Hacker News Books for 2019

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Hacker News Books for 2019

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2019.

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Advanced UNIX Programming cover

601. Advanced UNIX Programming

by Marc J. Rochkind

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline cover

602. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson

Pyramid cover

603. Pyramid

by David Macaulay

Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results cover

604. Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results

by Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg

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The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise (Dover Books on Mathematics);An;Dover Books on Mathematics cover

605. The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise (Dover Books on Mathematics);An;Dover Books on Mathematics

by Mary Tiles

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life cover

606. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

by John le Carré

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

607. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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The Technological Society cover

608. The Technological Society

by Jacques Ellul

Algorithms cover

609. Algorithms

by Jeff Erickson

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It cover

610. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

Oh, the Places You'll Go! cover

611. Oh, the Places You'll Go!

by Dr. Seuss

Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites cover

612. Hotwired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites

by Jeffrey Veen

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent cover

613. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

by Eduardo Galeano

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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book cover

614. The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

by Andriy Burkov

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The Outsider cover

615. The Outsider

by Colin Wilson

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Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields cover

616. Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

by J. E. Baggott

Man's Search for Meaning cover

617. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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A Short History of Progress cover

618. A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright

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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm cover

619. This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

by Ted Genoways

The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning cover

620. The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Richard A. Ferri, Laura F. Dogu

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) cover

621. I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

by Chuck Klosterman

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms cover

622. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

by Hannah Fry

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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty cover

623. Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

by Ian Stewart

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

624. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert

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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages cover

625. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

by Robert Harper

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Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture (Popular Woodworking) cover

626. Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture (Popular Woodworking)

by Marc Spagnuolo

Essential Joinery: The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know cover

627. Essential Joinery: The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know

by Marc Spagnuolo

Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest cover

628. Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest

by Sandi Doughton

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

629. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake cover

630. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

by Dr. Steven Novella

The Search for the Perfect Language cover

631. The Search for the Perfect Language

by Umberto Eco

Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC cover

632. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC

by Peter Norton, John Socha

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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals cover

633. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert Pirsig

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

634. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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The Key to Chinese Cooking cover

635. The Key to Chinese Cooking

by Irene Kuo

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers cover

636. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

by Sönke Ahrens

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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World cover

637. What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

by Jon Young

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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York cover

638. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum

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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology cover

639. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

by Valentino Braitenberg

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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers cover

640. Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers

by Joel Whitney

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray cover

641. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

by Sabine Hossenfelder

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An Intermediate Course in Probability (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

642. An Intermediate Course in Probability (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Allan Gut

The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization cover

643. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913-1914 cover

644. Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913-1914

by Frederic Morton

Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons cover

645. Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons

by J. Peter Rothe

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

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

by Tom Standage

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Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. cover

647. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

by Robert Paul Smith

The Fourth Phase of Water : Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor cover

648. The Fourth Phase of Water : Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

by Gerald H. Pollack

Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary cover

649. Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary

by Jim Hunolt

Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought cover

650. Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

by Drew Neil

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations cover

651. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

by Dietrich Dorner

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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters cover

652. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

by Tom Nichols

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

653. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor cover

654. Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor

by Erik Dietrich

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime cover

655. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

by Sean Carroll

Specifying Software: A Hands-On Introduction cover

656. Specifying Software: A Hands-On Introduction

by R. D. Tennent

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

657. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy cover

658. Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy

by Maikel Mardjan

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are cover

659. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are

by Joseph LeDoux

Indian Instant Pot(R) Cookbook: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy and Fast cover

660. Indian Instant Pot(R) Cookbook: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy and Fast

by Urvashi Pitre

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition cover

661. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

What is Category Theory? cover

662. What is Category Theory?

by Giandomenico Sica

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition) cover

663. Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition)

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade cover

664. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

665. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018) cover

666. The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols

Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis cover

667. Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis

by Paris Williams

A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

668. A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton Gordon Malkiel

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (A Brief History of the Natural World) cover

669. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (A Brief History of the Natural World)

by Richard Dawkins

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Macroeconomics cover

670. Macroeconomics

by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

671. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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Qigong Essentials for Health Promotion cover

672. Qigong Essentials for Health Promotion

by Guorui Jiao

Chinese Qigong Therapy cover

673. Chinese Qigong Therapy

by Mingwu Zhang

Illustration of Channels and Points for Acupuncture and Moxibustion cover

674. Illustration of Channels and Points for Acupuncture and Moxibustion

by 王一方

How to Make Mistakes in Python cover

675. How to Make Mistakes in Python

by Mike Pirnat

UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

676. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny cover

677. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World cover

678. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by J. Adam Tooze

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Lisp in Small Pieces cover

679. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World cover

680. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope

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Land of Lisp cover

681. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski

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The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) cover

682. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams

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The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates cover

683. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

by Peter T. Leeson

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

684. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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The Sphere of Influence: The Heliocentric Perversion of the Gospel cover

685. The Sphere of Influence: The Heliocentric Perversion of the Gospel

by Edward Hendrie

The Greatest Lie on Earth (Expanded Edition): Proof That Our World Is Not a Moving Globe cover

686. The Greatest Lie on Earth (Expanded Edition): Proof That Our World Is Not a Moving Globe

by Edward Hendrie

The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science) cover

687. The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

by John L. Gustafson

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Bicycles & Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Design and Construction (Dover Transportation) cover

688. Bicycles & Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Design and Construction (Dover Transportation)

by Archibald Sharp

Target de Gaulle: The true story of the 31 attempts on the life of the French president cover

689. Target de Gaulle: The true story of the 31 attempts on the life of the French president

by Pierre Démaret, Christian Plume

Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence) cover

690. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence)

by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

691. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player cover

692. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ',The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player

by Nolan Dalla, Peter Alson

The Rust Programming Language cover

693. The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism cover

694. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

695. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

by Callie L. French, Dan/M Pelletier

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents cover

696. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age cover

697. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

by Ann Blair

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science cover

698. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

by Richard Yeo

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders cover

699. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

by L. David Marquet

Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know cover

700. Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know

by Gregory Wrightstone