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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 13, 2018 - Aug 20, 2018

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Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman cover

1. Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

by Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

2. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving-And How You Can Too cover

3. The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving-And How You Can Too

by Deirdre Barrett

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood cover

4. An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

by Jimmy Carter

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Strength in Numbers: A Novel of Cryptocurrency cover

5. Strength in Numbers: A Novel of Cryptocurrency

by Bill Laboon

A Philosophy of Software Design cover

6. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

7. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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SQL Cookbook cover

8. SQL Cookbook

by Anthony Molinaro

Readings in Database Systems (The MIT Press) cover

9. Readings in Database Systems (The MIT Press)

by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

10. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design cover

11. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

by Henry Petroski

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Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering cover

12. Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering

by Henry Petroski

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Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America cover

13. Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

by Henry Petroski

Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II cover

14. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II

by Joseph E. Persico

This Craft of Verse (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) cover

15. This Craft of Verse (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

by Jorge Luis Borges

The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment cover

16. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

by Reyner Banham

Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World cover

17. Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World

by Philip Sabin

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications cover

18. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications

by David Deutsch

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Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply cover

19. Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply

by Dan Morgan

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What Technology Wants cover

20. What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

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The First Quarter : A 25-year History of Video Games cover

21. The First Quarter : A 25-year History of Video Games

by Steve L. Kent

The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics cover

22. The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

by Karl Sabbagh

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

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

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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Fluent Python cover

24. Fluent Python

by Luciano Ramalho

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Learning Python cover

25. Learning Python

by Mark Lutz

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Programming in Ada 2012 cover

26. Programming in Ada 2012

by John Gilbert Presslie Barnes

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying cover

27. Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying

by Wolfgang Langewiesche

Concurrency in Go cover

28. Concurrency in Go

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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