HACKER Q&A
📣 he11ow

What did you buy after reading about it here?


A lot of the books I've bought in recent years came from recommendations here. Usually they weren't even in recommendation threads, but just randomly coming up in comments.

Some are ones you see coming up a lot: The Mom Test, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Refactoring UI, Don't Make Me Think.

But then some were just way off my radar, like the writings of sociologist Edward T. Hall or Stephen Baxter's sci-fi.

I also bought a lifetime subscription for an app I found here, but mostly it was books.

What did you buy after reading a recommendation on HN?

  👤 mindcrime Accepted Answer ✓
I'm sure there are a number, and I probably can't remember most of them off-hand. But a few come to mind:

The Pyramid Principle

The Mom Test

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming -- this one so recently that my copy hasn't even arrived yet. I think I found out about it literally like maybe 3 days ago or so.

The Master and Margarita

Solaris

The Gervais Principle

Not sure if I've ever bought anything besides books based off of an HN recommendation or not. Thinking about it, I'd guess probably at least once, but if so I can't recall what it was now.

👤 guiambros
Crafting Interpreters [1]

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/

👤 ss108
1491. Highlight recommend it, as well as the sequel 1493. The fact that the stuff in those books isn't common knowledge we all learn in history in school is quite disappointing.

Probably a couple books related to software as well, but the above really stand out.

👤 mellowagain
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31034487

👤 toomuchtodo
Aviron row machine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467

👤 eimrine
I have bought SICP and Mythical Man-Month. These are not the only ones I have bought, but to tell the truth others were not worth of it.
👤 pussycat
A purism laptop and an aeron chair.
👤 themodelplumber
The Ware Tetrology