Hacker News Books

Years > 2014 > Week 15

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 7, 2014 - Apr 14, 2014

Join 4,200+ subscribers and get an email every Thursday with the best books being discussed on Hacker News...

Showing 1 - 53 of 53 books

Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof (Wooden Books) cover

1. Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof (Wooden Books)

by Burkard Polster

The Elements of Typographic Style cover

2. The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

Read 4 comments

Flask Web Development cover

3. Flask Web Development

by Miguel Grinberg

Read 3 comments

Programming Collective Intelligence cover

4. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

Read 36 comments

Windows Internals, Part 2 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference) cover

5. Windows Internals, Part 2 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference)

by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu

Windows Internals, Part 1 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference) cover

6. Windows Internals, Part 1 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference)

by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu

Read 2 comments

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

7. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

Read 9 comments

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

8. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

Read 18 comments

Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning cover

9. Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning

by Ellen Monk, Bret Wagner

Enterprise Resource Planning cover

10. Enterprise Resource Planning

by Bret Wagner, Ellen Monk

Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics) (International Series in Pure & Applied Mathematics) cover

11. Principles of Mathematical Analysis (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics) (International Series in Pure & Applied Mathematics)

by Walter Rudin

Read 2 comments

Topology (2nd Edition) cover

12. Topology (2nd Edition)

by James R. Munkres

Read 2 comments

Algebra (2nd Edition) cover

13. Algebra (2nd Edition)

by Michael Artin

Read 2 comments

Programming in Haskell cover

14. Programming in Haskell

by Graham Hutton

Read 6 comments

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

15. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

Read 9 comments

Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications cover

16. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

by Kenneth H. Rosen

Read 3 comments

The Nature of Computation cover

17. The Nature of Computation

by Cristopher Moore, Stephan Mertens

Read 3 comments

All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

18. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

by Thomas A. Garrity

Read 6 comments

The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul cover

19. The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul

by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel Clement Dennett

Read 4 comments

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity cover

20. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace

Godel's Theorem Simplified cover

21. Godel's Theorem Simplified

by Harry J. Gensler

Read 4 comments

Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers cover

22. Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers

by Lancelot Hogben

Read 4 comments

The Ants cover

23. The Ants

by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets cover

24. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets

by Peter Schweizer

Read 2 comments

The Society of Mind cover

25. The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

Read 5 comments

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

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

by Tim Wu

Read 19 comments

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

27. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

Read 10 comments

Self-Organization in Biological Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity) cover

28. Self-Organization in Biological Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

by Scott Camazine

Read 2 comments

Practical Cryptography cover

29. Practical Cryptography

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

30. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Read 17 comments

Man and the Computer cover

31. Man and the Computer

by John G. Kemeny

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome cover

32. All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

by Kathy Hoopmann

Service Agreements for SMB Consultants - A Quick Start Guide for Managed Services cover

33. Service Agreements for SMB Consultants - A Quick Start Guide for Managed Services

by Karl Palachuk

Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements cover

34. Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements

by Stephen Fishman

Read 4 comments

The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business cover

35. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business

by Duff McDonald

Inside the AS/400: Second Edition cover

36. Inside the AS/400: Second Edition

by Frank G. Soltis

Read 4 comments

Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) cover

37. Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)

by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

Read 3 comments

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

38. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

Read 8 comments

How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics cover

39. How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel

Read 4 comments

The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science cover

40. The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science

by A. K. Dewdney

Read 6 comments

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea cover

41. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

Read 4 comments

An Introduction to Analysis (4th Edition) cover

42. An Introduction to Analysis (4th Edition)

by W. R. Wade

Read 2 comments

Total Resistance cover

43. Total Resistance

by H. Von Dach

Read 3 comments

Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War 2 cover

44. Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War 2

by Stephen P. Halbrook

Barrow's Boys cover

45. Barrow's Boys

by Fergus Fleming

Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

46. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren

Read 15 comments

Self Defense Laws of All 50 States (2nd Edition) cover

47. Self Defense Laws of All 50 States (2nd Edition)

by James D. Vilos, Evan John Vilos

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

48. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

Read 26 comments

Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence) cover

49. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence)

by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa

Read 8 comments

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

50. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Read 9 comments

Future Shock cover

51. Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler

Walden cover

52. Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

Read 0 comments

Open: An Autobiography cover

53. Open: An Autobiography

by Andre Agassi