Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?

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markus_zhang · Jan 4, 2026
"The soul of a new machine"
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ahussain · Jan 4, 2026
A philosophy of software design by John Ousterhout is the best software book I have read.
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markus_zhang · Jan 4, 2026
"Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"
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Agingcoder · Jan 4, 2026
Computer architecture a quantitative approach by Patterson and hennessy
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another_twist · Jan 4, 2026
Maybe "Advances in Financial Machine Learning" by Marcos López de Prado.
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coolThingsFirst · Jan 4, 2026
C++ concurrency in action
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aristofun · Jan 4, 2026
of a book that have couple of good ideas (about feedback system for example)
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tjr · Jan 4, 2026
I very much like a lot of the general theme of Greenspun’s Software Engineering for Internet Applications:
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