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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 3, 2014 - Feb 10, 2014

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

1. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters cover

2. Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

3. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Microsoft in the Mirror: Nineteen Insiders Reflect on the Experience cover

4. Microsoft in the Mirror: Nineteen Insiders Reflect on the Experience

by Karin Carter

Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America cover

5. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

6. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior cover

7. The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior

by Craig Nakken

A Software Architecture Primer cover

8. A Software Architecture Primer

by John Reekie, Rohan McAdam, Rohan James McAdam

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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing cover

9. The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

by John Perry

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration cover

10. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design cover

11. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

by Charles Montgomery

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time cover

12. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck

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Mobile 3D Graphics: with OpenGL ES and M3G (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

13. Mobile 3D Graphics: with OpenGL ES and M3G (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Ville Miettinen, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala

The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

14. The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Roy Singham

Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition cover

15. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition

by Keith Daniel Cooper, Linda Torczon

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The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) cover

16. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

by Sheldon Stern

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Live From Downing Street cover

17. Live From Downing Street

by Nick Robinson

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking cover

18. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

by Christopher Hadnagy

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Feynman Lectures On Computation cover

19. Feynman Lectures On Computation

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Siddhartha cover

20. Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly cover

21. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff

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Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts cover

22. Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

by Dan Lewis

Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There cover

23. Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There

by Andrea Waltz, Richard Fenton

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

24. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

by John W. Foreman

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide cover

25. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

by David Flanagan

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This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount cover

26. This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount

by Jay Weiner

Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting cover

27. Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting

by Donald Saari

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) cover

28. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

29. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Basic Geometry of Voting cover

30. Basic Geometry of Voting

by Donald G. Saari

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy cover

31. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

by Roberto Monaco