Hacker News Reader

Check out the quant.stackexchange.com site. There's a bunch of similar questions there with good answers: http://quant.stackexchange.com/search?q=books

Also, http://quant.ly/ is essentially Hacker News for quants and often has interesting articles.

Thanks, I did not realize this SE existed!

So is HN forum software? or did they just make a lookalike?

The arc http://arclanguage.org/ source code for the site is available.