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2012
Hacker News Books for 2012
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2012.
Showing 101 - 200 of 433 books
101. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
Read 31 comments
102. The Big Short
by Michael M. Lewis
Read 9 comments
103. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
Read 2 comments
104. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition
by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
Read 5 comments
105. Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs
by David J. Nutt
Read 2 comments
106. Programming Clojure
by Stuart Dabbs Halloway, Aaron Bedra
Read 3 comments
107. No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
by Robert A. Glover
Read 2 comments
108. When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education
by Daniel T. Willingham
Read 1 comment
109. Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
Read 3 comments
110. Proofs from THE BOOK
by Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler
Read 3 comments
111. Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook: A Machiavellian Manifesto―Illustrated with Comic Strips for Bosses and Cubicle Dwellers
by Scott Adams
Read 1 comment
112. Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science
by John Langone, Bruce Stutz, Andrea Gianopoulos
Read 1 comment
113. Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data
Read 3 comments
114. Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Read 1 comment
115. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Read 5 comments
116. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Bruce Tate
Read 3 comments
117. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement
by Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson
Read 1 comment
118. Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform
by Diane Ravitch
Read 1 comment
119. Version Control with Git
Read 2 comments
120. Building Web Reputation Systems
by F. Randall Farmer
Read 5 comments
121. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Read 8 comments
122. The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
by Tibor Scitovsky
Read 1 comment
123. Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques: Regression, Classification, and Manifold Learning (Springer Texts in Statistics)
by Alan J. Izenman
Read 1 comment
124. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
by Ray Kurzweil
Read 2 comments
125. The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America
Read 1 comment
126. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
Read 10 comments
127. On Photography
by Susan Sontag
Read 2 comments
128. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
Read 16 comments
129. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node
Read 2 comments
130. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
by Rolf Potts
Read 1 comment
131. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Read 36 comments
132. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Read 4 comments
133. CouchDB: The Definitive Guide
Read 1 comment
134. Data Source Handbook
Read 1 comment
135. The Art of SEO
Read 1 comment
136. The Animator's Survival Kit
by Richard Williams
Read 2 comments
137. Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems
by Betty Vandenbosch
Read 1 comment
138. The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color
by Johannes Itten
Read 2 comments
139. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)
by Sandi Metz
Read 2 comments
140. Ivor Horton's Beginning Java: Java 7 Edition
by Ivor Horton
Read 1 comment
141. Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition
by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners
Read 2 comments
142. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
Read 18 comments
143. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
by Gregory Smith
Read 7 comments
144. Agile Data Science
Read 1 comment
145. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
by Steven Levy
Read 5 comments
146. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
by Daniel Coyle
Read 1 comment
147. Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)
by Mike Cohn
Read 3 comments
148. Beginning Sous Vide: Low Temperature Recipes and Techniques for Getting Started at Home
by Jason Logsdon
Read 1 comment
149. JavaScript Web Applications
Read 4 comments
150. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
Read 39 comments
151. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
by Beverly Engel
Read 1 comment
152. Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by Robin Baker
Read 1 comment
153. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
Read 2 comments
154. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
by Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare
Read 1 comment
155. The Ruby Programming Language
by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
Read 1 comment
156. Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems
by Miro Samek
Read 1 comment
157. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier
Read 27 comments
158. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security
by Daniel J. Solove
Read 3 comments
159. The World Economy
by Maddison Angus
Read 1 comment
160. Tog on Interface
by Bruce Tognazzini
Read 1 comment
161. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
Read 5 comments
162. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
Read 2 comments
163. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
Read 1 comment
164. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
Read 3 comments
165. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition
Read 8 comments
166. The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
by Daniel Gardner
Read 1 comment
167. Basketry: Webster's Timeline History, 7000BC - 2006
Read 1 comment
168. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
Read 15 comments
169. Statistics
by David Freedman
Read 2 comments
170. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
by Craig Larman
Read 1 comment
171. Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback)
by Jasper Becker
Read 1 comment
172. The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
by Annie Murphy Paul
Read 5 comments
173. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Read 22 comments
174. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Read 13 comments
175. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Read 4 comments
176. How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Read 1 comment
177. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Sen
Read 1 comment
178. Mr Nice: An Autobiography
by Howard Marks
Read 1 comment
179. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
Read 6 comments
180. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read 20 comments
181. Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
by Lisa Cron
Read 2 comments
182. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
by Subbu Allamaraju, Subrahmanyam Allamaraju
Read 5 comments
183. Way Things Work CD-ROM (Version 1.0--mac)
by Dorling Kindersley, Inc.
Read 1 comment
184. Royal Flush
by Scott Bartlett
Read 1 comment
185. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
by David R. Hanson
Read 16 comments
186. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
Read 2 comments
187. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
Read 10 comments
188. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution
by Brent Berlin, Paul Kay
Read 2 comments
189. Machine Dreams
by Philip Mirowski
Read 1 comment
190. Python for Data Analysis
Read 15 comments
191. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications
by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen
Read 1 comment
192. Building Web Applications with Erlang
Read 2 comments
193. 21st Century C
Read 11 comments
194. Machine Learning for Hackers
Read 4 comments
195. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel
Read 1 comment
196. C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, 4th Edition
Read 1 comment
197. Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
by Duncan J. Watts
Read 2 comments
198. All You Need to Know About On-line Information (".net" Guide)
by Eddy Robinson
Read 1 comment
199. Programming Windows Azure
Read 2 comments
200. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
Read 43 comments
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