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The Best Engineering & Transportation Books of Hacker News
HN Books collects, ranks, and showcases the
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Hacker News.
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
· 18 HN comments -
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
· 24 HN comments -
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
· 18 HN comments -
The Design of Everyday Things
· 21 HN comments -
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
· 1 HN points · 9 HN comments -
The Soul of A New Machine
· 15 HN comments -
The Art of Electronics
· 19 HN points · 9 HN comments -
The Design of Everyday Things
· 8 HN comments -
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
· 10 HN comments -
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
· 8 HN comments -
Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)
· 8 HN comments -
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
· 8 HN comments -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
· 6 HN comments -
Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
· 6 HN comments -
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
· 8 HN comments -
The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)
· 6 HN comments -
The Works: Anatomy of a City
· 5 HN comments -
Bicycling Science, third edition (The MIT Press)
· 6 HN comments -
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
· 5 HN comments -
Digital Design and Computer Architecture
· 5 HN comments -
High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic
· 7 HN comments -
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
· 5 HN comments -
Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
· 4 HN comments -
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
· 4 HN comments -
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
· 4 HN comments -
Practical Electronics for Inventors
· 6 HN comments -
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
· 7 HN comments -
The Ashley Book of Knots
· 4 HN comments -
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9)
· 4 HN comments -
The Future of Fusion Energy
· 4 HN comments