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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

Jon Erickson

4.7 on Amazon

19 HN comments

Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With: Why Bitcoin Will Be the Next Global Reserve Currency

Jason A. Williams and Jessica Walker

4.8 on Amazon

19 HN comments

Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People

Aditya Bhargava

4.6 on Amazon

18 HN comments

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

Edmond Lau and Bret Taylor

4.5 on Amazon

18 HN comments

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper , Robert Reimann , et al.

4.5 on Amazon

18 HN comments

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto

4.6 on Amazon

17 HN comments

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition

Jesse Schell

4.7 on Amazon

17 HN comments

Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python

Allen B. Downey

? on Amazon

15 HN comments

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

4.7 on Amazon

15 HN comments

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nadia Eghbal

4.6 on Amazon

15 HN comments

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

Steve Krug

4.5 on Amazon

14 HN comments

Software Engineering

Ian Sommerville

4.3 on Amazon

14 HN comments

The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition

Jordan Mechner

4.8 on Amazon

13 HN comments

Python Machine Learning: Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow 2, 3rd Edition

Sebastian Raschka and Vahid Mirjalili

4.5 on Amazon

12 HN comments

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark, Rob Shapiro, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

12 HN comments

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physicsyogionAug 10, 2017

Hacking With Swift is pretty good for learning iOS and Swift. https://www.hackingwithswift.com/

AgustusonJuly 5, 2016

The title of this article should be Hacking Calculors, part 2: Who needs fingers?

The emotional roller coaster I just went on of:

"Did I miss the release of Calculords 2?"

"No... I am not that out of it."

<click>

"Awww... Punctuation got me again."

mjturneronOct 7, 2020

I can highly recommend Paul Hudson's courses, eg, Hacking with macOS -https://www.hackingwithswift.com/store/hacking-with-macos. They are heavily Swift-focused by very good.

gapanalysisonJan 4, 2013

Good to see more books that talk about mitigation. Hacking books are great fun and insightful but they are often not as practical for admins.

oxplotonJuly 18, 2017

- Hacking in general: tinkering with things and modifying them to better suit my needs from software to electronics to woodwork to sewing and more.

- Rockclimbing = purposeful exercise with some problem solving for my busy mind

- Movies

- Lot of science/space documentaries and talks on YT

byrneseyeviewonMay 27, 2009

How is this a hack? He failed. It would be a great article if he won, but it looks like he rather transparently ignored the rules on the IRS website, and got busted.

"Hacking the War on Drugs: I put weed in my sock drawer, which worked until my roommate called the cops on me as a prank."

mdanielonMar 29, 2015

Related to selleck's answer, I enjoy the lecturer in these FSU course videos:

https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/le...

The (minimum) reading list for that class is "Hacking" as well as "The Web Application Hackers Handbook".

dmtintneronSep 20, 2015

CSS Tricks is awesome. Chris Coyier is basically the CSS god, and his posts are always about the newest and most highly relevant topics.

Joel on Software is old, and not updated often, but still an unbelievable source of knowledge about programming and especially developer careers.

And of course shameless plug for my own blog, Hacking UI, which I do read it every day since I develop it. My partner and I write about front end development, Design and everything in between.

grillisalaattionJan 15, 2017

Not new, but "Hacking - The Art of Exploitation".

globular-toastonMay 19, 2020

It's not meant to be science. It's a geek experimenting with his body. Hacking your sleeping patterns is a classic that all geeks do at some point in their journey.

d0monOct 26, 2013

Hacking Health

We try to break down the barriers to innovation in healthcare. We bring together doctors, nurses, developers and designers so they can hack without all the bureaucratic bullshit.

indigochillonOct 1, 2018

A couple I've learned from (I've left out heavily topic-specific books like Cryptography Engineering since I assume you're asking for books about general information security):

Hacking, 2nd Edition - Introduces the foundations of memory and network exploitation

[Security Engineering](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html) - An overview of a huge array of info sec topics, from "E-policy" to nuclear command security.

Advanced Penetration Testing - Focuses on simulating APT attacks, using the author's penetration testing experiences to illustrate each point.

jamornhonNov 28, 2013

Amazing, can't stop laughing!

- Ubuntu ported to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick

- Why the cheapest maple syrup is the new compose in Gmail

- Oxford announces new degree in Computer Security, Dies at 78

- Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each cashier

- Hacking the iPod: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of bed for less than an hour

navbakeronJan 25, 2021

I believe Hacking: The Art of Exploitation comes with a disc that has an exploitable image on it.

notaplumberonSep 30, 2017

Theo de Raadt @ EuroBSDcon '17 speaking about security and OpenBSD pledge.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2017-pledge.pdf

Papers referenced on slide #2:

"When Good Instructions Go Bad:
Generalizing Return-Oriented Programming to RISC" -
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/CCS08GoodInstructions....

"Hacking Blind" (BROP) http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~sorbo/brop/bittau-brop.pdf

astavrowonOct 23, 2020

Thanks! A few sites that I've found really helpful in building this include:

- Hacking With Swift (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/)

- Swift by Sundell (https://www.swiftbysundell.com/)

- Swift with Majid (https://swiftwithmajid.com/)

- The SwiftUI Lab (https://swiftui-lab.com/)

- The Lost Moa blog (https://lostmoa.com/blog)

The community has been great, too — there are countless other little blog posts, tweets, and conversations that have helped me get this off the ground. :)

nekopaonJune 11, 2013

Hacking - The next generation. I'm in the middle of developing my first web app, so I'm desperately trying to get up to speed with security. I find that there is a lot of 'I don't know what I don't know' for me with regards to security and crypto, so I'm using this book as a springboard to get a feel for the different areas of security I will need to dive into to make some informed decisions about the tech I use. (I already know not to roll my own security, but I am sick of making cargo cult decisions re sec, so I am trying to get a good foundation set up, any recommendations will be appreciated, I may even do a ask HN post about it)

apdininonJune 6, 2014

This article wrongly implies that people getting English PhDs are only doing so in order to become tenure-track English professors. But I just completed my PhD in English two weeks ago, and I'm also the TECH co-founder of a VC-backed startup. Many of my peers are not just tech savvy, they're also developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. They just also happen to be interested in studying slightly older forms of technology -- literary technologies.

Yes... books and poems and epics and dramas are all technologies, too.

I should hope the HN community isn't fooled by the _New Yorker_ article's professional typecasting. After all, Paul Graham has an entire book called _Hackers and Painters_, and he argues: "Of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things." (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html).

"Hacking" -- as both Paul Graham and much of my dissertation argues -- isn't a purely scientific discipline. It's also a humanist and aesthetic pursuit.

If you don't believe me, go pick up a collection of Emily Dickinson poems (you know... the things you probably haven't looked at since you were in 9th grade). You might be surprised to discover all of the conditional logic, the programatic loops, and the object oriented structures.

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