Hacker News Books

Years > 2018 > Week 21

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 21, 2018 - May 28, 2018

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

Showing 1 - 42 of 42 books

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

1. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

Read 24 comments

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

Read 71 comments

Perl Best Practices cover

3. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway

Read 4 comments

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant cover

4. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne

Read 2 comments

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd cover

5. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

by Youngme Moon

Read 5 comments

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40 cover

6. The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40

by Jonathon Sullivan, Andy Baker

Read 2 comments

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

7. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

Read 13 comments

The Standard C Library cover

8. The Standard C Library

by Stephen G. Kochan

Read 3 comments

The C++ Standard Template Library cover

9. The C++ Standard Template Library

by P. J. Plauger

Read 2 comments

Draft Standard C++ Library, The cover

10. Draft Standard C++ Library, The

by P. J. Plauger

Read 2 comments

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development cover

11. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen

Read 19 comments

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

Read 35 comments

Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health cover

13. Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health

by Arnold Ehret

Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

14. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

Read 11 comments

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

15. The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Divine Comedy cover

16. The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

The Design of Everyday Things cover

17. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

Read 37 comments

Aggressive Network Self-Defense cover

18. Aggressive Network Self-Defense

by Neil R. Wyler

Unix Shell Programming (3rd Edition) cover

19. Unix Shell Programming (3rd Edition)

by Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. Wood

Read 3 comments

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness cover

20. 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

by Alanna Collen

Read 2 comments

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life cover

21. Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life

by David Perlmutter

Read 2 comments

Product Market Structure And Labor Market Discrimination cover

22. Product Market Structure And Labor Market Discrimination

by John S. Heywood, James H. Peoples

Minds, Brains and Machines (Mind Matters) cover

23. Minds, Brains and Machines (Mind Matters)

by Geoffrey Brown

Read 2 comments

Usborne Guide to Understanding the Micro: How It Works and What It Can Do (Usborne Computers & Electronics) cover

24. Usborne Guide to Understanding the Micro: How It Works and What It Can Do (Usborne Computers & Electronics)

by Judy Tatchell

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation cover

25. 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

by Joe Sutter, Jay Spenser

Read 3 comments

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

26. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Read 9 comments

Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) cover

27. Mindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

by Ellen J. Langer

Read 2 comments

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook cover

28. Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

by Michael Lopp

Read 2 comments

Team Geek cover

29. Team Geek

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

Read 7 comments

The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood cover

30. The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

by Susan Engel

The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop cover

31. The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop

by John Marchese

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

32. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

Read 8 comments

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking cover

33. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C Dennett

Read 2 comments

My First Book About Computers cover

34. My First Book About Computers

by Luca Novelli

The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions cover

35. The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions

by Rolf Dobelli

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco cover

36. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Read 2 comments

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues cover

37. Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

by Martin J. Blaser

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

38. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

Read 19 comments

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

39. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau

Read 8 comments

Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual cover

40. Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual

by John Z. Sonmez

Read 4 comments

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

41. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

Read 12 comments

The Control of Nature cover

42. The Control of Nature

by John McPhee

Read 2 comments