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• Any sites where you can download ebooks/ PDFs for free?

  Https://bookboon.com (Many text books, but you do have to sign up). Source: over 1 year ago

• Best websites for EBOOKS

  DigiLibraries: Download free eBooks for students and read business books for professionals online | Bookboon. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Do not buy your books through the bookstore. Look up the ISBN, find it on Amazon. The books from the store, even when they're used, are three times the price.

  Copy and pasted this. Not my original comment but these links help me tons when I was still in school. Saved hundreds. 1. https://z-lib.org - personal favorite 2. Library Genesis 3. Download free eBooks for students and read business books for professionals online 4. Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more books 5. Free Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and... Source: almost 2 years ago

• What’s something that’s clearly overpriced yet people still buy?

  Https://bookboon.com/ (free E-books | legal). Source: about 2 years ago

Hacker News Search mentions (1945)

• Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

  > seemingly always just so happen to have the outcome they have. The key word there is "seemingly". You notice what you're biased to notice and generalize based on that. People with diferent views notice different things and make different generalizations. The stronger your passions are about the topic, the stronger your generalization will be. This is why the people who talk the most about this, and make the most... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Show HN: We're building your open-source, private Salesforce

  More than that: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=openkoda @dang, this person's spamming us with marketing links. - Source: Hacker News / about 11 hours ago

• Version Control Beyond Git

  I feel that to be qualified to answer your question I need to have used a non-git VCS on a non-trivial project. Which I haven't. That said, jujutsu is the one that's most sparked my interest and seems most akin to the subset of git features that I use in my daily workflow. (In the way that everyone apparently uses a different subset of C++, I imagine everyone uses a different subset of git.) This blogpost was... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Last Hours of an Organ Donor

  It's a good read. It's very pro organ donation but also talks about the dark side of this practice, of potentially killing patients to harvest their organs, among other things. I am more familiar with the emotional toll organ donation takes on potential recipients who are basically waiting and hoping for someone young and healthy to die in a tragic accident that they might live. Because of the focus of this piece,... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Ask HN: What sites are similar to Hacker News?

  See also past discussion over the years https://hn.algolia.com/?q=similar+to+hackernews. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago