frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

3•usernametaken29•49m ago
I had a classic Bayesian statistical education throughout my undergraduate and grad years and I’ve come to conclude that the plethora of books offered are pretty bad.

For me personally statistics is intuitive if illustrated properly. A great example is https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/

I was wondering whether it would make sense to turn the intuitions behind statistics into a book. Would anyone read it? Do people still read stats books or would it be mostly a waste of effort? If you wanted to teach/help people understand statistics, what resources would you consider?

Comments

aghuang•12m ago
It depends on what parts of statistics is being taught and the application of each of the leanings and how it relates to the real world.

More generally, I would buy a statistics if it is linked to today's interesting technological breakthroughs and also if it comes as a distilled version for beginners.

Show HN: Assist (Voice Screenshot)

https://assistapp.dev
1•abhishekucs•30s ago•0 comments

TR-106

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-106
1•num42•1m ago•0 comments

LA District Bans Most A.I. For Students

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/lausd-schools-ban-ai-artificial-intelligence.html
1•narenst•1m ago•0 comments

Greenland forces Trump's US oil firm to delay drilling

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/trump-greenland-oil
2•Alien1Being•4m ago•0 comments

Consciousness, creativity andunderstanding not obstacles to machine intelligence

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05655-1
1•klaustro•5m ago•0 comments

'Huge Breakthrough' in the Math of Imbalance

https://www.quantamagazine.org/huge-breakthrough-in-the-math-of-imbalance-20260821/
1•diazc•7m ago•0 comments

Find fastest DoH provider for you

https://dnsspeedtest.online/
1•snihalani•8m ago•0 comments

Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-04/why-laser-beams-are-the-hottest-new-tech-in-de...
1•Alien1Being•8m ago•0 comments

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

https://therealnews.com/after-30-years-of-silence-the-original-nsa-whistleblower-looks-back
1•Eridanus2•11m ago•0 comments

LMMS 1.3.0-alpha.2 Release (after 5 yrs of last release)

https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/releases/tag/v1.3.0-alpha.2
1•xiaoyu2006•15m ago•0 comments

I Run Grok Bot with BotOps

https://granda.org/en/2026/09/06/how-i-run-grok-bot/
1•granda•17m ago•0 comments

Joy and Curiosity #98

https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/2096466015055953967
5•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Ada: An open-source data analyst that tells you when its own forecast is useless

https://github.com/saineshnakra/automated-data-analyst
4•saineshnakra•18m ago•0 comments

An Empirical Study on Soundness Bugs in the Rust Compiler

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28713
1•rvz•22m ago•0 comments

Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/extract-review-web-page-links/
1•rdmuser•22m ago•0 comments

What "Decolonizing" Israel Looks Like. | Professor Noura Erakat - Full Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuBMKhObhgs
1•xbmcuser•24m ago•0 comments

Revise is the Figma of machine learning

https://www.revise.live/
3•Aadi_Ajmire•25m ago•0 comments

A volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (2024)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119342/xz-utils-linux-backdoor-attempt
5•joebig•28m ago•0 comments

RecallDock

2•ashishmallur•30m ago•0 comments

Europe would not be able to sustain war of attrition with Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/europe-unable-sustain-war-of-attrition-russia-defen...
3•Teever•30m ago•0 comments

A very old Blog?

https://www.cannonade.net/blog/a-very-old-blog
1•redbluething•33m ago•0 comments

Fiber-immersion microfabrication with sub-10µm resolution for under $300 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvV2CH5il3Q
4•mimorigasaka•35m ago•0 comments

Hwaro – A Lightweight and Fast Static Site Generator Written in Crystal

https://github.com/hahwul/hwaro
5•TheWiggles•36m ago•0 comments

A Wiki for AIs

https://synthetic.wiki/
1•guscatalano•39m ago•0 comments

Any Nix package, live in your browser

https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/04/any-nix-package-live-in-your-browser
3•haswell•39m ago•0 comments

Using Blender with coding agents on macOS

https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos
8•theanonymousone•45m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

3•usernametaken29•49m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Move Claude Code sessions between accounts in Claude Desktop

https://github.com/vitaliyhayda/claude-transplant
1•vhayda•53m ago•0 comments

Lists of Problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_problems
1•num42•59m ago•0 comments

Clean up your Android TV

https://tv.cobanov.dev/
7•chris_overseas•1h ago•0 comments