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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 13, 2020 - Jul 20, 2020

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) cover

1. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web cover

2. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl

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Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale cover

3. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

by Boris Cherny

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Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx: Learn to build Redux style high-performing applications with Angular 6 cover

4. Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx: Learn to build Redux style high-performing applications with Angular 6

by Christoffer Noring

Mastering TypeScript 3: Build enterprise-ready, industrial-strength web applications using TypeScript 3 and modern frameworks, 3rd Edition cover

5. Mastering TypeScript 3: Build enterprise-ready, industrial-strength web applications using TypeScript 3 and modern frameworks, 3rd Edition

by Nathan Rozentals

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization cover

6. The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children cover

7. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

by Viviana A. Zelizer

The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia New Edition cover

8. The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia New Edition

by David King

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The Mathematical Theory of Communication cover

9. The Mathematical Theory of Communication

by Claude E Shannon, Warren Weaver

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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India cover

10. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

by Shashi Tharoor

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Calculus, 4th edition cover

11. Calculus, 4th edition

by Michael Spivak

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Programmers at Work cover

12. Programmers at Work

by Susan Lammers

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

13. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Elements of Discrete Mathematics cover

14. Elements of Discrete Mathematics

by Chung Laung Liu

The Betrayal of the West (A Continuum book) cover

15. The Betrayal of the West (A Continuum book)

by Jacques Ellul

Gödel's Proof cover

16. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

17. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness cover

18. Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness

by Ramana Maharshi, Ramana (Maharshi.)

Eastern Philosophy cover

19. Eastern Philosophy

by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies cover

20. The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies

by Thomas C. Mcevilley

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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna cover

21. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

by Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta

Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India cover

22. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

by Roberto Calasso

When Prophecy Fails cover

23. When Prophecy Fails

by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter

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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency cover

24. The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen

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The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering cover

25. The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering

by Capers Jones

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Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing cover

26. Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing

by Rod Canion

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone cover

27. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

by Brian McCullough

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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

28. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology (Independent Studies in Political Economy) cover

29. Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

by Stan J. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis

A People’s History of Computing in the United States cover

30. A People’s History of Computing in the United States

by Joy Lisi Rankin

Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date cover

31. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

by Robert X. Cringely

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

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

by Cliff Stoll

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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

33. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America cover

34. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America

by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

35. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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Bitwise: A Life in Code cover

36. Bitwise: A Life in Code

by David Auerbach

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

37. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

38. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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

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

by Jon Gertner

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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age cover

40. Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

by Leslie Berlin

Steve Jobs cover

41. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle cover

42. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle

by Matthew Symonds

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

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

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World cover

44. The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World

by Sharon Weinberger

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World cover

45. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson