From the linked page: A real hacker would tell you that all these books are really not needed. Who's saying that these "need" to be read? Maybe the HN title

From the linked page: A real hacker would tell you that all these books are really not needed. Who's saying that these "need" to be read? Maybe the HN title has been changed in the meantime, but this is entirely presented as a list of resources. You're not going to argue against reading books as a component of education, are you? And I don't even want to know where that "real hacker" stuff is coming from. That word hasn't meant anything concrete for over a decade.