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

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

2. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing cover

3. Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing

by Kai Hwang, Fayé Alayé Briggs

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p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code cover

4. p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code

by Sue Armstrong

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

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

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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

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

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Practical Signal Processing cover

7. Practical Signal Processing

by Mark Owen

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Half Girlfriend cover

8. Half Girlfriend

by Chetan Bhagat

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

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

by Leil Lowndes

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Android UI Design with XML: Tutorial Book cover

10. Android UI Design with XML: Tutorial Book

by Mr Camilus Raynaldo

Mind's Eye cover

11. Mind's Eye

by Oliver Sacks

Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat cover

12. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

by Oliver Sacks

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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C cover

13. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier

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

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

by Peter Wright

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Man's Search for Meaning cover

16. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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When Breath Becomes Air cover

17. When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

18. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

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

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Lady of Mazes cover

19. Lady of Mazes

by Karl Schroeder

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

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

by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

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

21. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power

by Daniel Yergin

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win cover

22. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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The Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Essential Guide Series) cover

23. The Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Essential Guide Series)

by Richard G. Lyons, D. Lee Fugal

Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition) cover

24. Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition)

by Richard G. Lyons

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

25. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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

26. Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well (MIT Press)

by Danny Oppenheimer, Mike Edwards

Transfer of Learning, Volume .: Cognition and Instruction (Educational Psychology) cover

27. Transfer of Learning, Volume .: Cognition and Instruction (Educational Psychology)

by Robert E. Haskell

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The C Programming Language cover

28. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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The Science of Cooking cover

29. The Science of Cooking

by Peter Barham

The Language Complexity Game (Artificial Intelligence) cover

30. The Language Complexity Game (Artificial Intelligence)

by Eric Sven Ristad

Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human cover

31. Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human

by Daniel J. Siegel MD

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, Robert Pool

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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

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

35. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

36. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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Site Reliability Engineering cover

37. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

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Dark Matter: A Novel cover

38. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking cover

39. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett

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Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience cover

40. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

by Shaun Usher

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

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

by Robert Bartlett