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💡 Book Insight — The Man With the President's Mind

🔎 What HN is reading this week

📚 Hacker News Books – Week 51 (2025) — 11 books

💡 Book Insight — The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

🔎 What HN is reading this week

🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 50 (2025) — 18 books ⬇️

💡 Book Insight — Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

🔎 What HN is reading this week

📚 Hacker News Books – Week 49 (2025) — 13 books
multiparty vision • team productivity • math adventures await

📘 How Big Things Get Done
On HN this keeps coming up as the book on big, risky projects: why timelines slip, why “move fast” backfires, and how starting small + modular pays off. Great if you’ve ever shipped something huge and thought “we could’ve planned this way better.”

📊 HN Reading Trend – Big, complex systems
This week’s top HN books are all “how the world really works” stories:
• How Big Things Get Done (mega-projects & planning)
• A City on Mars (space settlement)
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Dark Wire (an enormous sting op)

🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 48 (2025) — 4 books ⬇️

💡 Book Insight — Working Effectively with Legacy Code

📊 HN Trend – Legacy Code
HN threads about “what legacy code means” usually boil down to one thing:
→ code that’s hard to change safely, usually because it has no tests.

📚 Hacker News Books – Week 47 (2025) — 9 books

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