Hacker News Books for 2019

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Hacker News Books for 2019

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2019.

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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

501. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Measure What Matters: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth cover

502. Measure What Matters: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

by John Doerr

Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy cover

503. Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy

by Bill Gertz

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions cover

504. Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

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Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon cover

505. Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

by Jim Paul

Stretching: Pocket Book Edition cover

506. Stretching: Pocket Book Edition

by Bob Anderson

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

507. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior cover

508. Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution cover

509. The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution

by Charles S. Cockell

Lean UX cover

510. Lean UX

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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

511. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz

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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action cover

512. Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action

by Mor Harchol-Balter

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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Classic Reprint) cover

513. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Classic Reprint)

by Harry M. Caudill

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

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

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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats cover

515. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

by Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio

Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices) cover

516. Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

by Karl Eugene Wiegers, Joy Beatty

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding cover

517. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Another Sort of Learning cover

518. Another Sort of Learning

by James V. Schall

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance cover

519. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

by Ron Chernow

Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue cover

520. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

by Ryan Holiday

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

521. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser

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Agency (The Jackpot Trilogy) cover

522. Agency (The Jackpot Trilogy)

by William Gibson

The Physics of Christianity cover

523. The Physics of Christianity

by Frank J. Tipler

Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more cover

524. Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more

by David H. Freedman

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The stars in their courses cover

525. The stars in their courses

by Isaac Asimov

The Computer - My Life cover

526. The Computer - My Life

by Konrad Zuse

A Factory of One cover

527. A Factory of One

by Daniel . Markovitz

Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science cover

528. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science

by Carey Gillam

Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art, Second Edition (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series) cover

529. Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art, Second Edition (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)

by Robert J. Lang

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

530. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Cooper, Alan

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

531. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

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MEDICAL NIHILISM cover

532. MEDICAL NIHILISM

by Jacob Stegenga

Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall / CRC Texts in Statistical Science) cover

533. Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall / CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, Donald B. Rubin

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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things cover

534. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis cover

535. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

Principles Of Fusion Energy: An Introduction To Fusion Energy For Students Of Science And Engineering cover

536. Principles Of Fusion Energy: An Introduction To Fusion Energy For Students Of Science And Engineering

by A. A. Harms, Klaus F.. Schoepf, David Ross Kingdon

Metaphors We Live By cover

537. Metaphors We Live By

by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

538. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design cover

539. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

by Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores

Cracking the ACT with 6 Practice Tests, 2019 Edition: 6 Practice Tests + Content Review + Strategies (College Test Preparation) cover

540. Cracking the ACT with 6 Practice Tests, 2019 Edition: 6 Practice Tests + Content Review + Strategies (College Test Preparation)

by Princeton Review

How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles cover

541. How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles

by Simon Lovell

Gambling Scams: How They Work, How to Detect Them, How to Protect Yourself cover

542. Gambling Scams: How They Work, How to Detect Them, How to Protect Yourself

by Darwin Ortiz

Gilgamesh the King cover

543. Gilgamesh the King

by Robert Silverberg

Salt: A World History cover

544. Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History cover

545. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

by Sidney W. Mintz

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

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

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition cover

547. Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition

Python Data Science Handbook cover

548. Python Data Science Handbook

by Jacob T. Vanderplas

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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb cover

549. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis

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

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

by Betty Edwards

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On Solitude (Penguin Great Ideas) cover

551. On Solitude (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Michel de Montaigne

The Peter Principle: Say NO! to incompetence at work (Management & Marketing) cover

552. The Peter Principle: Say NO! to incompetence at work (Management & Marketing)

by 50minutes

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong cover

553. The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

by Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull

Numbers In The Dark cover

554. Numbers In The Dark

by Italo Calvino

Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition cover

555. Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley cover

556. More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley

by Jim Dwyer

Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era cover

557. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

by Tomas De Yriarte, J. B. C. Grainville, Honore F. M. Langle

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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

558. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf

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Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition cover

559. Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition

by Noah Feldman

Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia cover

560. Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia

by George Crane

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones cover

561. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web cover

562. The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust cover

563. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction cover

564. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

by David Quammen

Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad cover

565. Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad

by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream cover

566. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

by Hunter S. Thompson

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

567. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning cover

568. Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning

by Joel Dyer

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Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow cover

569. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

by Sandy Skotnicki, Christopher Shulgan

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A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic cover

570. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

by Om Swami

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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity cover

571. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

by Avram Joel Spolsky

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Programming a personal computer cover

572. Programming a personal computer

by Per Brinch Hansen

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness cover

573. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

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Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results cover

574. Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results

by Lawrence Susskind, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement cover

575. The Consensus Building Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement

by Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnen, Jennifer Thomas-Larmer

Home Coffee Roasting, Revised, Updated Edition: Romance and Revival cover

576. Home Coffee Roasting, Revised, Updated Edition: Romance and Revival

by Kenneth Davids

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law cover

577. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

by Ward Farnsworth

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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy cover

578. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

by Mariana Mazzucato

How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization cover

579. How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization

by Jeffrey J. Fox

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City cover

580. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome cover

581. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey

Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China cover

582. Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

by Alec Ash

Deep Learning with Python cover

583. Deep Learning with Python

by Francois Chollet

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Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads cover

584. Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads

by Gary Greenberg, Jeannie Hayden

SQL Antipatterns cover

585. SQL Antipatterns

by Bill Karwin

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

586. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World cover

587. The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

by Steven L. Kent

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Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs cover

588. Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs

by Jon Koomey

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Machinery's Handbook: Toolbox cover

589. Machinery's Handbook: Toolbox

by Erik Oberg, Franklin D. Jones, Holbrook Lynedon Horton, Henry H. Ryffel

The CASE FOR MARS cover

590. The CASE FOR MARS

by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner

Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company cover

591. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company

by Michael Shawn Malone

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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

592. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff

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The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders cover

593. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders

by Connie Bruck

Riemannian Geometry cover

594. Riemannian Geometry

by Manfredo P. do Carmo

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs cover

595. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

by Ken Kocienda

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

596. Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Jacob Eisenstein

The Fifth Risk cover

597. The Fifth Risk

by Michael Lewis

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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt cover

598. The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

by Robert I. Sutton

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

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

by George Varghese

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See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

600. See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Dominic Sweetman

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