Years > 2016 > Week 8

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Feb 22, 2016 - Feb 29, 2016

Join 4,200+ subscribers and get an email every Thursday with the best books being discussed on Hacker News...

Showing 1 - 38 of 38 books
The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (War and Peace Library) cover

1. The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (War and Peace Library)

by Peter Dale Scott
Read 1 comment
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing cover

2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

by Marie Kondo
Read 5 comments
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

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

by Harvey Silverglate
Read 70 comments
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

4. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner
Read 19 comments
Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist cover

5. Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist

by Om P. Malik
Read 4 comments
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

6. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu
Read 19 comments
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else cover

7. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

by Hernando De Soto
Read 5 comments
Program Generators with XML and Java cover

8. Program Generators with XML and Java

by J. Craig Cleaveland
Read 4 comments
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

9. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Read 17 comments
Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 cover

10. Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983

by Severo M. Ornstein
Read 3 comments
Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) cover

11. Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

by Joseph A. November
Read 1 comment
Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

12. Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Terence Parr
Read 5 comments
It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions cover

13. It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions

by Michael Barton
Read 4 comments
The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist cover

14. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
Read 8 comments
Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir cover

15. Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

by Bryan Burrough
Read 1 comment
Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity cover

16. Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark
Read 10 comments
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives cover

17. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Read 4 comments
The Day After World War III cover

18. The Day After World War III

by Edward Zuckerman
Read 2 comments
Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English cover

19. Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English

by Anna Wierzbicka
Read 1 comment
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality cover

20. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

by Richard Panek
Read 1 comment
Design Theory, Second Edition (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) cover

21. Design Theory, Second Edition (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)

by Charles C. Lindner, Christopher Andrew Rodger
Read 1 comment
Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems cover

22. Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

by Nathan Marz, James Warren
Read 2 comments
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

23. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
Read 35 comments
Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs) cover

24. Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs)

by Alvin E. Roth, Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor
Read 3 comments
The Stable Marriage Problem: Structure and Algorithms (Foundations of Computing) cover

25. The Stable Marriage Problem: Structure and Algorithms (Foundations of Computing)

by Dan Gusfield
Read 2 comments
The Computer Music Tutorial (MIT Press) cover

26. The Computer Music Tutorial (MIT Press)

by Curtis Roads
Read 2 comments
Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

27. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg
Read 9 comments
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building cover

28. The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building

by David J. Peterson
Read 3 comments
Aurora cover

29. Aurora

by Kim Stanley Robinson
Read 1 comment
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness cover

30. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Read 4 comments
The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes cover

31. The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes

by Stephen Holmes, Cass R. Sunstein
Read 1 comment
Book of Military Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries) cover

32. Book of Military Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries)

by David Twiston Davies
Read 2 comments
Object-Oriented Programming in COMMON LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS cover

33. Object-Oriented Programming in COMMON LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS

by Sonya E. Keene, Dan Gerson
Read 2 comments
The Universe in a Helium Droplet (International Series of Monographs on Physics) cover

34. The Universe in a Helium Droplet (International Series of Monographs on Physics)

by Grigory E. Volovik
Read 1 comment
Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons cover

35. Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons

by J. Peter Rothe
Read 2 comments
The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science) cover

36. The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

by John L. Gustafson
Read 7 comments
Lightweight Django cover

37. Lightweight Django

by Julia Elman, Mark Lavin
Read 4 comments
Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era cover

38. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Read 5 comments