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Hacker News Books Newsletter
A weekly email with the top books mentioned on Hacker News and why they resonated with the community.
hackernewsbooks.com
📚 New here?
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter
💡 Book Insight — Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
💡 Book Insight — Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
🔎 What HN is reading this week
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🔎 What HN is reading this week
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 5 (2026) — 7 books ⬇️
February 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 5 (2026) — 7 books ⬇️
We're mostly back. I'm still backfilling some years. Basically, something happened with the Elasticsearch indices. I had some snapshots but not enough. Rookie mistakes. :)
Newsletter should go out tomorrow. Sorry for this mess.
Newsletter should go out tomorrow. Sorry for this mess.
January 28, 2026 at 3:53 PM
We're mostly back. I'm still backfilling some years. Basically, something happened with the Elasticsearch indices. I had some snapshots but not enough. Rookie mistakes. :)
Newsletter should go out tomorrow. Sorry for this mess.
Newsletter should go out tomorrow. Sorry for this mess.
The website is currently down. Something happened with Elasticsearch. Troubleshooting it now.
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The website is currently down. Something happened with Elasticsearch. Troubleshooting it now.
💡 Book Insight — The Man With the President's Mind
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💡 Book Insight — The Man With the President's Mind
🔎 What HN is reading this week
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🔎 What HN is reading this week
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 51 (2025) — 11 books
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 51 (2025) — 11 books
💡 Book Insight — The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💡 Book Insight — The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
🔎 What HN is reading this week
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🔎 What HN is reading this week
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 50 (2025) — 18 books ⬇️
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 50 (2025) — 18 books ⬇️
💡 Book Insight — Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💡 Book Insight — Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
🔎 What HN is reading this week
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🔎 What HN is reading this week
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 49 (2025) — 13 books
multiparty vision • team productivity • math adventures await
multiparty vision • team productivity • math adventures await
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 49 (2025) — 13 books
multiparty vision • team productivity • math adventures await
multiparty vision • team productivity • math adventures await
📘 How Big Things Get Done
On HN this keeps coming up as the book on big, risky projects: why timelines slip, why “move fast” backfires, and how starting small + modular pays off. Great if you’ve ever shipped something huge and thought “we could’ve planned this way better.”
On HN this keeps coming up as the book on big, risky projects: why timelines slip, why “move fast” backfires, and how starting small + modular pays off. Great if you’ve ever shipped something huge and thought “we could’ve planned this way better.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📘 How Big Things Get Done
On HN this keeps coming up as the book on big, risky projects: why timelines slip, why “move fast” backfires, and how starting small + modular pays off. Great if you’ve ever shipped something huge and thought “we could’ve planned this way better.”
On HN this keeps coming up as the book on big, risky projects: why timelines slip, why “move fast” backfires, and how starting small + modular pays off. Great if you’ve ever shipped something huge and thought “we could’ve planned this way better.”
📊 HN Reading Trend – Big, complex systems
This week’s top HN books are all “how the world really works” stories:
• How Big Things Get Done (mega-projects & planning)
• A City on Mars (space settlement)
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Dark Wire (an enormous sting op)
This week’s top HN books are all “how the world really works” stories:
• How Big Things Get Done (mega-projects & planning)
• A City on Mars (space settlement)
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Dark Wire (an enormous sting op)
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📊 HN Reading Trend – Big, complex systems
This week’s top HN books are all “how the world really works” stories:
• How Big Things Get Done (mega-projects & planning)
• A City on Mars (space settlement)
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Dark Wire (an enormous sting op)
This week’s top HN books are all “how the world really works” stories:
• How Big Things Get Done (mega-projects & planning)
• A City on Mars (space settlement)
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Dark Wire (an enormous sting op)
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 48 (2025) — 4 books ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🧵 Top Hacker News Books – Week 48 (2025) — 4 books ⬇️
💡 Book Insight — Working Effectively with Legacy Code
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💡 Book Insight — Working Effectively with Legacy Code
📊 HN Trend – Legacy Code
HN threads about “what legacy code means” usually boil down to one thing:
→ code that’s hard to change safely, usually because it has no tests.
HN threads about “what legacy code means” usually boil down to one thing:
→ code that’s hard to change safely, usually because it has no tests.
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📊 HN Trend – Legacy Code
HN threads about “what legacy code means” usually boil down to one thing:
→ code that’s hard to change safely, usually because it has no tests.
HN threads about “what legacy code means” usually boil down to one thing:
→ code that’s hard to change safely, usually because it has no tests.
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 47 (2025) — 9 books
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
📚 Hacker News Books – Week 47 (2025) — 9 books
📚 New here?
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter
Hacker News Books Newsletter
A weekly email with the top books mentioned on Hacker News and why they resonated with the community.
hackernewsbooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
📚 New here?
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter
I run Hacker News Books — a weekly roundup of the books Hacker News is talking about most.
🔸 Curated from HN threads
🔸 Focused on tech, startups, and engineering
🔸 Plus occasional deep-dive reviews
👉 Get the weekly email: hackernewsbooks.com/newsletter