Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?

Posted by drdec 15 hours ago

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When I was young we read books like Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, Neuromancer by William Gibson and So You Want to be a Mathematician by Paul Halmos. What books are popular with young technically minded people today?

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Comment by chistev 15 hours ago

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

Comment by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Comment by chasenjohnson 15 hours ago

I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Comment by antinomicus 12 hours ago

Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.

Comment by tptacek 7 hours ago

Pretty rude response, right?

Comment by andyjohnson0 12 hours ago

I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?

Comment by drdec 11 hours ago

My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child

Comment by bcx76 14 hours ago

Mostly the Kardashian book club recos. Learn video editing in 3 days etc.