Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by joshvm on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:17AM (#22702990)

After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by eatonphil on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:20AM (#22703021)

That is a good point. Also reminds me I'd like a site that lists all the references in a book so I can more easily search them on the computer and not necessarily need to even own the book.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by joshvm on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:55PM (#22708803)

This is how conventional journal publishing works, so I don't see why this couldn't be implemented for books which provide a bibliography.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by cloverich on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:42AM (#22703178)

That's a good thought. The next step is going in reverse, selecting the best referenced material and auto generating a quality non-fiction book from it. That's my dream.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by toomuchtodo on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:40PM (#22704393)

Would Wikipedia not be the best place to do this (an objective evaluation of the literature)? With links deep linking into the book with Open Library (and Internet Archive initiative)?

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by vardhanw on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:14AM (#22703484)

Would you minding pointing to what the fiasco was about. I read the book based on all round positive reviews and recommendations.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by treerock on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:40AM (#22703792)

I'd guess this

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by joshvm on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:28PM (#22707069)

I did too, and it turns out a lot of the claims are either made up (the literature doesn't support the claims, or doesn't seem to exist at all!), potentially harmful or misleading (modified plots to suit the narrative).

In hindsight some of the claims are just weird, like saying you can measure the effect of one bad night's sleep months down the line.

On the whole it got people talking about sleep, which isn't a bad thing. But, the peer review (see sibling posts) only looked at one chapter I think, so God knows what else is wrong.

I don't think anyone is doubting that you should probably get a bit more sleep, try not to blast blue lights in your face and get into a routine. Standard sleep hygiene stuff.

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by burkaman on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:38AM (#22703777)

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

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Re:Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads by odie88 on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:09PM (#22704107)

There have been a few discussions about it on HN as well, where Alexey Guyzey, author of the criticism linked, joins in on the conversation:

(4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

(1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22419958

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