Hacker News Books for 2017

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Hacker News Books for 2017

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2017.

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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web cover

1. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee

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Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

2. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen

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Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python cover

3. Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python

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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

4. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by John F. Hughes

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Zoned Out cover

6. Zoned Out

by Jonathan C. Levine

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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective cover

7. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang

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The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer cover

8. The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer

by Robin Williams

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The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition cover

9. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition

by Robin Williams

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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician cover

10. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

by Morris Kline

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

11. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

12. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition) cover

13. Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)

by Thomas L. Floyd

The World Beyond Your Head cover

14. The World Beyond Your Head

by Matthew B. Crawford

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way cover

15. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way

by Michael E. Gerber

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RESTful Web Clients cover

16. RESTful Web Clients

by Mike Amundsen

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Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation cover

17. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

18. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D

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Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

19. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages cover

20. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

by Robert Harper

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Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

21. Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Serge Lang

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Elements of Programming cover

22. Elements of Programming

by Alexander A. Stepanov, Paul McJones

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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

23. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems cover

24. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron

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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

25. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition cover

26. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner

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Radar - O’Reilly cover

27. Radar - O’Reilly

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Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know cover

28. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

29. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine

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Make: Analog Synthesizers cover

30. Make: Analog Synthesizers

by Ray Wilson (Electronics engineer)

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Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

31. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin

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Programming Rust cover

32. Programming Rust

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. s. Tindall

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

33. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

34. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

35. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau

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Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism cover

36. Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism

by Peter Barnes

Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction cover

37. Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction

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Getting Started in Electronics cover

38. Getting Started in Electronics

by Forrest M. Mims

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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld cover

39. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny

Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC cover

40. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC

by Peter Norton, John Socha

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

41. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition cover

42. Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition

by Eliot Coleman

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Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication) cover

43. Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication)

by Conseil de l'Europe,

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

44. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

45. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

46. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices cover

47. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

by George Varghese

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Learning Swift, 2nd Edition cover

48. Learning Swift, 2nd Edition

Learning Swift cover

49. Learning Swift

by Andrew J. Wagner

Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists cover

50. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci

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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution cover

51. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

52. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski

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Flask Web Development cover

53. Flask Web Development

by Miguel Grinberg

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

54. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

55. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

56. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

57. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

58. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

59. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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Algorithms (4th Edition) cover

60. Algorithms (4th Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why cover

61. The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why

by Arthur Benjamin

SVG Animations cover

62. SVG Animations

by Hayden John Kane

How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants cover

63. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

by David Rees

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Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure cover

64. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure

by Transnational College of Lex

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The Art of Electronics cover

65. The Art of Electronics

by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

66. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

67. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error cover

68. The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

by Sidney Dekker

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Counterexamples in Analysis cover

69. Counterexamples in Analysis

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow cover

70. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

by Aurélien Géron

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Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality cover

71. Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

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Behind Human Error cover

72. Behind Human Error

by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook

Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents) cover

73. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

by Floyd E. Toole

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

74. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials) cover

75. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) cover

76. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1)

Python for Data Analysis cover

77. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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78. "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler

by J. R. Weil

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

79. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

80. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record cover

81. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

by Leslie Kean

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

82. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us cover

83. The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Hack and HHVM cover

84. Hack and HHVM

by Owen Yamauchi

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Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs cover

85. Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs

by Michael Lucas, Allan Jude

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS cover

86. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

by Michael Warren Lucas, Allan Jude

Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life cover

87. Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life

by J. D. Meier

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Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition cover

88. Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition

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Think Stats cover

89. Think Stats

by Allen B. Downey

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

90. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

91. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

92. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

93. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory cover

94. Relativity: The Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein

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Concurrency in Go cover

95. Concurrency in Go

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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The Kerbal Player's Guide cover

96. The Kerbal Player's Guide

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An Island to Oneself cover

97. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism cover

98. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane

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Equality and Achievement: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (2nd Edition) cover

99. Equality and Achievement: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (2nd Edition)

by Cornelius H. Riordan

21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

100. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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