattLeBlanc001 on 2/4/19, 7:01 PM

    Lean Startup.

    This is an eye opener for me as a SaaS newbie. A must read for anyone trying to build a startup.

  • by drakonka on 2/4/19, 7:32 AM

    Right now I'm reading Essentials of Discrete Mathematics and going through the exercises.

  • by karolist on 2/5/19, 2:22 PM

    The Go Programming Language

  • by ozychhi on 2/5/19, 11:18 AM

    Skin in the Game by Taleb

  • by darnkavi on 2/4/19, 4:08 PM

    13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

  • by paulorlando on 2/4/19, 12:46 AM

    The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandlebrot

  • by pknerd on 2/5/19, 1:31 PM

    - Thinking Fast and Slow - Dollar Trap.

  • by notomorrow on 2/4/19, 1:22 PM

    Permutation city

  • by zgniatacz on 2/4/19, 3:02 AM

    Egypt Before The Pharaohs - Michael A Hoffman

  • by TearsOfTheRiver on 2/5/19, 6:35 AM

    Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • by Memosyne on 2/4/19, 12:50 AM

    The Transparent Society by David Brin.

  • by preordained on 2/3/19, 11:58 PM

    Dune