Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne · first published 1988
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A man makes a bet that he can travel the world in 80 days.
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Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun. Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected"…
on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?” ↗…http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14986 Experimental Research in electricity by Michael Faraday http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215 Jack Londons call of the wild http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103 Around the world in 80 days http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3748 A Journey to the center of the earth And countless others, including Benjamin Franklins autobiography [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148]. The only sad things…
on “Put a thousand books from the British Library on your iPad for free” ↗I used to read quite a lot when I was in my early teens and this is one od two books that I vividly remember (other being Around the world in 80 days). I sincerly believe that this idea of rebuilding civilization from grounds up was responsible for me getting into STEM and becoming who I am now.
on “Surviving Disillusionment in Software Development” ↗…Line" (good, but outdated, look up what he's said about it more recently) Lincoln Child, "Deep Storm" (very good) James Patterson, "Along Came a Spider" (not my usual genre, okay though) Jules Verne, "Around the World in 80 Days" (from childhood, revisited)
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗This puts the challenge in Verne's Around the World in 80 Days into context. The story mimicked and exaggerated contemporary popular entertainment.
on “George Wilson, The Man Who Walked His Life Away” ↗Macbeth. I was forced to read it for English class (am non-native speaker) and this is the book I remember. Jules Verne - Around The World In 80 Days I read a translation of. Immanuel Kant - An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment? In the end, there is a lot of old text which I haven't read. Probably too much...
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗When I read the mysterious island for the first time, I thought of Jules Verne in terms of Journey to the Center of the Earth, or Around the World in 80 Days. The Mysterious Island absolutely bowled me over with the science and engineering.
on “Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?” ↗…understand). Same size, basically. Just two wires. That's the whole luxury element of a watch in it's essence, the idea you are getting time from it, the luxury of time. Jules Verne talks about this, in Around the World in 80 Days, there's a watch that loses a second per year. You could do that for real with that oscillator. To say nothing of the CSAC 45 chip on the market, kind of big, but somebody made a clock that loses a…
on “Exposure of fake Chinese tube amplifier (2018)” ↗…"What's the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. "Alas! In my hurry—I—I forgot—" "What?" "To turn off the gas in my room!" "Very well, young man," returned Mr. Fogg, coolly; "it will burn—at your expense." - Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, who knew that leaving the heat on while you went on vacation wouldn't burn down your house, 1872.
on “Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home” ↗It's a plot device in Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, thus before the date line was established in 1885.
on “Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)” ↗Spoiler alerts but this exactly the plot twist at the end of the book "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Day... The following day Fogg apologises to Aouda for bringing her with him since he now has to live in poverty and cannot support…
on “The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line” ↗Reading the history of circumnavigation makes this seem like a bit of an overestimate -- Around the World in 80 Days was written in the 1870s, in the 1880s someone actually did the trip in 72 days, and in the early 1900s someone replicated it in 54 days.
on “Time travel: An isochronic map of travel times from London circa 1914” ↗> What is the world, and what is the universe in your definition? The conventional meanings -- the world is the planet; the universe is the universe. Did you ever read or hear of "Around the World in 80 Days"? Ever hear that Magellan circumnavigated the world?
on “0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world” ↗I read "Around the World in 80 Days" not too long ago, and as I was reading the part where they're crossing the US I had exactly that same thought: the US was the China of the late 19th century.
on “A man whose software ate the world” ↗