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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Real Food / Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It cover

201. Real Food / Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics cover

202. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics

The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

203. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

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What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength cover

204. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray cover

205. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

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Programming Quantum Computers cover

206. Programming Quantum Computers

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error cover

207. Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

208. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

209. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

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Fair Thee Well cover

210. Fair Thee Well

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

211. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation) cover

212. Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)

The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind cover

213. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

What Technology Wants cover

214. What Technology Wants

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor cover

215. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

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The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms cover

216. The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms

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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

217. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design cover

218. The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained cover

219. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers cover

220. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

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Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times (Macmillan Science) cover

221. Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times (Macmillan Science)

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight cover

222. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

223. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

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Airway Management: A Solution for Our Health Crisis cover

224. Airway Management: A Solution for Our Health Crisis

Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Sythesis cover

225. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Sythesis

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

226. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

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Code Complete cover

227. Code Complete

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness cover

228. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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Lying cover

229. Lying

The Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside cover

230. The Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside

Problem-Solving Through Problems (Problem Books in Mathematics) cover

231. Problem-Solving Through Problems (Problem Books in Mathematics)

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

232. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy cover

233. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition cover

234. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation-Expanded Edition

Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching cover

235. Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching

The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

236. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

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Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition cover

237. Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition

The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 cover

238. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

Thinking on Paper: The Harvard Researchers' Practical Manual for Overcoming Writer's Block and Generating Ideas cover

239. Thinking on Paper: The Harvard Researchers' Practical Manual for Overcoming Writer's Block and Generating Ideas

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics cover

240. The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK Reference cover

241. The Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK Reference

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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

242. A Philosophy of Software Design

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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual cover

243. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

244. Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It cover

245. Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

246. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

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Head Rush Ajax cover

247. Head Rush Ajax

Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4A, Part 1 cover

248. Art of Computer Programming, The: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4A, Part 1

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

249. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium cover

250. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics cover

251. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

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The Fifth Risk cover

252. The Fifth Risk

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Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

253. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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Psychological Operations - Principles and Case Studies cover

254. Psychological Operations - Principles and Case Studies

Perfume: The Story of Murder cover

255. Perfume: The Story of Murder

Basic Economics cover

256. Basic Economics

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The Geek Atlas cover

257. The Geek Atlas

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

258. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

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RESTful Web Services cover

259. RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web APIs cover

260. RESTful Web APIs

REST in Practice cover

261. REST in Practice

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

262. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Blindsight (Firefall, 1) cover

263. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach cover

264. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends cover

265. The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends

Intelligence: All That Matters cover

266. Intelligence: All That Matters

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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization cover

267. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) cover

268. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator cover

269. Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation cover

270. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain cover

271. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

The Richest Man In Babylon cover

272. The Richest Man In Babylon

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

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

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Why Reactive? cover

274. Why Reactive?

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain cover

275. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Plastics Failure Guide 2E: Cause and Prevention cover

276. Plastics Failure Guide 2E: Cause and Prevention

TCP/IP Illustrated cover

277. TCP/IP Illustrated

Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage cover

278. Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage

Professional Cookery cover

279. Professional Cookery

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World cover

280. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It cover

281. The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It

The Study of Orchestration cover

282. The Study of Orchestration

Snowflake Science: Activity Book cover

283. Snowflake Science: Activity Book

Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning cover

284. Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

285. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

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The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time cover

286. The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our Time

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

287. Java Concurrency in Practice

Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems cover

288. Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

289. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

290. Purely Functional Data Structures

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Countdown cover

291. Countdown

The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek cover

292. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow cover

293. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible cover

294. Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft cover

295. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

296. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science cover

297. Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science

Abstract Algebra cover

298. Abstract Algebra

How Judges Think (Pims - Polity Immigration and Society Series) cover

299. How Judges Think (Pims - Polity Immigration and Society Series)

Observations Upon The Prophecies Of Daniel And The Apocalypse Of St. John cover

300. Observations Upon The Prophecies Of Daniel And The Apocalypse Of St. John