Freedom™
by Daniel Suarez · first published 2010
73% recommend26% neutral1% critical
Why HN recommends it
Near-future techno-thriller, the sequel to Daemon, with idea-dense plotting about distributed software, AR and a new kind of community. Fun, fast page-turner for tech readers who like Stephenson or Ready Player One.
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The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller DaemonIn one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, and left readers hungry for more.Well, more is here, and it's even more gripping than its predecessor.In the opening chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is firmly in control, using an expanded network of real-world,
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The books Daemon/Freedom by Daniel Suarez was pretty entertaining on that front. The idea that people could literally affect the world around them via "magic spells" which mapped aliases of a invented language that would be picked…
on “Burn the Programmer” ↗…exploits in OSes and Browsers that would allow me to install a keylogger on your computer, completely undetected. So why are you so anti-cynical? The situation is dire. I highly recommend "Daemon" and "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez, who was a Security Consultant. Privacy is literally life and death for people. I think trying to minimize the dangers is reckless. Cheers.
on “Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years” ↗…government may try to punish. --- We all deserve privacy, and we are all almost completely denied privacy, by design, by hundreds of systems we use daily. I highly recommend the novels "Daemon" and "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez, which explore just how vulnerable our digital infrastructure is.
on “Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years” ↗Fiction: Attack Surface - Cory Doctorow Non-Fiction: Engineering General Intelligence Vol 2 - Ben Goertzel Honorable Mention - Fiction Daemon - Daniel Suarez Freedom - Daniel Suarez Billy Summers - Stephen King Elsewhere - Dean Koontz Honorable Mention - Non-Fiction: We See It All - Jon Fasman Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning…
on “Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2021?” ↗see https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731 & https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez/dp/045123189... fun reads.
on “How self-driving cars could become weapons of terror” ↗This is only tangentially related (btw I agree with you, it's out of control) but I always think back to the novels _Daemon_ and _Freedom_ by Daniel Suarez when it comes to the future of decentralized autonomous technologies. If you haven't read them, they are a fast and enjoyable read imho.
on “Decentralized Blockchain-Based Electronic Marketplaces” ↗…that your government may try to punish. We ARE in an oppressive surveillance state. Our government is tracking us. Every business is tracking us. I highly recommend the novel "Daemon" and sequel "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez. He's a former Security consultant, who wanted to wake people up to how fragile our digital infrastructure is.
on “Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years” ↗Fiction: Attack Surface - Cory Doctorow Non-Fiction: Engineering General Intelligence Vol 2 - Ben Goertzel Honorable Mention - Fiction Daemon - Daniel Suarez Freedom - Daniel Suarez Billy Summers - Stephen King Elsewhere - Dean Koontz Honorable Mention - Non-Fiction: We See It All - Jon Fasman Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning…
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…one. The others to my taste in the same category is Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam (even if a bit farfetched by now), The Diamond Age (="The Illustrated Primer" is peak AI) by Neil Stephenson and Daemon+Freedom by Daniel Suarez (=AI + crypto DAOs).
on “Accelerando (2005)” ↗Daemon and Freedom are top class hard scifi. The plot hinges on technical detail that is both completely plausible and a natural extension of existing information technology. It's obvious that Suarez really understands…
on “Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'” ↗The sequel to Daemon(by Daniel Suarez I'm assuming), Freedom, was good. I also enjoyed Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge.
on “Ask HN: I loved Snow Crash and Daemon. What should I read next?” ↗…highly regarded. 5. Pat Cadigan - I haven't read any of her stuff yet, but she is on my short-list of authors to start reading. Gets recommended a lot in these circles. 6. Daniel Suarez - Daemon and Freedom were really good. 7. Vernor Vinge - I'm only part of the way through A Fire Upon the Deep now, but so far so good. His works are also usually highly recommended amongst HN'ers. 8. Bruce Sterling - I…
on “Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change” ↗Have you tried Daemon and Freedom, a small series by Daniel Suarez?
on “Snow Crash Revisited: Grokking a Satire of Mimesis” ↗If you want to see a reputation currency treated seriously in SF, read "Daemon" and "Freedom™" by Daniel Suarez. Augmented reality meets level grinding.
on “Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies” ↗Closer to Daniel Suarez, Daemon & Freedom. http://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731 This fiction starts the autonomous corporation from a vide game. The second book shows society's evolution to cope with the new corporation.
on “Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project” ↗