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Hacker News Books for 2020
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1. A Renegade History of the United States
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2. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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3. Who's in Charge?: The Neuroscience of Decision-Making, the Notion of Free Will and the Idea of a Determined World
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4. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
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5. 超限战 与反超限战,中国人提出的新战争观美国人如何应对
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6. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
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7. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
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8. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback))
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9. Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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10. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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11. Purity: A Novel
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12. BGP
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13. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
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14. Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)
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15. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media
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16. Software Engineering at Google
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17. And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
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18. A short history of the O'Reilly animals
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19. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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20. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)
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21. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth
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22. Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD
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23. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
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24. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
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25. Unraveling DNA
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26. The Biology of Viruses
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27. Yeager: An Autobiography
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28. Learning Malware Analysis
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29. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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30. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
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31. Harry Potter: Slytherin Glass Votive Candle (Luminaries)
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32. Red Plenty
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33. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic
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34. Online Learning Platform Pricing - O'Reilly Media
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35. Molecular Biology of the Cell
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36. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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37. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)
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38. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
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39. Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition
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40. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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41. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
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42. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
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43. The Culture Map
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44. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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45. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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46. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
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47. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
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48. Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
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49. Say Good Night To Insomnia
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50. Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
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51. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations
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52. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression
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53. Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition
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54. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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55. Clojure Programming
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56. Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
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57. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
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58. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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59. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo
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60. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more
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61. No bullshit guide to linear algebra
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62. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
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63. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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64. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms
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65. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
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66. The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Numbers: Revised Edition
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67. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
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68. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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69. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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70. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
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71. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
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72. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
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73. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition
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74. Piracy is progressive taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution
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75. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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76. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame
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77. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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78. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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79. High Performance Browser Networking
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80. The Design of the UNIX Operating System
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81. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale
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82. Laravel: Up & Running, 2nd Edition
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83. Making Software
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84. Lisp in Small Pieces
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85. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts
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86. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
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87. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
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88. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
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89. Code
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90. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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91. The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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92. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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93. Visual Complex Analysis
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94. JavaScript: The Good Parts
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95. Replay
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96. The mission of spreading the knowledge of innovators continues
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97. No bullshit guide to math and physics
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98. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
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99. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
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100. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
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