I like the idea, but the wording might need to change as to how it counts a recommendation. As it stands Mein Kampf has been "recommended" by 651 HNers, a troubling statistic!
Noted, pushing a fix for the wording for now. Will also look into improving the recommendations.
Edit: Changed it to "mentioned by"
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To be fair, recommending it doesn't mean endorsing it, just how people read autobiographies of someone they don't like to understand them better. There's probably a bunch of good lessons to take from reading Mein Kampf, it's just that none of them are "this guy was onto something"
It should have been recommended by 1939 HNers.
Hey, maybe the aspiring entrepreneurs just want to emulate the most successful tech bro’s ? ;)
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Yeah we should read an example of a how a guy writes down exactly what hes going to do, tells everyone how hes going to do and ends up doing it because he finds out everyone doesn't believe him and he can just lie about shit publically because no one stops him.
Why would we want to forget such an example?