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24 alternatives to Daemon

A computer program wreaks havoc on the world.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Daemon launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Hardware Hacker▲63
Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
2016 · nostarch.com · its alternatives →
2
Chaos Monkeys▲74
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Chaos Monkeys▲94
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Chaos Monkeys▲72
An exposé of life inside the tech bubble
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Small Demons▲62
A graph of every person, place, and object in every book
2014 · its alternatives →
6
Evil By Design▲62
Leverage human fallibility to create powerful UIs
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress▲75
A computer leads the lunar population in a revolution.
2016 · amazon.de · its alternatives →
8
Hackers▲75
Heroes of the computer revolution
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
Code▲76
The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
10
Software Takes Command▲63
A universal language through which the world speaks
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations▲63
Critical thoughts on the internet and its effects on society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
The Book of Bad Arguments▲88
Beautifully illustrated and free to read online!
2014 · bookofbadarguments.com · its alternatives →
13
Genostock: First Scroll▲77
In a future world, humanity shuns destructive technologies
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
BitGypsy▲68
Distributed network of hackers and designers (closed alpha)
2014 · bitgypsy.com · its alternatives →
15
The Devil's Data Dictionary▲60
An hysterical book making fun of big data
2016 · devilsdatadictionary.com · its alternatives →
16
Future Crimes▲62
A harrowing deep dive into the dark underbelly of tech
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
The Supermen▲66
Seymour Cray + technical wizards behind the supercomputer
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Humane Interface▲56
The book that explains why you really hate computers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Fever Reader▲73
A Feed Reader with A Brain
2014 · its alternatives →
20
Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous▲61
A short introduction to the Unix command line
2015 · learnenough.com · its alternatives →
21
Cyberstorm▲55
A full scale cyber attack against present-day New York
2016 · matthewmather.com · its alternatives →
22
Evil by Design▲68
Like Nir Eyal's "Hooked" but with more pictures, and evil.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Abomination▲59
"Game of Thrones by way of H.P. Lovecraft"
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
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Watchbird▲61
A warning about army drones and AI from 1953
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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