Ask HN: What's the Most Interesting Article You Read This Week?

yesenadam · on Feb 22, 2019

Today I came across Cosma Shalizi's review of A New Kind of Science, and his page with 169 book reviews 1995-2018, I've read half a dozen so far, they're all great - he has a very attractive style. A wide range: science, politics, social science, history, philosophy, mathematics..

http://bactra.org/reviews/

donmcc · on Feb 19, 2019

The Secret History of Women in Coding

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-com...

Contains some great stories about the early days of programming.

sunsetvalley · on Feb 19, 2019

This was interesting.

apacheCamel · on Feb 19, 2019

Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This time

https://longreads.com/2019/02/11/atlantic-city-is-really-goi...

It has quite a few things I am currently really interested in. I've never been to Atlantic City but it always seemed like an extremely fascinating place with a lot of history. The pressure of the fading desire to gamble and climate change has serious impacts and this article was a great overview of the problems they are facing.

CloudNetworking · on Feb 20, 2019

I have revisited this RDR2 review/article https://www.anaitgames.com/analisis/analisis-red-dead-redemp... - it's in Spanish.

The author of the piece recently passed at the early age of 35 and he was such a good writer that I had to go and read this masterpiece once again.

If you can read Spanish please read the article. It's an incredibly good read.

Rest in peace, pinjed.

dgarud · on Feb 20, 2019

Sometimes real life stories beat movie stories: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/the-tech-whiz-behind-vi...

koliber · on Feb 19, 2019

https://logicmag.io/06-money-machines/

How algo trading works. It's a really well-rounded analysis into a usually jargon-filled, marketing-heavy, and difficult to understand world.