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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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

401. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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

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

by David McCullough

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BioBuilder cover

403. BioBuilder

by Natalie Kuldell, Rachel Bernstein, Karen Ingram, Kathryn M. Hart

Zero Trust Networks cover

404. Zero Trust Networks

by Evan Gilman, Doug Barth

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism cover

405. 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

406. 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

407. 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

408. 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

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

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents cover

410. 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

411. 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

412. 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

413. 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

414. 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

415. 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

416. 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

417. Guide to the Good Life, A

by William B. Irvine, James Patrick Cronin

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Streaming 101: The world beyond batch cover

418. Streaming 101: The world beyond batch

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

419. 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

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

by Paul Jarvis

Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

421. 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

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

by Laurence Bergreen

Great Space Battles cover

423. Great Space Battles

by Stewart Cowley, Charles Herridge

Rational Fasting: Official Ehret Society Edition cover

424. Rational Fasting: Official Ehret Society Edition

by Arnold Ehret

Essentials of Programming Languages cover

425. 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

426. 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

427. 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

428. 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

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

by Jake Halpern

Complete Venus Equilateral cover

430. Complete Venus Equilateral

by George O. Smith

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

431. 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

432. 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

433. 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

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

by Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

435. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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Fluent Python cover

436. Fluent Python

by Luciano Ramalho

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Head First Design Patterns cover

437. 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

438. 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

439. 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

440. 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

441. 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

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

by Randy Normann

Quantum Mechanics and Experience cover

443. Quantum Mechanics and Experience

by David Z Albert

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

444. 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

445. 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

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

by Dan Roam

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The Terror cover

447. The Terror

by Dan Simmons

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

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

by Stefan Al

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

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

by David Mumford

Designing Distributed Systems cover

450. Designing Distributed Systems

by Brendan Burns

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

451. 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

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

by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt

Circuits of the Mind cover

453. Circuits of the Mind

by Leslie G. Valiant

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

454. 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

455. 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

456. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

by Ken Keyes

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

457. 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

458. 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

459. 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

460. 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

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

by Stanisław Lem

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The Machine Stops cover

462. The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

Nine Stories cover

463. Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch Of The Cellular Revolution cover

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

by James B. Murray, Lisa Dickey

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

465. 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

466. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

by Alan Deutschman

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

467. 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

468. 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

469. The Architecture of Privacy

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

470. 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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The Black God's Drums cover

471. The Black God's Drums

by P. Djèlí Clark

Principles: Life and Work cover

472. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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Tragic Design cover

473. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard

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

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

by Jon Koomey

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High Output Management cover

475. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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

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

by James Gleick

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Phone Calls From the Dead cover

477. Phone Calls From the Dead

by D. Scott Rogo, Raymond Bayless

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

478. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous

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UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers cover

479. UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers

by Uresh Vahalia

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

480. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ cover

481. Multi-Paradigm Design for C++

by James O. Coplien

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

482. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Designing Data Structures in Python cover

483. Designing Data Structures in Python

Working with Algorithms in Python cover

484. Working with Algorithms in Python

Mmurtl V1.0 cover

485. Mmurtl V1.0

by Richard A. Burgess

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

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

by Richard A. Burgess

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

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

by Jim Kwik

The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader cover

488. The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader

by Mike Bellafiore

Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life! cover

489. Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life!

by Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models cover

490. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann

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Optimal Design of Experiments: A Case Study Approach (Jewish Culture and Contexts) cover

491. Optimal Design of Experiments: A Case Study Approach (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

by Peter Goos, Bradley Jones

The Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

492. The Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by John Mandel

Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery cover

493. Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery

by George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter, William G. Hunter

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Experimental Physics cover

494. Experimental Physics

by Walter F. Smith

Escaping the Build Trap cover

495. Escaping the Build Trap

by Melissa Perri

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Beyond Product cover

496. Beyond Product

by Jill Soley, Todd Wilms

Using Asyncio in Python cover

497. Using Asyncio in Python

by Caleb Hattingh

Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy cover

498. Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

by Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau

Apache Pulsar Versus Apache Kafka cover

499. Apache Pulsar Versus Apache Kafka

by Chris Bartholomew

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

500. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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