Hacker News Books for 2015

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Hacker News Books for 2015

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2015.

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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable – An Epic 19th-Century Achievement that United America and Europe cover

201. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable – An Epic 19th-Century Achievement that United America and Europe

by John Steele Gordon

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

202. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis cover

203. AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

by William J. Brown

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Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) cover

204. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, Gregory G. Colomb

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

205. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

206. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D

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Applied Predictive Modeling cover

207. Applied Predictive Modeling

by Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

208. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting cover

209. Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting

by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

210. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record cover

211. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

by Leslie Kean

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Bioinformatics Data Skills cover

212. Bioinformatics Data Skills

by Vince Buffalo

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

213. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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High Performance Python cover

214. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick

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Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past cover

215. Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past

by Daniel L. Schacter, Joseph T. Coyle

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

216. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth cover

217. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth

by Jim Collins

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

218. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction cover

219. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

by Samir Okasha

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C cover

220. Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

by Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern

21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

221. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever cover

222. Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever

by Kathleen Sharp

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

223. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

224. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

225. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave cover

226. More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity cover

227. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity

by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult cover

228. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult

by Peter Levenda

New Religions and the Nazis cover

229. New Religions and the Nazis

by Karla O. Poewe

The Moral Lives of Animals cover

230. The Moral Lives of Animals

by Dale Peterson

Can Animals Be Moral? cover

231. Can Animals Be Moral?

by Mark Rowlands

Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism (Mit Press) cover

232. Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism (Mit Press)

by Eli Berman

On Intelligence cover

233. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking cover

234. The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François

Death March (2nd Edition) cover

235. Death March (2nd Edition)

by Edward Yourdon

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

236. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth cover

237. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch

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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The cover

238. Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

239. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Make: Analog Synthesizers cover

240. Make: Analog Synthesizers

by Charles Platt

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A New Kind of Science cover

241. A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

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Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks cover

242. Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks

by Ian Fieggen

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All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

243. All of Nonparametric Statistics (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Larry Wasserman

Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations cover

244. Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police, Examples and Explanations

by Robert M. Bloom, Mark S. Brodin

Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants cover

245. Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

by John Drury Clark

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

246. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Engineering: A Compiler cover

247. Engineering: A Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper

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The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) cover

248. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)

by Joseph Tainter

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Introducing Elixir cover

249. Introducing Elixir

by Simon St Laurent, J. David Eisenberg

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Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression cover

250. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu

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The Wittgenstein Reader (Wiley Blackwell Readers) cover

251. The Wittgenstein Reader (Wiley Blackwell Readers)

by Sir Anthony Kenny

Programming Computer Vision with Python cover

252. Programming Computer Vision with Python

by Jan Erik, Jan Erik Solem

Functional JavaScript cover

253. Functional JavaScript

by Michael Fogus

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Programmer's Guide to Drupal cover

254. Programmer's Guide to Drupal

by Jennifer Hodgdon

Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems cover

255. Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems

by L. Randall Wray

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Adventures of a Mathematician cover

256. Adventures of a Mathematician

by S. M. Ulam, Stanislaw M. Ulam

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

257. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures cover

258. You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures

by Kyle Simpson

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead cover

259. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown

Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux cover

260. Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux

by Jeff Duntemann

Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action cover

261. Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action

by Joan N. Vickers

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power cover

262. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

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Understanding Digital Signal Processing cover

263. Understanding Digital Signal Processing

by Richard G. Lyons

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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning cover

264. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

by René Girard

What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures cover

265. What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures

by Frank Gallinelli

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

266. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

267. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

268. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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The Wisdom of Crowds cover

269. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

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Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point cover

270. Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition cover

271. The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition

by Robert Bringhurst

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Learning From Data cover

272. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

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C++ Primer (5th Edition) cover

273. C++ Primer (5th Edition)

by Stanley B. Lippman

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

274. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I cover

275. Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I

by Danzig Baldaev, Sergei Vasiliev

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers cover

276. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

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Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

277. Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)

by Paolo Aluffi

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Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak) cover

278. Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak)

by Michael Spivak

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Structural Physics of Nuclear Fusion: With BSM-SG Atomic Models cover

279. Structural Physics of Nuclear Fusion: With BSM-SG Atomic Models

by Stoyan Sarg

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

280. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Why Rust? cover

281. Why Rust?

by Jim Blandy

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The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications) cover

282. The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications)

by James Binney, J.J. Binney, N. J. Dowrick, A. J. Fisher, M. E. J. Newman, N.J. Dowrick, A.J. Fisher, M.E.J. Newman, J. J. Binney

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Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs (The Pragmatic Programmers) cover

283. Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs (The Pragmatic Programmers)

by Adam Tornhill

Die Tradition des lyrischen Dramas von Musset bis Hofmannsthal (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition) cover

284. Die Tradition des lyrischen Dramas von Musset bis Hofmannsthal (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition)

by Evelyn Schels

Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) cover

285. Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

by Alexander Rosenberg

Philosophy of Science: Volume 1, From Problem to Theory (History of Ideas Series) cover

286. Philosophy of Science: Volume 1, From Problem to Theory (History of Ideas Series)

by Mario Bunge

Philosophy of Science: Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification (Science and Technology Studies) cover

287. Philosophy of Science: Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification (Science and Technology Studies)

by Mario Bunge

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition cover

288. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

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The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment cover

289. The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

by Guy Spier

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us cover

290. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

by Michael Moss

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Laws of Media: The New Science cover

291. Laws of Media: The New Science

by Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan

The Gutenberg Galaxy cover

292. The Gutenberg Galaxy

by Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

293. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology cover

294. Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

by Helge Kragh

Britain's War Machine cover

295. Britain's War Machine

by David Edgerton

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan cover

296. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan

by John K. Kruschke

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

297. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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

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

by G. Pascal Zachary

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

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

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

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

300. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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