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Newsletter — Week 45 Highlights (2025)

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Top 3 books this week (Nov 3–10, 2025)

  1. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
    — Cited in threads arguing the internet’s origins and incentives are inseparable from surveillance; some comments even debate Tor’s funding and trust model.

  2. 2026 Farmers’ Almanac
    — Mentioned for a quirky cover detail: a reader pointed out it appears to label 2026 as a leap year, sparking a fact-check tangent.

  3. Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective
    — Brought up in a discussion contrasting intuition vs. intellect in math/physics, with a Grothendieck quote used to illustrate the idea.

Browse the full list: Week 45 on HackerNewsBooks

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