Hacker News Books

Years > 2020 > Week 48

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 23, 2020 - Nov 30, 2020

Join 4,200+ subscribers

Get the best books from Hacker News every Thursday.

Showing 1 - 33 of 33 books

Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback)) cover

1. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring (Paperback))

by Christopher Hitchens

Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

2. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

Read 62 comments

The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight) cover

3. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)

by Dr. Jason Fung

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future cover

4. And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

by Yanis Varoufakis

Challenges of the Developing World cover

5. Challenges of the Developing World

by Howard Handelman

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence cover

6. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

Read 7 comments

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

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

by Larry Olmsted

Fair Thee Well cover

8. Fair Thee Well

by Nathan Jones

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

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

by James Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi

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

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

by John Derbyshire

Read 2 comments

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

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

by Nicholson Baker

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

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

by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Non-Designer's Design Book, The cover

13. Non-Designer's Design Book, The

by Robin Williams

Read 7 comments

UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

14. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

Read 16 comments

Texting Manual 4 Every1: A compilation of over 5000 Signs, acronyms and texting symbols cover

15. Texting Manual 4 Every1: A compilation of over 5000 Signs, acronyms and texting symbols

by Alexis McGeachy

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building cover

16. The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

by Matt Mochary

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 cover

17. The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

by David Edgerton

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

18. 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

19. 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

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

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents cover

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

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

by Arieh Ben-Naim

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

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

by Paul Jarvis

A Song for a New Day cover

28. A Song for a New Day

by Sarah Pinsker

Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

29. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

Read 3 comments

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

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

by David Mumford

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

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

by Christian Rudder

Read 6 comments

Four Short Links - O’Reilly cover

32. Four Short Links - O’Reilly

Read 2 comments

Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ cover

33. Multi-Paradigm Design for C++

by James O. Coplien