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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 5, 2017 - Jun 12, 2017

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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

1. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport
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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

2. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
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Think Stats cover

3. Think Stats

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World cover

4. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

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

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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Art of Computer Programming, The: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links, Volume 4, Fascicle 5 cover

7. Art of Computer Programming, The: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links, Volume 4, Fascicle 5

by Donald E. Knuth
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

8. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser
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Code cover

9. Code

by Charles Petzold
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