8 ms·
Ask HN: What interesting books are you reading now?
I'm reading Richard Feynman's 'QED' right now. It is fascinating to know how much we don't know :)
- samiur1204 14y agoReading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's an incredible novel, but very dense and over 1000 pages. It's a trek, but has been so worth it so far.
- duggieawesome 14y agoThe Cuckoo's Egg. It's Clifford Stoll's story of chasing a hacker who broke through LBL during the late 80's.
- Nightrider 14y agoJust finished Alfred Lansing's incredible classic Endurance. Highly recommended.
- atlantic 14y agoAlgernon Blackwood's short stories.
- keiferski 14y ago"The Story of My Life" by Giacomo Casanova.
- woodruffc 14y agoI'm reading "The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups" by Randall Stross
- woodruffc 14y agoAlso "Start With Why" Simon Sinek
- navait 14y ago"This is Running for Your Life", a collection of essays by Michelle Orange. She writes about a trip to Beirut and her grandmother's death to discuss our cuture's relationship with nostalgia and death. Very witty and fascinating - I ook forward to reading her next book.
- toumhi 14y agoBook Yourself solid. Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
- canatan01 14y ago'Laravel: Code Happy' by Dayle Rees
- clockwork_189 14y agoThe $100 startup.
- orangethirty 14y agoSecurity Analysis - 1940 Edition. Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
- chris_dcosta 14y agoThe Half Life of Facts Most useful explanation I have found to explain why the pre-internet age grown-ups (that would also be me) get stuck thinking that facts remain always the same.
- grn 14y agoPeopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister - a great book about software projects management Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
- manoji 14y agoThe Brothers Karamazov . Incredible insight into human psyche .
- tr0ss 14y agoThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- notdrunkatall 14y agoThe Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois.
- meerita 14y agoI just finished The Checklist Manifesto. Jack Dorsey gift this when you enter Square.
- milkcircle 14y agoThe Emperor's New Mind by Sir Roger Penrose. It's a very accessible and highly fascinating discussion about whether machines will ever be able to emulate the human mind.
- Maven911 14y agoBeginner's guide to HTML5/CSS