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Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by torben-friis »

No 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.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by omoikane »

I see that there is "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury (33 mentions), and "The Martian" by Andy Weir listed much later (11 mentions), but most of mentions for "The Martian Chronicles" appears to be referencing "The Martian" instead.

Also, "Gödel, Escher, Bach" (20 mentions) and "GEB" (7 mentions) are listed as separate books, but they are the same book.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by furyofantares »

You should scrape 2024 also and then 2025 should be sorted by the delta. Otherwise it doesn't have that much to do with 2025 and is largely just books commonly mentioned on HN.

It's possible this idea isn't straightforward due to more or fewer total mentions but I think you could get there.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by dozerly »

mohamez wrote: post #8
Insanity wrote: post #5

The 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'm really trying so hard to understand how did you come up with this correlation.

The US has shifted to becoming an authoritarian fascist state. It’s not surprising that people reference another prominent authoritarian fascist manifesto.
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