Hacker News Books for 2020

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Hacker News Books for 2020

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2020.

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1. Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

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2. Une Fois Pour Toutes

3. Small talk survival: praktische gids voor de gesprekken tussendoor (Dutch Edition)

4. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

5. The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

6. Rough Cut--Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-Step Projects

7. Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages

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8. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

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9. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants In American Democracy (Business and Public Policy)

10. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

11. Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery

12. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

13. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

14. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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15. The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds

16. Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails

17. Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary

18. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

19. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

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20. Ringtone: Exploring the Rise and Fall of Nokia in Mobile Phones

21. Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change

22. Lifespan: Why We Age_and Why We Don't Have To

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23. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

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24. Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

25. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

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26. The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises

27. Mindfulness in Plain English

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28. Unflattening

29. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

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30. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

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31. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

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32. Making Things Move Diy Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists

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

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34. West with the Night: A Memoir

35. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

36. Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

37. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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38. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

39. Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History

40. The Symmetries of Things

41. The Story of the Mongols: Whom We Call the Tartars

42. Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Wordsworth Classics)

43. Travels (Vintage Departures)

44. Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)

45. Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

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46. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

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47. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

48. The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

49. Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

50. Auto Mechanics Fundamentals (How and Why of the Design, Construction and Operation of Automotive Units)

51. Ein Narzisst Packt Aus: Ehrlichkeit Gegenuber Dem Inneren Kind Und Gesellschaftliche Anerkennung (German Edition)

52. An Introduction to Mineral Sciences

53. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

54. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

55. Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

56. The Soul of the White Ant (Complete and Unabridged): The Original Work of Ethology

57. C++ für Kids: Grundlagen für Spieleprogrammierer

58. Erlang and OTP in Action

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59. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World (Pragmatic Programmers)

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60. Elixir in Action

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61. Programming Elixir â‰¥ 1.6: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun

62. Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life)

63. Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood)

64. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

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65. Starship Repo

66. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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67. Feersum Endjinn: A Novel

68. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

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69. The Secret Chief: Conversations with a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement

70. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

71. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

72. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)

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73. Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming: Covers x86 64-bit, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512

74. Low-Level Programming: C, Assembly, and Program Execution on IntelÂ® 64 Architecture

75. Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps

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76. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

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77. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

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78. Digitale Demenz: Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen

79. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

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80. The Dream Machine

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81. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

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82. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food

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83. The Non-Designer's Design Book (4th Edition)

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84. The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age

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85. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

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86. Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon

87. Principles of Neural Design (The MIT Press)

88. Luck (Key Ideas in Business and Management)

89. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press)

90. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition

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91. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

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92. A Cultural History of Physics

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

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94. Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

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95. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

96. The Klutz Book of Knots

97. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

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98. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

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99. White

100. Programming Game AI by Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)

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