#44 in the ranking · fiction · 1992
Snow Crash
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, published in 1992, is cited by 197 people in conversations on Hacker News. It shows up in all 20 years, from 2007 to 2026, with the most mentions in 2015. People who cite it also cite Cryptonomicon, Dune and The Three-Body Problem.
Year by year
Peak: 28 mentions in 2015
Mentions per year: 2007: 2; 2008: 7; 2009: 2; 2010: 7; 2011: 7; 2012: 11; 2013: 7; 2014: 10; 2015: 28; 2016: 9; 2017: 15; 2018: 12; 2019: 8; 2020: 11; 2021: 18; 2022: 22; 2023: 10; 2024: 18; 2025: 12; 2026: 1.
Where it’s cited
What people write
From a text search; it doesn’t yet tell recommending apart from just mentioning.
If so my favorites from this year would be Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, and Armada by Ernest Cline.
Hacker News · 2015 · in “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” · see comment ↗
That said, I finished Snow Crash on the trip, and it was a great book.
Hacker News · 2013 · in “The Best Books I Read in 2013” · see comment ↗
I read Snow Crash for the first time last month, and it instantly became one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Hacker News · 2025 · see comment ↗