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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The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times cover

401. The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

by Adrienne Mayor

Building Machine Learning Pipelines: Automating Model Life Cycles with TensorFlow cover

402. Building Machine Learning Pipelines: Automating Model Life Cycles with TensorFlow

by Hannes Hapke, Catherine Nelson

The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle cover

403. The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle

by Kent Nerburn

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

404. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

405. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know cover

406. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

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Git for Teams cover

407. Git for Teams

by Emma Jane Hogbin Westby

21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

408. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir cover

409. The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

by Marina Whitman

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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge cover

410. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

by David McCullough

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BioBuilder cover

411. BioBuilder

Zero Trust Networks cover

412. Zero Trust Networks

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism cover

413. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein

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Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

414. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

by David J. Agans

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DISCOVER ENTROPY AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: A PLAYFUL WAY OF DISCOVERING A LAW OF NATURE cover

415. DISCOVER ENTROPY AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: A PLAYFUL WAY OF DISCOVERING A LAW OF NATURE

by Arieh Ben-Naim

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

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

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Entropy And The Second Law: Interpretation And Misss-Interpretationsss cover

417. Entropy And The Second Law: Interpretation And Misss-Interpretationsss

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents cover

418. Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe, The: Elements Of Thermodynamics For The Curious And Intelligent cover

419. Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe, The: Elements Of Thermodynamics For The Curious And Intelligent

by Arieh Ben-Naim

TIME'S ARROW (?): The Timeless Nature of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics cover

420. TIME'S ARROW (?): The Timeless Nature of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Farewell To Entropy, A: Statistical Thermodynamics Based On Information cover

421. Farewell To Entropy, A: Statistical Thermodynamics Based On Information

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Information, Entropy, Life And The Universe: What We Know And What We Do Not Know cover

422. Information, Entropy, Life And The Universe: What We Know And What We Do Not Know

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Entropy: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth cover

423. Entropy: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth

by Arieh Ben-Naim

The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) cover

424. The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

by Lani GUINIER, Gerald Torres

Guide to the Good Life, A cover

425. Guide to the Good Life, A

by William B. Irvine, James Patrick Cronin

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Streaming 101: The world beyond batch cover

426. Streaming 101: The world beyond batch

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

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

by Jon Young

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Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business cover

428. Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

by Paul Jarvis

Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

429. Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by John Stillwell

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe cover

430. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

by Laurence Bergreen

Great Space Battles cover

431. Great Space Battles

by Stewart Cowley, Charles Herridge

Rational Fasting: Official Ehret Society Edition cover

432. Rational Fasting: Official Ehret Society Edition

by Arnold Ehret

Essentials of Programming Languages cover

433. Essentials of Programming Languages

by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, Christopher Thomas Haynes

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer cover

434. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

435. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World cover

436. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld cover

437. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern

Complete Venus Equilateral cover

438. Complete Venus Equilateral

by George O. Smith

Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It cover

439. Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

by April Dunford

A Song for a New Day cover

440. A Song for a New Day

by Sarah Pinsker

Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars cover

441. Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars

by C. K. Raju

The Art of Problem Solving, Vol. 1: The Basics cover

442. The Art of Problem Solving, Vol. 1: The Basics

by Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

443. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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Fluent Python cover

444. Fluent Python

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Head First Design Patterns cover

445. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul cover

446. Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

by Stuart Brown M.D., Christopher Vaughan

How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken cover

447. How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

by Alex Marshall

The Laws of an Eruv; A comprehensive review of the laws of Eruvin and their practical applications cover

448. The Laws of an Eruv; A comprehensive review of the laws of Eruvin and their practical applications

by Shlomo Francis, Yonason Glenner

What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (Business Management) (English and Japanese Edition) cover

449. What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (Business Management) (English and Japanese Edition)

by Kaoru Ishikawa

Arduino for Projects in Scientific Measurement: Take your Arduino to the Frontiers of Science! cover

450. Arduino for Projects in Scientific Measurement: Take your Arduino to the Frontiers of Science!

by Randy Normann

Quantum Mechanics and Experience cover

451. Quantum Mechanics and Experience

by David Z Albert

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Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use cover

452. Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

by Fred Trotter, David Uhlman

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The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) cover

453. The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

by Will Schutz

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The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures cover

454. The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

by Dan Roam

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The Terror cover

455. The Terror

by Dan Simmons

The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream cover

456. The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream

by Stefan Al

Algebraic Geometry I: Complex Projective Varieties (Classics in Mathematics) cover

457. Algebraic Geometry I: Complex Projective Varieties (Classics in Mathematics)

by David Mumford

Designing Distributed Systems cover

458. Designing Distributed Systems

by Brendan Burns

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

459. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design cover

460. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

461. Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

Circuits of the Mind cover

462. Circuits of the Mind

by Leslie G. Valiant

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The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination cover

463. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

by Alain Corbin

Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump cover

464. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

by David Neiwert

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Handbook to Higher Consciousness cover

465. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

by Ken Keyes

Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition cover

466. Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition

by Shelley Powers

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Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work cover

467. Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work

by J.J. Murphy

Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico cover

468. Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

469. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) (VOLUME I) cover

470. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) (VOLUME I)

by David Hackett Fischer

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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy cover

471. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

by Stanisław Lem

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The Machine Stops cover

472. The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

Nine Stories cover

473. Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch Of The Cellular Revolution cover

474. Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch Of The Cellular Revolution

by James B. Murray, Lisa Dickey

Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves cover

475. Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

by Christian Rudder

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

476. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs cover

477. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

by Alan Deutschman

Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear cover

478. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

by Jim Steinmeyer

Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more cover

479. Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more

by David H. Freedman

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The Architecture of Privacy cover

480. The Architecture of Privacy

The Black God's Drums cover

481. The Black God's Drums

by P. Djèlí Clark

The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance (Owner's and Instruction Manual) cover

482. The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance (Owner's and Instruction Manual)

by Louis Borgenicht M.D., Joe Borgenicht

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Principles: Life and Work cover

483. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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Tragic Design cover

484. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard

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Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs cover

485. Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs

by Jon Koomey

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High Output Management cover

486. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

487. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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Phone Calls From the Dead cover

488. Phone Calls From the Dead

by D. Scott Rogo, Raymond Bayless

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power cover

489. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

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UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers cover

490. UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers

by Uresh Vahalia

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

491. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media cover

492. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

493. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ cover

494. Multi-Paradigm Design for C++

by James O. Coplien

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

495. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Designing Data Structures in Python cover

496. Designing Data Structures in Python

Working with Algorithms in Python cover

497. Working with Algorithms in Python

Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

498. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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Mmurtl V1.0 cover

499. Mmurtl V1.0

by Richard A. Burgess

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life cover

500. Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

by Jim Kwik