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Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

https://readrare.com/
10•miletus•3h ago

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miletus•3h ago
hi friends!

i like building cool things so i built read rare - the rarest docs and books you've probably never read.

some of the best writing about building things was never meant to be public - steve jobs' agenda email for apple's secret top 100 offsite. facebook's little red book. the 1968 memo intel used to raise its first money. sequoia's "R.I.P. good times" deck.

most of it is buried in court exhibits, dead links, and archive scans, so i put it all on one shelf.

what's the rarest doc or book you've ever read? drop it in the comments and i'll add the best ones to the shelf.

jwpapi•14m ago
Which one do you think are the most useful to read?
carefree-bob•36m ago
This is very nice. I'm reading "The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce".

Thank you for putting this together. Bell Systems Technical Journal articles would be nice to add.

Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
913•ilreb•8h ago•490 comments

No Man Is an Island

https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island
78•zetalyrae•1h ago•31 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
319•robin_reala•5h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

https://carrierexplode.com/
120•simplyalec•2h ago•13 comments

Our $445M Series D

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
512•ahlCVA•7h ago•211 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/ideas-arent-getting-harder-to-find
54•rafaelc•2h ago•18 comments

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
153•tosh•4h ago•128 comments

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/
65•piratebroadcast•9h ago•30 comments

Sorry, I'm in a meeting

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642•splintersio•11h ago•211 comments

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

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345•franze•10h ago•145 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
399•Anon84•10h ago•201 comments

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/executive
91•gslin•2h ago•32 comments

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

https://blog.torproject.org/on-tor-relationship-with-mullvad/
71•runtimewire•5h ago•133 comments

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone
97•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

The reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges [pdf]

https://jdb19937.github.io/prime-prefix-free/ppf.pdf
9•jdb1729•4d ago•11 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
1051•jonotime•1d ago•929 comments

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model-foundry/
61•lisajaloza•2h ago•24 comments

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/almost-like-lake-como-germany-transforms-former-coal-mines-in...
161•ohjeez•5h ago•86 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
905•gmays•1d ago•176 comments

You might want to try being less creative

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-want-to-try-being-less
41•bryantwolf•2h ago•23 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
705•Michelangelo11•1d ago•279 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pyramid-jit
36•schopra909•3d ago•14 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
274•trakkstar•11h ago•177 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
303•sohkamyung•17h ago•247 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
160•nreece•15h ago•77 comments

Programming Isn't Special

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
145•ingve•13h ago•160 comments

Once: Cache CLI commands

https://github.com/alex0ptr/once
82•baquero•11h ago•37 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
536•kbyatnal•1d ago•199 comments

Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

https://mtlynch.io/why-are-coding-agents-so-dumb/
29•mtlynch•6h ago•5 comments

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

https://readrare.com/
10•miletus•3h ago•3 comments