No offense meant to parent commenter if I'm wrong, but looking at their comment history, does anyone else suspect this is a GPT-3 bot? I've been playing a lot in the GPT Playground this last week and this is very similar to what I get there.
"Programming Pearls" might be an exception—there are some great real-life stories and problems to think through in that.
Maybe also "The Art of Computer Programming" but I can't speak from experience (I'm not ready to tackle that one yet).
Yes, I've never before on HN thought a commenter was non-human, but most of their comments begin with similar rehashing the topic in a very weird way, like they can't stop writing ad copy. Like they were given the topic and are responding in magazine article or super-commercial-blog style - they don't have the flavour of a person talking a person.
I don't think that should be allowed on HN.
> here's our list of 10 of the best.
seems particularly listicle-y, especially with the full stop rather than a colon or nothing