Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?

SCIP should always be in the list as one of the best programming books ever written.

MIT books (SICP, Algorithms)

Hands down the most eye opening technical book I've read is SICP.

"The C Programming Language" by K&R is by far the best technical book I've read.

K&R, the white book.

For a Software Engineering book, it's hard to beat The Pragmatic Programmer.

1) Clean Code 2) Pragmatic Programmer 3) Patterns for Enterprise Application Architecture There's some overlap in contents, but I feel they complement each other very well.

My suggestion: don't read another book until you've read this.

This book when combined with "The Clean Coder", and "Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code"

Super hands-on book. Since reading it, I'm writing better programs faster.

Code by Petzold is actually my favorite technical book

This book profoundly changed how I look at computers (and other things).

A brilliant book indeed!

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! Not very technical, but there's some interesting stuff in there, for example about working on the atomic bomb in WWII.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Another one is the "Little Schemer"

The Little Schemer is a more recent version of it, and really really good.

1) Clean Code 2) Pragmatic Programmer 3) Patterns for Enterprise Application Architecture There's some overlap in contents, but I feel they complement each other very well.

both books are written for non-programmers but they provide a gentle introduction to many advanced topics covered in SCIP.

Among the best is certainly "How to design Programs", http://htdp.org/ It's about Scheme. It does a better job than SICP I think

AI: A modern Approach by Russell and Norvig

I think it is one of the best books written on any topic ever period.

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