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Ask HN: Looking for a Book

2•phoenixhaber•1h ago
I'm looking for a book that features a girl that has a dragon tattoo on her arm and I know for a fact that it exists and I read it relatively recently.

It's pre the 2005 book by Stieg Larsson and google says that it doesn't exist

https://share.google/aimode/3jUEc4xVBrQMIphGI

What is the book?

Comments

cranberryturkey•1h ago
the girl with the dragon tattoo?
orionblastar•1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tatto...
phoenixhaber•1h ago
It's "pre the book by Stieg Larsson" - It's not the girl with the dragon tattoo. It's a book that specifically references a girl that has a tattoo of a dragon on her shoulder and I can't remember what the book is.
nis0s•1h ago
What an interesting experiment to see if LLMs make better search engines (they do, more or less). I found Last dragon chronicles by d’Lacey, Dragons eye by Steer, and Dragonfly in Amber by Gabaldon. There are some details about the characters which have the tattoos, but I am not sure how accurate those details are. There’s also Dragons daughter by McLaughlin.
phoenixhaber•1h ago
Specifically it has to be within the text and not the title itself.
nis0s•1h ago
Glad you found it, I enjoyed watching the LLM think through its process of finding the right candidates. It was a good exercise in understanding reasoning.
phoenixhaber•1h ago
Never mind found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hobb
phoenixhaber•1h ago
"Serial Killer" from Hackers. And then there's "lord nikon" wherein someone will make you go blind and so on. It's obnoxious as fuck. This shit is happening all over San Francisco. So you'll be poisoned and then you'll end up either going blind, forgetting what you read after you have headaches and no one will tell you what the book is (including the LLM models), or something else. They also have it so that you're fingers, bones and you mouth all get fucked up from disease. But "hiding the books" while giving you brain damage is fun if by "fun" that means horrifying. The people that are doing this shit are doing so so that if you write something it won't be original and even if people give you money you'll end up just reiterating shit from the past. And if you read books and you're disliked, any time you read anything interesting someone will have your food poisoned unless you have the ability to cook your own food. good luck doing that when the rent here is so fucking expensive that you have to suck off someone at the welfare office in order to get a place to live.

Come to San Francisco so they can poison you and make you go blind and then you forget all the books you read while the AI algorithms give you shit books in return and you end up having dementia.

They're fucking shit.

And yes, it's a movie. It's also a playbook on how to drug someone with sick repeatedly so that the only thing that they know anything about is bullshit. It sucks how fucking awful they all are here.

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