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The Best History Books of Hacker News
HN Books collects, ranks, and showcases the
best books recommended on
Hacker News.
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
· 18 HN comments -
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
· 24 HN comments -
UNIX: A History and a Memoir
· 123 HN points · 15 HN comments -
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
· 23 HN comments -
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
· 18 HN comments -
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
· 15 HN comments -
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
· 16 HN comments -
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
· 12 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 -
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
· 13 HN comments -
The Wisdom of Crowds
· 8 HN comments -
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
· 10 HN comments -
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
· 9 HN comments -
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
· 8 HN comments -
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
· 14 HN comments -
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
· 3 HN points · 7 HN comments -
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
· 8 HN comments -
The Way of Zen
· 6 HN comments -
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
· 10 HN comments -
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
· 5 HN comments -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
· 9 HN comments -
Bicycling Science, third edition (The MIT Press)
· 6 HN comments -
Collected Fictions
· 5 HN comments -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
· 8 HN comments -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
· 5 HN comments -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
· 10 HN comments -
Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
· 4 HN comments -
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
· 4 HN comments -
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
· 13 HN comments