Hacker News Books for 2024

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Hacker News Books for 2024

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2024.

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

101. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

102. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

103. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

104. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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RESTful Web Clients cover

105. RESTful Web Clients

by Mike Amundsen

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Software Engineering at Google cover

106. Software Engineering at Google

by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright

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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition cover

107. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

by Alice Miller

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Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing cover

108. Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing

by Dor Mullen

The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

109. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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Understanding Software Dynamics cover

110. Understanding Software Dynamics

by Richard Sites

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Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control cover

111. Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control

by Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz

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Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials cover

112. Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology) cover

113. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

by Peter D. Norton

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The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence cover

114. The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence

by J. Marshall Unger

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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

115. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition cover

116. Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg

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Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life – A Harvard Professor's Guide to Innovation and Unconventional Success cover

117. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life – A Harvard Professor's Guide to Innovation and Unconventional Success

by Francesca Gino

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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch cover

118. The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

by Thomas Thwaites

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Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company cover

119. Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company

by Doug Dayton

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Learning Helm cover

120. Learning Helm

by Matt Butcher, Matt Farina, Josh Dolitsky

Head First PHP & MySQL cover

121. Head First PHP & MySQL

by Lynn Beighley

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War cover

122. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

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Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core cover

123. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

by Jonathan Levin

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

124. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future cover

125. Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

by John Willis

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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) cover

126. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book) cover

127. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book)

by Babette Rothschild

A Gentle Introduction to Optimization cover

128. A Gentle Introduction to Optimization

by B. Guenin, J. Könemann, L. Tunçel

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Have Fun at Work cover

129. Have Fun at Work

by William L. Livingston

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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing cover

130. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison

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States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics) cover

131. States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics)

by David L. Goodstein

High Performance Web Sites cover

132. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World cover

133. Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

by Patricia Crone

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大図解九龍城 cover

134. 大図解九龍城

by 可児弘明

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

135. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

136. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation cover

137. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions cover

138. Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

by Mark Godsey

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong cover

139. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

by Brandon L. Garrett

You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent cover

140. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent

by Justin Brooks

Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack cover

141. Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

by W. T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch

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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration cover

142. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

143. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity cover

144. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber, David Wengrow

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Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang cover

145. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

by Richard O'Kane

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization cover

146. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

by Ed Conway

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone cover

147. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

by Brian McCullough

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win cover

148. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

by Steve Blank

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Tidy First? cover

149. Tidy First?

by Kent Beck

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C++ Concurrency in Action cover

150. C++ Concurrency in Action

by Anthony Williams

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SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition cover

151. SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition

by Alice Zhao

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The Dalai Lama Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from His Holiness (Little Book. Big Idea.) cover

152. The Dalai Lama Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from His Holiness (Little Book. Big Idea.)

by Travis Hellstrom

The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) cover

153. The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)

by Carl Christian Erhard Schmid

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit cover

154. The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

by Marina Krakovsky

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

155. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series) cover

156. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series)

by Aristotle, Joe Sachs

Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale cover

157. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale

by Rick Page

Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) cover

158. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)

by Pete Jordan

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

159. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual cover

160. Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

The Great Wall Street Scandal cover

161. The Great Wall Street Scandal

by Raymond L. Dirks, Leonard Gross

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future cover

162. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health cover

164. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health

by Robert H. Lustig

Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch cover

165. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

by Nora Sandler

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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw cover

166. One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

by Witold Rybczynski

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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas cover

167. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

by Roger Crowley

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C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide: First Edition cover

168. C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide: First Edition

by Nicolai M. Josuttis

To Mock a Mockingbird cover

169. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care cover

170. Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care

by Harry Edward Frech (III)

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Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card cover

171. Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card

by Frederick Hillier

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

172. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Motel of the Mysteries cover

173. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms cover

174. Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms

by Marco Tranquillin, Valliappa Lakshmanan, Firat Tekiner

On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

175. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition cover

176. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition

by John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones, Mike Jones

Electrostatics: Exploring, Controlling and Using Static Electricity/Includes the Dirod Manual cover

177. Electrostatics: Exploring, Controlling and Using Static Electricity/Includes the Dirod Manual

by Arthur Dearth Moore

A short history of the O'Reilly animals cover

178. A short history of the O'Reilly animals

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High Output Management cover

179. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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

180. 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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Victory: An Island Tale (Penguin Classics) cover

181. Victory: An Island Tale (Penguin Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Mission Of Gravity cover

182. Mission Of Gravity

by Hal Clement

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism cover

183. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

by Clara E. Mattei

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Database Design and Implementation: Second Edition (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) cover

184. Database Design and Implementation: Second Edition (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

by Edward Sciore

Fluent C cover

185. Fluent C

by Rebecca Riordan

Loners cover

186. Loners

by Sula Wolff

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Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition cover

187. Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition

by Marc J. Rochkind

Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media cover

188. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media

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Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods cover

189. Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods

by Katherine Liang Chew

Being And Event cover

190. Being And Event

by Alain Badiou

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

191. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science) cover

192. Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science)

by Peter William Frey

The Dark cover

193. The Dark

by Lemony Snicket

Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

194. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past cover

195. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

by David Reich

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

196. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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Finite and Infinite Games cover

197. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat cover

198. Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

by Harvey Levenstein

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More cover

199. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer, MD

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between cover

200. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

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