I tried to get into neuromancer but I’m not a fan of the nonstop dialogue. Just a personal reference but it feels more and more rare to get new science fiction books primarily driven by the narrator.
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#92Hitchhikers guide to the universe having 42 mentions is a cosmic level coincidence
It has wrong author.
The author and book cover it is showing is for a comic book adaptation by John Carnell.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41725880
Instead of showing the author and book cover for the original text book by Douglas Adams.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guid...
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#93I once commented on HN how my favorite Sci Fi novel is Accelerando and the author, Charles Stross, replied to it suggesting I try his The Rapture of the Nerds he co-wrote with Cory Doctorow; I loved it when I read it too. I love HN - it's basically the only website I visit these days (aside checking mail, watching YouTube, and gardening my GitHub repositories).
Accelerando is one of my favourite too! Thanks for sharing the reply, always love book recommendations
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#94No offense intended towards anyone, but it usually strikes me how basic/surface level literature references are here. For a crowd pretty much defined by intellectual curiosity, it's mostly highschool reads, very mainstream scifi/fantasy and corporate self help. I wonder if it's an american thing, for engineers to be detached of liberal arts? The vibe tends to be quite different in local engineering groups.
The context of these book titles appearing in comments might skew the results. Ulysses is high up on the list, but the source comments have a lot of people using it as an example of a lengthy, difficult book.
I read a lot, but if I'm going to use a book to make a point or example in a comment, which will be read by someone I don't know, I'll reference a well-known book that most people have heard of, even if it was just from 9th grade English class, instead of something more obscure.
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#96I tend to avoid sci-fi that hits too close to home (don't love any of the AI/internet/crypto classics, same reason I can't bear to watch Silicon Valley), so I was a little bored by the top of the the list.
But, there's really good stuff that I've loved just a bit down the list: Foundation, The Left Hand Of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Stories of Your Life and Others, Exhalation, Children Of Time, Dune.
Was surprised the Mars trilogy was pretty low (might be the keyword indexing?) - highly recommend, as long as you don't get too bored by descriptions of rock.
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#97The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.
I think 1984 is more of a sign of the times, and not just mentioned in the context of banned book threads
There are no banned books in America. Not spending taxpayer money forcibly taken from citizens on books they disagree with for public school libraries is far from banning books.
If you are okay with a book indoctrinating kids with far left ideology, why not put in copies of far right books to balance it out?
No one wants kids indoctrinated in culture war garbage.
If you want to own a book, go buy it yourself.
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#98Hitchhikers guide to the universe having 42 mentions is a cosmic level coincidence
It has wrong author. The author and book cover it is showing is for a comic book adaptation by John Carnell. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41725880 Instead of showing the author and book cover for the original text book by Douglas Adams. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guid...
Thanks for the heads up. Corrected it.
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#99Neat. I'm seeing a lot of overlap with books mentioned on r/reddit. I didn't realize, until know, how demographically similar hacker news and reddit are.
HN used to be a site for entrepreneurs to share ideas and work on things. Now the far left Reddit crowd has crashed it and anyone who has a successful business is just "lucky" and anyone who has earned wealth should have it stolen at gunpoint by the government to redistribute to those who don't produce anything.
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#100Some more errors: Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at Norwich, A.D. 1373 wasn't really mentioned ever. Those mentions are of the book of Revelations in the Bible. Beowulf mentions are all referencing the Old English epic poem, not a specific modern version by Seamus Heaney.
> Beowulf mentions are all referencing the Old English epic poem Knowing the HN crowd, it can also be a reference to beowulf clusters as well.
This isn't slashdot :)