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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 1, 2017 - May 8, 2017

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

1. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

2. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration cover

4. Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

5. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life cover

6. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

by Thomas Gilovich

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

7. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must cover

8. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner

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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

9. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski

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Jessy Irwin on making security understandable for everyone cover

10. Jessy Irwin on making security understandable for everyone

Programming Perl, 3rd Edition cover

11. Programming Perl, 3rd Edition

by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant

Tweets loud and quiet cover

12. Tweets loud and quiet