Hacker News Books for 2017

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Hacker News Books for 2017

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2017.

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man cover

201. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

202. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Linux Kernel Development cover

203. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love

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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters cover

204. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters

by B.R. Myers

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

205. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

206. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition cover

207. Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition

by Mike McShaffry, David Graham

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Learning OpenCV cover

208. Learning OpenCV

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

209. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

210. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis

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Military Nanotechnology (Contemporary Security Studies) cover

211. Military Nanotechnology (Contemporary Security Studies)

by Jürgen Altmann

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Learning SQL cover

212. Learning SQL

by Alan Beaulieu

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition) cover

213. Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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2016 Bots year in review cover

214. 2016 Bots year in review

Head First Networking: A Brain-Friendly Guide cover

215. Head First Networking: A Brain-Friendly Guide

by Al Anderson, Ryan Benedetti

Calculus For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle)) cover

216. Calculus For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))

by Mark Ryan

A Whirlwind Tour of Python cover

217. A Whirlwind Tour of Python

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OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection cover

218. OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection

by Jim Rubens, James M. Rubens

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

219. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series) cover

220. Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness (Cognitive Science Series)

by Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder cover

221. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

by Mr. Peter Zeihan

War of Art, The cover

222. War of Art, The

by Steven Pressfield

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The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works cover

223. The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works

by Eric G. Falkenstein

Say Good Night To Insomnia cover

224. Say Good Night To Insomnia

by Gregg D. Jacobs

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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart cover

225. Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

by Rachel Botsman

The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (Mit Press) cover

226. The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (Mit Press)

by Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, Jason Hemann

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) cover

227. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

by Roderick J. A. Little, Donald B. Rubin

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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

228. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

by Edward Chancellor

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

229. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math cover

230. A Logical Approach to Discrete Math

by David Gries, Fred B. Schneider

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech cover

231. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

232. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series) cover

233. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) cover

234. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies cover

235. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey B. West

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

237. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

238. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books) cover

239. Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books)

by Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht

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Site Reliability Engineering cover

240. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Jones, Chris (Computer engineer), Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

241. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) cover

242. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)

by Stuart Jonathan Russell, Peter Norvig, Ernest Davis

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

243. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work cover

244. The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work

by Gary Klein

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The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small cover

245. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

by John Gall

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How the TensorFlow team handles open source support cover

246. How the TensorFlow team handles open source support

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

247. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

248. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

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Spam Nation cover

249. Spam Nation

by Brian Krebs

DAEMON cover

250. DAEMON

by Daniel Suarez

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Working with Coders: A Guide to Software Development for the Perplexed Non-Techie cover

251. Working with Coders: A Guide to Software Development for the Perplexed Non-Techie

by Patrick Gleeson

The Timeless Way of Building cover

252. The Timeless Way of Building

by Christopher Alexander

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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

253. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It cover

254. Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It

by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, Drew Farris

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Digital Image Warping (Systems) cover

255. Digital Image Warping (Systems)

by George Wolberg

Production-Ready Microservices cover

256. Production-Ready Microservices

by Susan Fowler

Making Embedded Systems cover

257. Making Embedded Systems

by Elecia White

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

258. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

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Matthew Gast cover

259. Matthew Gast

The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization cover

260. The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

by James Bamford

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How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation cover

261. How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation

by Harry Binswanger

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand Library) cover

262. Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand Library)

by Leonard Peikoff

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All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School cover

263. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

by Thomas A. Garrity

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Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code cover

264. Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code

by Dmitri Sotnikov

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

265. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America cover

266. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

by Frances FitzGerald

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World cover

267. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

268. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen

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The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) cover

269. The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

by Soren Kierkegaard

Allen B. Downey cover

270. Allen B. Downey

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

271. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft cover

272. Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft

by David Bank

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Systems Programming With Modula-3 (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology) cover

273. Systems Programming With Modula-3 (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology)

by Charles G. Nelson

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

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

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Designing bots cover

275. Designing bots

by Amir Shevat

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics) cover

276. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)

by Fred Schwed, Jr.

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living cover

277. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

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Writing An Interpreter In Go cover

278. Writing An Interpreter In Go

by Thorsten Ball

TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy cover

279. TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy

by Jack Cashill

Algebra: Chapter 0 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) cover

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

by Paolo Aluffi

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Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

281. Linear Algebra Done Right (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Sheldon Jay Axler

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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

282. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core cover

283. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

by Jonathan Levin

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The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century cover

284. The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

by Joseph R. Blasi, Richard Barry Freeman, Douglas Kruse

Internet Routing Architectures cover

285. Internet Routing Architectures

by Bassam Halabi, Sam Halabi, Danny McPherson

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

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

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio cover

287. The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William Bernstein

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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success cover

288. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

289. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson

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

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

by Douglas W. Hubbard

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Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving cover

291. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving

by Sanjoy Mahajan

Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy (English and German Edition) cover

292. Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy (English and German Edition)

by Raymond Bradley, Norman Swartz

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (Mit Press) cover

293. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (Mit Press)

by Sanjoy Mahajan

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

294. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion cover

295. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

296. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences cover

297. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

by Mary L. Boas

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Head First Design Patterns cover

298. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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C++ Primer (5th Edition) cover

299. C++ Primer (5th Edition)

by Stanley B. Lippman

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The Cartoon Guide to Statistics cover

300. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

by Larry Gonick

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