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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 4, 2014 - Aug 11, 2014

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Blindsight cover

1. Blindsight

by Peter Watts

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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge cover

2. The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

by Vernor Vinge

Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga) cover

3. Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga)

by Peter F. Hamilton

Baby Wars: The Dynamics of Family Conflict cover

4. Baby Wars: The Dynamics of Family Conflict

by Robin Baker, Elizabeth Oram

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 cover

5. The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2

by Tom Limoncelli, Thomas Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan

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C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition cover

6. C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition

by Kim N. King

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RESTful Web APIs cover

7. RESTful Web APIs

by Leonard Richardson, Michael Amundsen, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby

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Building an Optimizing Compiler cover

8. Building an Optimizing Compiler

by Robert Morgan

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

9. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris

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Uncommon Carriers cover

10. Uncommon Carriers

by John McPhee

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life cover

11. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

by Nick Lane

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

12. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean cover

13. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

by David Gelernter

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

14. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology cover

15. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

by Bruce Sterling

Neural Networks: A Systematic Introduction cover

16. Neural Networks: A Systematic Introduction

by Raul Rojas

Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference cover

17. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference

by Judea Pearl

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus cover

18. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

by Richard Preston

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