Ask HN: Reading material for a long trip

3 pointsHockenbrizzle9y ago1 comments

Hey folks,

I have come across some nice articles, short stories, short writings, etc, since I started reading HN. For instance some things by M. Twain, E.M. Forrester, A Huxley, Asimov, Mohsin Hamid, and Vannevar Bush were recently posted to HN.

I will soon be on a long trip and would like to bring some reading material along. Could some of you post pdf links to recent pieces that you have read and found interesting?

I don't really have predilections for anything, so just about any topic would be fine.

Thanks!

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mindcrime9y ago

Zilog Z-80 User's Manual:

http://www.zilog.com/appnotes_download.php?FromPage=DirectLi...

Design For A Brain - W. Ross Ashby

https://archive.org/download/designforbrain00ashb/designforb...

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency - Nikola Tesla

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13476.epub.images

Capitalism - A Treatise on Economics

http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 1)

http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24592.pdf

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 2)

http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/24593_APM_v...

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 3)

https://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24594.pdf

If you like sci-fi, check out the Baen Free Library:

http://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html

and of course there's bound to be something at Project Gutenberg that you'd find interesting. You might find it interesting to go browse around there a bit.

Also note that you can export Wikipedia articles as PDF and you can even compose "books" made up of multiple Wikipedia articles. So if there's some topic you've been meaning to read up on, maybe go make yourself a WP book on that subject and take that along on your trip.

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