Ask YC: favorite books Recommendations from 80 sampled comments out of 80 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
mov · Dec 4, 2007 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) jdale27 · Dec 4, 2007 SICP Xichekolas · Dec 4, 2007 it's just too good rugoso · Dec 6, 2007 i think it's a great book, not a "serious" book hhm · Dec 6, 2007 Sometimes I read it and I found it fun (as a sophisticated book-game of science) mov · Dec 4, 2007 Godel Escher Bach (GEB) scylla · Dec 4, 2007 Godel Escher Bach - non fiction Locke · Dec 4, 2007 GEB:EGB - Hofstader mrtron · Dec 4, 2007 I like how GEB ties together everything with 'strange loops'.
The concept of how small pieces of something can form into something else entirely, is fascinating. rugoso · Dec 4, 2007 - Godel Esher Bach anupamkapoor · Dec 4, 2007 goedel escher bach (douglas hofstadter) jsomers · Dec 4, 2007 Godel, Escher, Bach (An Eternal Golden Braid) by Douglas Hofstadter. shayan · Dec 4, 2007 one of the best educational books I have ever read nfriedly · Dec 4, 2007 How to Win Friends and Influence People, greg · Dec 6, 2007 Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (Pirsig) wbornor · Dec 5, 2007 Dune Series (Herbert) icky · Dec 5, 2007 Dune (Frank Herbert) jraines · Dec 4, 2007 Dune estherschindler · Dec 4, 2007 Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_ (more in my youth than today, but I can probably still recite passages by heart). terpua · Dec 4, 2007 Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) icky · Dec 5, 2007 Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) mgummelt · Dec 4, 2007 Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson) icky · Dec 5, 2007 Cryptonomicon (" ") gensym · Dec 4, 2007 Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson bockris · Dec 4, 2007 especially Cryptonomicon Locke · Dec 4, 2007 The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt / Thomas Kaizyn · Dec 4, 2007 This is a great book. tmm1 · Dec 4, 2007 The Design of Everyday Things icky · Dec 5, 2007 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams) oditogre · Dec 4, 2007 Hitchhiker's Guide series nfriedly · Dec 4, 2007 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, DarrenStuart · Dec 4, 2007 got to love Hitchhikers breily · Dec 4, 2007 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gills · Dec 5, 2007 Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)