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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 19, 2016 - Dec 26, 2016

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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

1. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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Android UI Design with XML: Tutorial Book cover

2. Android UI Design with XML: Tutorial Book

by Mr Camilus Raynaldo

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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

3. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Code cover

4. Code

by Charles Petzold

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters cover

5. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman

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Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing cover

6. Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

by Kai Hwang, Fayé Alayé Briggs

Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program cover

7. Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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Beautiful Code cover

8. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code cover

9. p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code

by Sue Armstrong

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships cover

10. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

11. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT) cover

12. Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT OF PRINT)

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist cover

13. When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist

by Paul Kalanithi

Practical Signal Processing cover

14. Practical Signal Processing

by Mark Owen

Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer cover

15. Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

by Peter Wright

Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing, The cover

16. Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing, The

by Richard G. Lyons, D. Lee Fugal

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies cover

17. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee

Making Games for the Atari 2600 (8bitworkshop) cover

18. Making Games for the Atari 2600 (8bitworkshop)

by Steven Hugg

Lady of Mazes cover

19. Lady of Mazes

by Karl Schroeder

Understanding Digital Signal Processing cover

20. Understanding Digital Signal Processing

by Richard G. Lyons

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

21. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Science of Cooking cover

22. The Science of Cooking

by Peter Barham

Existence cover

23. Existence

by David Brin

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What is hardcore data science--in practice? cover

24. What is hardcore data science--in practice?

Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well cover

25. Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well

by Danny Oppenheimer, Mike Edwards

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

26. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) cover

27. Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Daniel J. Siegel MD

The Language Complexity Game (Artificial Intelligence) cover

28. The Language Complexity Game (Artificial Intelligence)

by Eric Sven Ristad

Site Reliability Engineering cover

29. Site Reliability Engineering

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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream cover

30. The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

by Tyler Cowen

Wyrm cover

31. Wyrm

by Mark Fabi

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence cover

32. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

by Richard W. Wrangham, Dale Peterson

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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise cover

33. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson

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Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making cover

34. Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making

by Adam Harper

The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead cover

35. The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead

by Frank J. Tipler

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

36. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen

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The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9) cover

37. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 - The Phenomenon of Life (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol. 9)

by Christopher Alexander

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

38. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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Dark Matter: A Novel cover

39. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Dreamland cover

40. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking cover

41. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett

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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 cover

42. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350

by Robert Bartlett

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton's Journey of Souls, 1) cover

43. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton's Journey of Souls, 1)

by Michael Newton