Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations

Re:Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations by wannabebarista on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:03AM (#46272459)

1. Differential Privacy (2025) by Simson Garfinkel

A readable but thorough introduction to differential privacy.

2. Tales of the Weird: An Uncanny Introduction (2023)

A collection of short stories from the British Library to introduce the many flavors of weird fiction.

3. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (1980) by John R. Pierce

A fun survey of information theory with great anecdotes about Bell Labs in mid-century.

See my full list here: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2025/

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Re:Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations by marai2 on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:34PM (#46280216)

quite an interesting list of books for 2025. I’ll have to get some of these to read. Especially the Information theory one above and the one you mentioned in your review.

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