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Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through? 2026-09-16 · 22 comments · 11 books
Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook? 2026-09-06 · 67 comments · 16 books
Ask HN: Books Recommendations? 2026-09-05 · 11 comments · 20 books
Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read? 2026-08-27 · 21 comments · 12 books
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes 2026-08-23 · 126 comments · 9 books
Seven books I keep close because I love them 2026-08-14 · 188 comments · 18 books
Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century? 2026-07-20 · 14 comments · 8 books
Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor 2026-07-19 · 53 comments · 3 books
Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader 2026-07-17 · 58 comments · 9 books
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning 2026-07-16 · 26 comments · 5 books
War Books: The Marine Corps Commandant's 2026 Reading List 2026-06-18 · 14 comments · 1 books
Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer 2026-05-15 · 213 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? 2026-05-02 · 15 comments · 15 books
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics 2026-04-26 · 48 comments · 5 books
An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road 2026-04-21 · 32 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2026-03-09 · 29 comments · 18 books
Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read 2025-12-29 · 41 comments · 6 books
My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before 2025-10-26 · 173 comments · 69 books
Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project 2025-10-02 · 73 comments · 13 books
Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read? 2025-07-15 · 26 comments · 25 books
The Mensa Reading List for Grades 9-12 2025-04-06 · 119 comments · 29 books
The little book about OS development 2025-03-21 · 54 comments · 4 books
Best Books ever of 10 years' votes at 4chan /lit/ 2025-02-25 · 52 comments · 19 books
AI Engineer Reading List 2025-01-13 · 68 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software development? 2025-01-13 · 42 comments · 21 books
Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things 2025-01-06 · 437 comments · 116 books
My Favorite Book on AI 2025-01-05 · 110 comments · 6 books
Books I Loved Reading in 2024 2025-01-01 · 175 comments · 68 books
Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year? 2024-11-28 · 150 comments · 88 books
Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024? 2024-11-23 · 57 comments · 30 books
SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010) 2024-11-16 · 180 comments · 20 books
Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? 2024-10-06 · 940 comments · 326 books
Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java 2024-09-23 · 168 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups? 2024-09-15 · 74 comments · 22 books
Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o 2024-09-07 · 61 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite classic books? 2024-08-13 · 46 comments · 28 books
Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read? 2024-08-06 · 49 comments · 68 books
How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself? 2024-07-20 · 121 comments · 7 books
Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024? 2024-05-21 · 83 comments · 28 books
What's the most radical book you've read? 2024-05-19 · 54 comments · 27 books
Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder 2024-05-19 · 27 comments · 2 books
Show HN: I made a books recommendation app based on your mood 2024-03-26 · 69 comments · 7 books
J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books 2024-02-08 · 48 comments · 7 books
A distributed systems reading list 2024-02-08 · 56 comments · 4 books
Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022) 2024-02-04 · 317 comments · 22 books
DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019) 2024-02-03 · 102 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? 2024-01-08 · 131 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO? 2023-12-29 · 142 comments · 27 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024? 2023-12-07 · 234 comments · 149 books
Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer? 2023-11-11 · 70 comments · 32 books
Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API 2023-10-04 · 206 comments · 44 books
Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business? 2023-10-03 · 44 comments · 7 books
Books for Game Developers 2023-09-15 · 59 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Best books to learn web development? 2023-08-30 · 49 comments · 5 books
Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? 2023-08-17 · 520 comments · 169 books
Is this a good book for me, now? 2023-08-16 · 61 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: Best Resources and Books for a Soon-to-Be-Dad? 2023-06-29 · 38 comments · 2 books
Ask HN: What's the best book on religion? 2023-05-28 · 98 comments · 24 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books? 2023-05-21 · 163 comments · 128 books
Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read? 2023-05-13 · 169 comments · 75 books
Pearson taking legal action over use of its textbooks to train language models 2023-05-09 · 60 comments · 1 books
Five Books: The best books on everything 2023-05-07 · 85 comments · 20 books
Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read? 2023-04-27 · 60 comments · 6 books
A visual book recommender 2023-04-27 · 54 comments · 16 books
Show HN: Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI 2023-04-12 · 102 comments · 37 books
Ask HN: Courses/textbook recommendations for studying robotics? 2023-04-04 · 39 comments · 4 books
Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3 2023-02-03 · 57 comments · 3 books
St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum 2023-02-02 · 151 comments · 57 books
The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed 2023-01-29 · 129 comments · 4 books
Florida teachers could face felony for books in classroom not approved by state 2023-01-28 · 99 comments · 13 books
Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity 2023-01-22 · 62 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math? 2023-01-19 · 317 comments · 83 books
Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects? 2023-01-17 · 203 comments · 29 books
Books for Software Engineers in 2023 2023-01-02 · 117 comments · 34 books
Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date? 2022-12-31 · 85 comments · 47 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023 2022-12-28 · 201 comments · 165 books
Ask HN: Best books read in 2022? 2022-12-04 · 249 comments · 58 books
Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver? 2022-11-30 · 237 comments · 97 books
Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school? 2022-11-19 · 97 comments · 48 books
Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click? 2022-11-14 · 503 comments · 107 books
Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022? 2022-10-29 · 278 comments · 87 books
Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022? 2022-10-17 · 40 comments · 28 books
Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022? 2022-10-08 · 160 comments · 23 books
Ask HN: Books for Reevaluation of Life 2022-10-04 · 34 comments · 16 books
Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in? 2022-09-22 · 207 comments · 158 books
Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020) 2022-09-20 · 115 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study? 2022-09-10 · 262 comments · 131 books
Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more? 2022-09-04 · 117 comments · 92 books
The Best Books on the Great Divergence 2022-08-26 · 86 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: Favorite audio book for long drives? 2022-08-13 · 54 comments · 53 books
Free online textbooks work 2022-08-03 · 49 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when? 2022-07-22 · 88 comments · 74 books
Books That Changed How I Hear Music 2022-07-08 · 36 comments · 12 books
Ask HN: What is the best book you have read with the greatest impact on you? 2022-06-13 · 49 comments · 49 books
Ask HN: What are the best short tech/engineering books you have read? 2022-06-12 · 26 comments · 21 books
Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? 2022-05-27 · 44 comments · 8 books
Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study? 2022-03-27 · 273 comments · 68 books
Ask HN: What book changed your life? 2022-03-19 · 521 comments · 231 books
Ask HN: Book recommendations for renewable energy and climate change? 2022-03-09 · 29 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS? 2022-02-27 · 205 comments · 102 books
Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book? 2022-02-19 · 83 comments · 144 books
Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022? 2022-02-16 · 59 comments · 44 books
Open Textbook Initiative 2022-02-09 · 87 comments · 8 books
Ask HN: What books have you read that have changed your life? 2022-02-07 · 27 comments · 27 books
Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity? 2022-02-06 · 124 comments · 30 books
Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021? 2021-12-26 · 30 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? 2021-12-24 · 631 comments · 229 books
Ask HN: What are the best books for professional effectiveness? 2021-12-18 · 59 comments · 36 books
Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment 2021-12-13 · 122 comments · 1 books
The Great British Reading List 2021-12-12 · 38 comments · 2 books
Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021? 2021-12-10 · 38 comments · 15 books
Radical Polish books to add to your reading list 2021-12-09 · 51 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021? 2021-12-06 · 33 comments · 3 books
Books that changed my career as a software engineer 2021-11-28 · 279 comments · 63 books
Books I loved reading this year 2021-11-22 · 151 comments · 16 books
My Emacs Lisp book is finished 2021-11-09 · 61 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read? 2021-09-26 · 54 comments · 26 books
Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning 2021-09-20 · 273 comments · 56 books
High Performance Organizations Reading List 2021-09-13 · 40 comments · 4 books
Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free 2021-08-18 · 57 comments · 4 books
The best books on assassinations 2021-08-15 · 36 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: Modern Sci-Fi Book Recommendations? 2021-08-04 · 41 comments · 24 books
Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers? 2021-06-27 · 71 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List 2021-06-25 · 65 comments · 41 books
Ask HN: Book under 100 pages that changed your life the most? 2021-06-16 · 38 comments · 27 books
Trying to study textbooks effectively: a year of experimentation 2021-06-08 · 63 comments · 4 books
In Praise of Open Source Textbooks 2021-06-06 · 104 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Books for Effective Communication 2021-06-05 · 54 comments · 15 books
The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius 2021-05-19 · 108 comments · 8 books
A reading list for new engineering managers 2021-04-10 · 58 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: Which book/essay changed your life? 2021-03-25 · 46 comments · 48 books
Show HN: I wrote a book about Go 2021-03-24 · 157 comments · 2 books
Ask HN: What books have you read recently? 2021-03-17 · 25 comments · 21 books
Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books 2021-03-08 · 56 comments · 4 books
Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems 2021-02-24 · 96 comments · 2 books
How can I get list of textbooks being used in top colleges? 2021-01-28 · 38 comments · 1 books
Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost 2021-01-17 · 90 comments · 2 books
My Favorite Books 2020 2020-12-31 · 115 comments · 50 books
Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020? 2020-12-31 · 57 comments · 55 books
Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online 2020-12-29 · 53 comments · 10 books
Ask HN: Best books for dealing with workplace politics and dishonesty? 2020-12-27 · 41 comments · 16 books
Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life? 2020-12-24 · 138 comments · 84 books
Good Books for a Lousy Year 2020-12-09 · 124 comments · 31 books
Distributed Systems Reading List 2020-12-06 · 76 comments · 4 books
Free Linear Algebra textbook 2020-10-26 · 75 comments · 5 books
Brutality of Life Reading List 2020-09-13 · 52 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design? 2020-09-05 · 90 comments · 7 books
Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook 2020-08-31 · 54 comments · 3 books
Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs 2020-08-30 · 72 comments · 5 books
Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be 2020-08-11 · 54 comments · 14 books
Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator 2020-07-20 · 87 comments · 2 books
Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager? 2020-07-02 · 187 comments · 81 books
Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff 2020-06-29 · 101 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks? 2020-06-11 · 108 comments · 74 books
Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once? 2020-06-09 · 106 comments · 131 books
Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers? 2020-05-30 · 102 comments · 33 books
Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? 2020-05-12 · 719 comments · 314 books
Books I recommend to my software engineering students 2020-04-23 · 116 comments · 40 books
Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) 2020-04-22 · 661 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life? 2020-03-29 · 584 comments · 238 books
Ask HN: Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business? 2020-03-28 · 99 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books? 2020-03-26 · 154 comments · 74 books
Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems? 2020-03-14 · 204 comments · 47 books
How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) 2020-02-17 · 57 comments · 5 books
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? 2020-02-11 · 178 comments · 35 books
Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free 2020-01-21 · 84 comments · 11 books
Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? 2020-01-19 · 388 comments · 96 books
Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers 2020-01-13 · 234 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? 2019-12-28 · 417 comments · 290 books
Ask HN: Best book to gift someone for getting into software engineering? 2019-12-22 · 33 comments · 17 books
Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers? 2019-12-21 · 49 comments · 31 books
Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks 2019-12-21 · 46 comments · 12 books
Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? 2019-12-16 · 320 comments · 285 books
Ask HN: Which is the best book on nutrition? 2019-12-16 · 39 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019? 2019-12-14 · 71 comments · 48 books
Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations? 2019-12-11 · 45 comments · 25 books
Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams? 2019-12-05 · 209 comments · 61 books
The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read 2019-11-29 · 150 comments · 21 books
The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years 2019-11-18 · 27 comments · 7 books
Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018) 2019-11-04 · 48 comments · 25 books
Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics? 2019-10-24 · 171 comments · 41 books
Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science? 2019-10-21 · 192 comments · 63 books
What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers? 2019-10-02 · 61 comments · 21 books
Hard comp-fi reading list 2019-09-30 · 155 comments · 43 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago? 2019-09-08 · 237 comments · 104 books
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’ 2019-08-09 · 260 comments · 32 books
Ask HN: Which is the best spiritual book you have read? 2019-07-22 · 25 comments · 23 books
Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer? 2019-07-02 · 296 comments · 105 books
Show HN: Reading list of popular Hacker News users 2019-06-20 · 36 comments · 1 books
A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out 2019-05-31 · 66 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: Which books teach mental models? 2019-05-12 · 92 comments · 33 books
Writing a Technical Book for Manning 2019-04-19 · 54 comments · 1 books
Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics? 2019-04-09 · 33 comments · 37 books
Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook 2019-03-24 · 92 comments · 3 books
Books I Recommend 2019-02-25 · 147 comments · 23 books
Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners 2019-02-16 · 56 comments · 36 books
Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? 2019-02-05 · 1,165 comments · 452 books
Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook 2019-01-27 · 60 comments · 6 books
The Best History Books 2018 2018-12-27 · 28 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018? 2018-12-23 · 62 comments · 45 books
Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? 2018-12-23 · 332 comments · 162 books
Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? 2018-12-12 · 150 comments · 14 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? 2018-12-12 · 347 comments · 431 books
Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations 2018-10-14 · 40 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? 2018-09-30 · 272 comments · 82 books
U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year 2018-09-29 · 64 comments · 4 books
How to read a mathematics textbook (2016) 2018-09-23 · 37 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life? 2018-09-13 · 218 comments · 95 books
Ask HN: As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read? 2018-09-08 · 38 comments · 34 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time? 2018-09-04 · 86 comments · 131 books
Ask HN: Best books on the psychology of religion? 2018-09-03 · 37 comments · 16 books
Ask HN: What books do you recommend reading once a year? 2018-08-21 · 32 comments · 25 books
OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks 2018-08-12 · 55 comments · 6 books
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject 2018-07-26 · 186 comments · 38 books
YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List 2018-07-24 · 97 comments · 24 books
Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read? 2018-07-15 · 137 comments · 127 books
Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? 2018-07-12 · 391 comments · 233 books
Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times? 2018-07-12 · 58 comments · 49 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks? 2018-07-06 · 85 comments · 28 books
Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life? 2018-05-27 · 176 comments · 102 books
Harvard Classics Book Download 2018-05-26 · 71 comments · 18 books
Book recommendation: Measure what matters 2018-05-17 · 82 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? 2018-05-11 · 374 comments · 176 books
Ask HN: Which book have you read, but do not recommend? 2018-04-08 · 26 comments · 4 books
Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning 2018-04-04 · 54 comments · 16 books
At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners 2018-03-19 · 50 comments · 3 books
The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind 2018-03-16 · 186 comments · 7 books
Ask HN: What's an (article|book|vid) that changed the way you view programming? 2018-03-02 · 29 comments · 13 books
The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books 2018-02-16 · 99 comments · 11 books
My new favorite book of all time 2018-01-29 · 396 comments · 11 books
Ask HN: What books are you currently reading? 2018-01-16 · 43 comments · 37 books
Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read? 2018-01-05 · 69 comments · 39 books
Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017? 2018-01-01 · 31 comments · 47 books
Good books for deep hacks 2017-12-31 · 46 comments · 10 books
Ask HN: Any recommended books on developing mental models? 2017-12-26 · 61 comments · 28 books
Ask HN: What is the best book you read on 2017? 2017-12-21 · 45 comments · 43 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? 2017-12-19 · 94 comments · 135 books
Game Theory: Open Access textbook 2017-12-13 · 54 comments · 2 books
Annual survey of book recommendations 2017-12-10 · 31 comments · 4 books
Books I read this year 2017-12-04 · 255 comments · 4 books
Reddit's favorite programming books, from 3.5B comments 2017-12-02 · 32 comments · 11 books
Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017? 2017-11-28 · 64 comments · 47 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why? 2017-11-05 · 110 comments · 121 books
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks 2017-10-14 · 77 comments · 3 books
A Comparison of Four Algorithms Textbooks (2016) 2017-10-07 · 46 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? 2017-09-02 · 247 comments · 209 books
Ask HN: What are some good books you have read lately? 2017-08-15 · 42 comments · 37 books
Summer Reading List 2017-08-03 · 272 comments · 59 books
Ask HN: What books are you currently reading? 2017-07-26 · 80 comments · 60 books
Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code? 2017-07-24 · 158 comments · 47 books
Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have? 2017-07-11 · 63 comments · 30 books
Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics? 2017-06-28 · 76 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: What books are you reading? 2017-06-21 · 36 comments · 28 books
Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective 2017-06-18 · 78 comments · 12 books
Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? 2017-06-05 · 337 comments · 132 books
Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier? 2017-06-03 · 270 comments · 198 books
Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript? 2017-06-01 · 93 comments · 11 books
Textbook manifesto (2016) 2017-04-09 · 156 comments · 11 books
Alan Kay's reading list 2017-04-03 · 42 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why? 2017-03-27 · 332 comments · 133 books
Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015) 2017-03-19 · 74 comments · 3 books
Ask HN: Best books on AI? 2017-03-18 · 91 comments · 17 books
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project? 2017-02-16 · 229 comments · 33 books
The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow 2017-02-08 · 246 comments · 59 books
Learn C Programming with Open-Source Books 2017-02-06 · 49 comments · 5 books
Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently? 2017-02-04 · 213 comments · 120 books
Military Reading List 2017-02-03 · 48 comments · 10 books
Ask HN: Most influential books you read growing up 2017-01-30 · 25 comments · 13 books
What are must read books for entry level C programmer? 2017-01-18 · 25 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently? 2017-01-15 · 186 comments · 57 books
Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? 2017-01-02 · 69 comments · 53 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2016? 2016-12-22 · 321 comments · 439 books
YC's Winter Reading List 2016-12-12 · 214 comments · 39 books
YC's Winter Reading List 2016-12-06 · 28 comments · 5 books
My Favorite Books of 2016 2016-12-05 · 138 comments · 15 books
Ask HN: What book did you read in 2016 that was so good you gifted it to others? 2016-11-17 · 42 comments · 30 books
Programming books you might want to consider reading 2016-10-16 · 131 comments · 22 books
Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design? 2016-10-14 · 86 comments · 17 books
Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance? 2016-09-22 · 269 comments · 89 books
Ask HN: What good books have you read lately? 2016-09-11 · 42 comments · 58 books
A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket 2016-08-30 · 93 comments · 10 books
Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? 2016-08-07 · 514 comments · 282 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite books? 2016-07-14 · 44 comments · 62 books
Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016? 2016-07-10 · 52 comments · 82 books
Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps 2016-06-02 · 100 comments · 4 books
Alan Kay's reading list 2016-05-30 · 168 comments · 33 books
Ask HN: What good books have you read in 2016? 2016-05-15 · 31 comments · 30 books
Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished 2016-04-07 · 126 comments · 9 books
Ask HN: Book Recommendations? 2016-03-05 · 81 comments · 98 books
Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments 2016-01-18 · 181 comments · 48 books
Advanced Algebra textbooks 2016-01-10 · 38 comments · 4 books
Ask HN: Books you read in 2015? 2015-12-23 · 164 comments · 293 books
YC's 2015 Reading List 2015-12-20 · 71 comments · 28 books
Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think? 2015-12-19 · 35 comments · 38 books
The Best Books I Read in 2015 2015-12-07 · 143 comments · 21 books
Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2015 2015-11-09 · 30 comments · 45 books
Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his boss 2015-10-22 · 33 comments · 2 books
Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read? 2015-10-03 · 28 comments · 53 books
Ask HN: Best books or videos to get better at sales? 2015-09-17 · 69 comments · 23 books
Ask HN: Great nontech book that you read recently? 2015-09-13 · 34 comments · 22 books
Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language? 2015-09-07 · 45 comments · 26 books
Ask HN: What books are you reading? 2015-09-05 · 79 comments · 71 books
Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read? 2015-06-07 · 145 comments · 112 books
The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious 2015-05-28 · 98 comments · 5 books
Prof. Sussman's Reading List 2015-04-20 · 75 comments · 10 books
Ask HN: What are the books that changed the perspective of your life? 2015-04-09 · 118 comments · 94 books
Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2015-04-09 · 388 comments · 283 books
Ask HN: How much do you remember from books you read only once? 2015-04-04 · 48 comments · 2 books
Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader 2015-04-04 · 32 comments · 12 books
Ask HN: I have $2k for books, training and confs. What should I spend it on? 2015-02-13 · 54 comments · 12 books
The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read (2014) 2015-02-08 · 46 comments · 20 books
What are your favorite sci-fi and fantasy books? 2015-01-25 · 32 comments · 46 books
The Best Books I Read in 2014 2014-12-08 · 72 comments · 6 books
Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014? 2014-12-08 · 284 comments · 148 books
Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read 2014-09-28 · 90 comments · 12 books
Ask HN: What book are you reading right now? 2014-07-30 · 86 comments · 62 books
Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored 2014-07-30 · 75 comments · 103 books
Ask HN: What book are you reading? 2014-07-12 · 28 comments · 29 books
Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book 2014-07-11 · 61 comments · 7 books
Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading? 2014-06-30 · 80 comments · 79 books
Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently? 2014-05-16 · 90 comments · 58 books
Alan Kay's Reading List 2014-04-06 · 59 comments · 10 books
Best development book I've read, has no code in it 2014-01-12 · 89 comments · 21 books
Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013? 2013-12-28 · 177 comments · 59 books
Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2013? 2013-12-13 · 27 comments · 25 books
The Best Books I Read in 2013 2013-12-13 · 156 comments · 64 books
Ask HN: Which book are you reading? 2013-11-08 · 47 comments · 37 books
Ask: Read a book that changed your life? Title? 2013-09-19 · 30 comments · 34 books
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