Hacker News Books for 2021

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Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2021.

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The Americans: The Democratic Experience cover

301. The Americans: The Democratic Experience

by Daniel J. Boorstin

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) cover

302. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Eric H. Cline

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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief cover

303. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

by Clair Davies, Amber Davies

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Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind cover

304. Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind

by Dan Charnas

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Hack and HHVM cover

305. Hack and HHVM

by Owen Yamauchi

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', 3rd Edition cover

306. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', 3rd Edition

by Sidney Dekker

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man cover

307. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

by Norah Vincent

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Bioinformatics Programming Using Python cover

308. Bioinformatics Programming Using Python

by Mitchell L. Model

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics cover

309. Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

by James Tisdall

Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts cover

310. Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts

by Vladimir Arkhipov

Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics) cover

311. Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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The Art of Readable Code cover

312. The Art of Readable Code

by Dustin Boswell

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

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

by Dominic Sweetman

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Building an Anonymization Pipeline cover

314. Building an Anonymization Pipeline

by Luk Arbuckle, Khaled Emam

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

315. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne

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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time cover

316. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright

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Badass: Making Users Awesome cover

317. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

318. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

319. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer

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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

320. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous

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How China Escaped Shock Therapy (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy) cover

321. How China Escaped Shock Therapy (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)

by Isabella Weber

Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi cover

322. Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi

by Mai Hong

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Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs, Series Number 5) cover

323. Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs, Series Number 5)

by Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie

Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy cover

324. Translucent Databases 2Nd Edition: Confusion, Misdirection, Randomness, Sharing, Authentication And Steganography To Defend Privacy

by Peter Wayner

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The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time cover

325. The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time

by Marshall McLuhan

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Larry Wall cover

326. Larry Wall

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

327. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

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Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you've never heard of cover

328. Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you've never heard of

Principles: Life and Work cover

329. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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High Output Management cover

330. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life cover

331. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein

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

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

by Tim Wu

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The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications cover

333. The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

by Rick Battagline

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

334. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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The Elements of Graphing Data cover

335. The Elements of Graphing Data

by William S. Cleveland

Visualizing Data cover

336. Visualizing Data

by William S. Cleveland

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Perl Best Practices cover

337. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway

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Who cover

338. Who

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street

Should I Stay Or Go? : How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage cover

339. Should I Stay Or Go? : How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage

by Lee Raffel

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist cover

340. Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist

by Ramani S. Durvasula, Ph.D

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

341. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel

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Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future cover

342. Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future

by Moshe Arye Milevsky

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Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition cover

343. Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition

by Steven F. Lott

Seveneves: A Novel cover

344. Seveneves: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

Brain Computations: What and How cover

345. Brain Computations: What and How

by Edmund T. Rolls

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Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (Mathematics, Finance and Risk) cover

346. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (Mathematics, Finance and Risk)

by Álvaro Cartea, Sebastian Jaimungal, José Penalva

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

347. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic cover

348. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

by Sam Quinones

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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You cover

349. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo

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In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters cover

350. In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters

by Jon Larsen

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy cover

351. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton

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Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe cover

352. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

by Bernardo Kastrup

The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics cover

353. The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

by Steve Upstill

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Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa cover

354. Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa

by Kevin Taft

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos cover

355. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

356. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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How I Invest My Money: Finance experts reveal how they save, spend, and invest cover

357. How I Invest My Money: Finance experts reveal how they save, spend, and invest

by Brian Portnoy, Joshua Brown

Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World cover

358. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World

by George R. McGhee

Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1 cover

359. Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

360. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby cover

361. Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby

by Matthew Scarpino

The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab cover

362. The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab

by Carl Miller

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts cover

363. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani

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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad cover

364. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

by Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise cover

365. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson

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Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

366. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson

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Tragic Design cover

367. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond cover

368. Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

by Judith S. Beck

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

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

by James Clear

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A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living cover

370. A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living

by Kapil Gupta

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness cover

371. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

by Eric Jorgenson

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Benjamin Franklin cover

373. Benjamin Franklin

by Edmund Sears Morgan

The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics) cover

374. The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics)

by Benjamin Franklin

Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 cover

375. Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945

by Alfred Price

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library) cover

376. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Sydney Padua

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't cover

377. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

by Julia Galef

The Ashley Book of Knots cover

378. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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The Red Book (Philemon) cover

379. The Red Book (Philemon)

by Carl G. Jung

Creating Mind: How the Brain Works cover

380. Creating Mind: How the Brain Works

by John E. Dowling

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The New Turing Omnibus cover

381. The New Turing Omnibus

by A. K. Dewdney

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The Society of Mind cover

382. The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

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Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality cover

383. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

by Ronald L. Mallett, Bruce B. Henderson

The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (American Made Music Series) cover

384. The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (American Made Music Series)

by Peter C. Zimmerman

John Von Neumann Collected Works (6 Volume Set) cover

385. John Von Neumann Collected Works (6 Volume Set)

by A. H Taub

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

386. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

387. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse

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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) cover

388. Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

by George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy, Duncan Coombe

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage cover

390. Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage

by Trey Sunderland

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All cover

391. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger

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OSCON 2015: Video Compilation cover

392. OSCON 2015: Video Compilation

The Wisdom of Crowds cover

393. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

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Dreamland cover

394. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS: Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names cover

395. Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS: Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

by Mark Jeftovic

The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History cover

396. The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

by Ashley Rindsberg

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension cover

397. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker

Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies cover

398. Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

by Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

399. Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (Signet Classics) cover

400. Les Miserables (Signet Classics)

by Victor Hugo