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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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World cover

301. Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

by Arnold Lobel

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

302. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks) cover

303. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks)

by James C. Scott

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover

304. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

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Beginning NFC cover

305. Beginning NFC

by Don Coleman

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) cover

306. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)

by Christopher Columbus

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

307. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World cover

308. Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World

by Howard Ensign Evans

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

309. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) cover

310. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

by Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection cover

311. Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection

by Antero Alli

The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization cover

312. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Ray Tracing from the Ground Up cover

313. Ray Tracing from the Ground Up

by Kevin Suffern

Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine cover

314. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

by Scott Horton, Darryl Cooper

Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War: Prism of disaster (Geopolitical Economy) cover

315. Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War: Prism of disaster (Geopolitical Economy)

by Kees van der Pijl

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) cover

316. The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II cover

317. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

by Robert Kurson

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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media cover

318. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media

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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert: Chapter 9: How It All Begins Again - O'Reilly Media cover

319. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert: Chapter 9: How It All Begins Again - O'Reilly Media

Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12 cover

320. Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12

by Frank Luna

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics cover

321. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics

by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

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Basic Economics cover

322. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Hölderlin's Hymns

323. Hölderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" (Studies in Continental Thought)

by Martin Heidegger

The Portable Dorothy Parker cover

324. The Portable Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker (romancière).)

Serverless Development on AWS cover

325. Serverless Development on AWS

by Luke Hedger Sheen Brisals

Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them cover

326. Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them

by Garrett Sutton

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

327. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life cover

328. The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

by Eugenia Cheng

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Building Event-Driven Microservices cover

329. Building Event-Driven Microservices

by Adam Bellemare

Networking and Kubernetes cover

330. Networking and Kubernetes

by James Strong, Vallery Lancey

Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts cover

331. Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts

by Christopher M. Bishop, Hugh Bishop

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How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places cover

332. How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places

by FC

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) cover

333. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

by Peter Hopkirk

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A Gamelan Manual: A Player's Guide to the Central Javanese Gamelan cover

334. A Gamelan Manual: A Player's Guide to the Central Javanese Gamelan

by Richard Pickvance

The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World cover

335. The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

by Adam Gazzaley, Larry D. Rosen

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Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences cover

336. Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences

by Alfred Tarski

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates cover

337. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

by Rand Corporation

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Reliable software through composite design cover

338. Reliable software through composite design

by Glenford J. Myers

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Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook cover

339. Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream: The Art and Science of the Scoop: A Cookbook

by Dana Cree

What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II) cover

340. What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II)

RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture cover

341. RISC System/6000 PowerPC System Architecture

by Frank Levine, Steve Thurber

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short) cover

342. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)

by Ashley Shew

Definitive XML Schema, 2nd Edition cover

343. Definitive XML Schema, 2nd Edition

by Priscilla Walmsley

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

344. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation cover

345. Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation

by Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yukikaze cover

346. Yukikaze

by Chohei Kambayashi

Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns cover

347. Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns

by Patrick Chan

Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe cover

348. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe

by Martin Rees

Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

349. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

350. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W Kernighan

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The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise cover

351. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise

by Nathan L. Ensmenger

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Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties cover

352. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties

by Joe Celko

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

353. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich cover

354. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss

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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made cover

355. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

by Jason Schreier

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Bechamp or Pasteur? cover

356. Bechamp or Pasteur?

by Ethel D. Hume

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

357. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Command-Line Rust cover

358. Command-Line Rust

by Ken Youens-Clark

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When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Challenging Times (Process Self-reliance Series) cover

359. When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Challenging Times (Process Self-reliance Series)

by Gerard S. Doyle

Perl One-Liners cover

360. Perl One-Liners

by Peteris Krumins

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich cover

361. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

by Norman Ohler

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The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Gold Edition cover

362. The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Gold Edition

by S.M.G Szczepaniak

The Cosmic Calculator - Book 1: A Vedic Mathematics Course for Schools cover

363. The Cosmic Calculator - Book 1: A Vedic Mathematics Course for Schools

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure cover

364. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

365. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Intermediate Go Programming cover

366. Intermediate Go Programming

by John Graham-Cumming

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

367. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went cover

368. Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

by John Kenneth Galbraith

Making Embedded Systems cover

369. Making Embedded Systems

by Elecia White

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Mind Performance Hacks cover

370. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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Mind Hacks cover

371. Mind Hacks

by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb

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Mind Performance Hacks cover

372. Mind Performance Hacks

by Ron Hale-Evans

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition cover

373. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Patrick M. Lencioni

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Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults cover

374. Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults

by Jacques Vallee

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Processing Recursively Structured Data: A Generic Approach to Parsing and Transforming Data with a Recursive Structure, Illustrated by a Practical Implementation cover

375. Processing Recursively Structured Data: A Generic Approach to Parsing and Transforming Data with a Recursive Structure, Illustrated by a Practical Implementation

by Norbert Pfaffinger

Putin's Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia's Information War Against the World cover

376. Putin's Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia's Information War Against the World

by Jessikka Aro

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice cover

377. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder

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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City cover

378. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

by Antero Pietila

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland cover

379. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

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CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation (IEEE Press Series on Microelectronic Systems) cover

380. CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation (IEEE Press Series on Microelectronic Systems)

by R. Jacob Baker

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society cover

381. The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society

by Norval Morris, David J. Rothman

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Machine Learning Interviews cover

382. Machine Learning Interviews

by Susan Shu Chang

Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective - Updated Edition (Advances in Financial Engineering) cover

383. Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective - Updated Edition (Advances in Financial Engineering)

by Andrew W. Lo

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Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch cover

384. Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch

by Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro

Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

385. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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The American Challenge cover

386. The American Challenge

by Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) cover

387. Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

by Sebastian Raschka

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LLM Engineer's Handbook cover

388. LLM Engineer's Handbook

by PAUL. LABONNE IUSZTIN (MAXIME. VESA, ALEX.), Maxime Labonne, Alex Vesa

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Transformers for Machine Learning: A Deep Dive (Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition) cover

389. Transformers for Machine Learning: A Deep Dive (Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)

by Uday Kamath, Kenneth L. Graham, Wael Emara

Introduction to Transformers for NLP: With the Hugging Face Library and Models to Solve Problems cover

390. Introduction to Transformers for NLP: With the Hugging Face Library and Models to Solve Problems

by Shashank Mohan Jain

Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition cover

391. Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition

by Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, Thomas Wolf

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Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation cover

392. Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation

by Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst

Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: Explore Generative AI and Large Language Models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E 3 cover

393. Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: Explore Generative AI and Large Language Models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E 3

by DENIS. ROTHMAN

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Transformer, BERT, and GPT: Including ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering (MLI Generative AI Series) cover

394. Transformer, BERT, and GPT: Including ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering (MLI Generative AI Series)

by Oswald Campesato

Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models cover

395. Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models

by VALENTINA. ALTO

Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice cover

396. Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice

by Uday Kamath, Kevin Keenan, Garrett Somers, Sarah Sorenson

Traction cover

397. Traction

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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LLM Engineer's Handbook cover

398. LLM Engineer's Handbook

by PAUL. LABONNE IUSZTIN (MAXIME. VESA, ALEX.), Maxime Labonne, Alex Vesa

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Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes cover

399. Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes

by Jeff Carpenter, Patrick McFadin

Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution cover

400. Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution