# Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier

4 Hacker News commenters recommended Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a valuable, rarely discussed book by Bruce Schneier, and as a human-scale game theory primer.

## Why people recommend it

- Valuable and rarely discussed (1 comments): "a valuable and yet rarely discussed book by Bruce Schneier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989832))
- Human-scale game theory primer (1 comments): "For a better applicable human scale game theory primer, check out Bruce Schneier's" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623359))
- Looks very interesting (1 comments): "This looks very interesting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992620))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cuckoo-s-egg.md): 40 recommend
- [Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amusing-ourselves-to-death.md): 36 recommend
- [The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/anxious-generation.md): 24 recommend
- [Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullshit-jobs.md): 20 recommend
- [Enshittification by Cory Doctorow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enshittification.md): 19 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118643607?tag=YOURTAG-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/YOURID/9781118643600) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier", https://hackerapproved.com/p/liars-and-outliers/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).