Depending on what you mean by hacker culture: In the "unauthorized access" sense, Sneakers is great, especially with how they much they make use of social engi

Depending on what you mean by hacker culture: In the "unauthorized access" sense, Sneakers is great, especially with how they much they make use of social engineering. Pretty good from a technical perspective too- I think if you replaced the Mcguffin with a quantum computer that can break asymmetric crypto algos the plot would hold up just as well today (not coincidentally, Len Adleman, the A in "RSA", was a technical consultant). On the "building something cool in a scrappy way" (aka engineering porn), I'd go with The Martian