The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News this week.
1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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2. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)
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3. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages
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4. Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-Step Projects
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5. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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6. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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7. Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2: Build interactive 3D applications with JavaScript and WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0), 2nd Edition
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8. Ringtone: Exploring the Rise and Fall of Nokia in Mobile Phones
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9. Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
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10. The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises
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11. Making Things Move Diy Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
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12. The Mathematical Experience
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13. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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14. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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15. Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
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16. Auto Mechanics Fundamentals (How and Why of the Design, Construction and Operation of Automotive Units)
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17. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps
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18. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
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19. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
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20. Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press)
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21. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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22. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
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23. A Cultural History of Physics
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24. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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25. Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)
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26. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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27. UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers
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28. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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29. Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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30. Auto Mechanics Fundamentals: How and Why of the Design, Construction, and Operation of Automotive Units
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31. PC Interrupts : A Programmer's Reference to BIOS, DOS, and Third-Party Calls
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32. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
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33. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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34. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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35. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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36. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory In Practice (O'reilly))
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37. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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38. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Twelfth Edition)
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39. Wealth, Poverty and Politics
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40. Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node
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41. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
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42. How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants
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43. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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44. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
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45. Beautiful Code
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46. The Three-Body Problem
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47. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
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48. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk
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49. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
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