Ask HN: light technical read for commute hour?

Programming Pearls is a good book although you may want to bring a pen, so you can work on some of the problems. Or you can just do them in your head.

I came here to suggest the same book. I didn't do all the problems but it was definitely the best commit hour companion I've had.

Thanks I am ordering this one right away. I will probably order Applied cryptography as well.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingstone. Its not technical however it is full of interviews from a good selection of the most famous startup founders of this generation.

There are a lot of Y combinator interviews and even one with our very own Paul Graham.

If you haven't read it already, applied cryptography by schnieir is a fun read.

Looks interesting but title says it contains C code.

The first half vontains only pseudo code.