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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary's retelling of world history through an Islamic lens — the same events as Western textbooks, but experienced from inside a different narrative center. One of the clearest explanations of why 'Western' and 'Islamic' worldviews talk past each other.
Distributed Consensus Reading List
Heidi Howard's curated list of papers on distributed consensus — organized from foundational Paxos through Multi-Paxos, Raft, flexible quorums, and Byzantine fault tolerance. The definitive paper trail for understanding how consensus algorithms actually work.
A Distributed Systems Reading List
Fred Hebert's curated distributed systems reading list — covering foundational papers, books, and blog posts from the Fallacies of Distributed Computing through CAP theorem, consensus, CRDTs, and failure handling. One of the more practical and opinionated guides to the field.
HN Top 40 Books of 2023
The Hacker News Top 40 most-recommended books of 2023, compiled from community discussion. SICP and DDIA top the list; the pattern across 40 books reveals HN's bias toward CS fundamentals, mathematical rigor, and timeless over trendy.
LLM Agent Paper List
A curated paper list accompanying the 86-page 'Rise and Potential of LLM-Based Agents' survey — organized by agent component (planning, memory, tool use, action) and application domain. The most comprehensive catalog of LLM agent research from September 2023.
TheSequence 2022 ML Reading List
TheSequence's 2022 ML reading list — curated books and papers for going deep on machine learning and AI. A practitioner-oriented guide to the foundational and cutting-edge literature in the field heading into 2022.
Community Reads — Kernel Fellowship
Kernel's curated reading list for their web3 education fellowship — books and articles spanning cryptography, economics, philosophy, and internet culture that form the intellectual foundation for thinking about decentralized systems.
Engineering Manager Resources
Ryan Burgess's curated list of resources for engineering managers — articles, books, podcasts, and tools covering the transition from IC to manager, team building, and technical leadership. A well-maintained starting point for new and experienced EMs.
The Best Things and Stuff of 2013 — fogus
Fogus's curated annual list of the best things in programming and technology for 2013 — blog posts, books, papers, and miscellany. A high-signal reading list from a well-read Clojure/functional programming practitioner.
Don Turnbull's Data Science Book Recommendations
DataScholars post on Don Turnbull's data science book recommendations — a 2013 curated reading list for practitioners entering the field. A period artifact showing what an experienced data scientist thought was essential reading at the height of the big data hype cycle.
The 7 Books of a Highly Effective Programmer — Fogus
Fogus's 2009 list of seven books for making a highly effective programmer — a curated reading list weighted toward PL theory, Lisp, and computation fundamentals. Influential enough that it circulated on Hacker News for years after posting.
A Crash Course in Computer Science: Reading List
A curated crash course in computer science reading list from 2012 — the canonical texts someone with practical programming experience would read to get the theoretical foundations they missed. SICP, CLRS, Dragon Book, and peers.