Ask HN: What should I read next?

Posted by pkdpic on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I just finished Weaving the Web by Tim BL.

Liked the tech history story-time vibe a lot more than I was expecting.

Looking for something similar or slightly more hacky ("hacky") whatever that might mean.

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by Blackstrat on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:53PM (#31334592)

I have Issacson’s The Innovators in queue but haven’t started it yet. The following I’ve read:

Hackers by Levy, Soul of the Machine by Kidder, The Cuckoo’s Egg by Stoll, Turing’s Cathedral by Dyson

All are older but give a good perspective of the early days of the computer revolution.

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by CelticBard on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @12:38AM (#31323498)

When We Ceased to Understand the World by Benjamin Labtaut

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by lurker137 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#31331458)

Unix: A History and a Memoir By Brian Kernighan

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by mbgu on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:04PM (#31357812)

Notes from Underground

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by ac2u on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @12:21PM (#31328928)

Masters of Doom

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by is_true on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:48PM (#31335322)

This 100%. This book is like fuel for programming

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by hulitu on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:31AM (#31325828)

Mosaic (first web browser) source code.

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Re:Ask HN: What should I read next? by elhesuu on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:39AM (#31324174)

The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner.

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