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My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

bwb — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408858

Points: 48

# Comments: 13

My favorite books on how science won World War 2

bwb — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:49:59 +0000

Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/how-science-won-world-war-two

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408848

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bwb in "My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit"

bwb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:21:45 +0000

It is on my list as I keep hearing great things!

New comment by bwb in "Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content"

bwb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:05:59 +0000

I removed all friends years ago. After I read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I quit, but I still need an account for a few groups I moderate.

I think it has done more damage to this country than tobacco.

New comment by bwb in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

bwb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:08:00 +0000

FB is built on rage bait, what else do they have beside cute videos?

My favourite books to help you survive grief

bwb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:04:36 +0000

Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/helping-you-survive-grief

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270027

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit

bwb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-animal-books-that-make-you-go-holy-sht

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270015

Points: 21

# Comments: 4

New comment by bwb in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

bwb — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:05:08 +0000

I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there.

I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of user interviews to improve it. So far I've been happy.

I'm not happy they fired the old team, but I put that on the sellers and I don't know what was going on there or the company's finances.

New comment by bwb in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

bwb — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:43:18 +0000

Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.

New comment by bwb in "Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction"

bwb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:25:39 +0000

Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.

New comment by bwb in "Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction"

bwb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:24:46 +0000

I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/

If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now.

We are working on goodreads/storygraph imports, and then adding folders. It already supports multiple reads and more.

New comment by bwb in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

bwb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:13:54 +0000

I run two plugins to just invisibly make them go away, I don't care, they are a waste of my time :)

New comment by bwb in "Bordeaux considering 'total evacuation if needed' as wildfires rage nearby"

bwb — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:12:39 +0000

I live in Bordeaux, although thankfully out of town for the month. This is insane to watch, and friends say the city is full of smoke

New comment by bwb in "Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?"

bwb — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:59:18 +0000

oh gosh no, love books, building it for free. We are direct funded with premium accounts by authors and readers.

Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?

bwb — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:00:34 +0000

They shut down their API program years ago, but I was hoping to find someone who had an old key I could use.

I run BookDNA.com and it would be helpful for us. Anyone know anybody who still has a legacy key?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022755

Points: 20

# Comments: 4

New comment by bwb in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

bwb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:30:45 +0000

I live in Europe, I can make an appointment with my dentist tomorrow. I was sick 3 weeks ago and just went on video conference at 6am with my PCP.

Just to help out there :)

This has been the case in every country I've lived in within Europe (3 and counting). And a mix of rural (50,000 town) and big urban areas.

New comment by bwb in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

bwb — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:57 +0000

How does this work with sunglasses?

New comment by bwb in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

bwb — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:35:26 +0000

Ah gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible.

I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.

New comment by bwb in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

bwb — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:02:42 +0000

Anyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?

New comment by bwb in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

bwb — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:32:52 +0000

Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage?

Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?