Hacker News Books for 2021

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Hacker News Books for 2021

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2021.

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race cover

1. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

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

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

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto) cover

3. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)

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ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History cover

4. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters cover

5. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory cover

6. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory

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How to Watch TV News cover

7. How to Watch TV News

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

8. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition cover

9. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

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How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything cover

10. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything

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

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

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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us cover

12. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America cover

13. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions cover

14. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software cover

15. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

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21st Century C cover

16. 21st Century C

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

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

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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript cover

18. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 cover

19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior) cover

20. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

21. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) cover

22. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

23. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

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The New Kingmakers cover

24. The New Kingmakers

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

25. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures) cover

26. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)

The Gun that Changed the World cover

27. The Gun that Changed the World

Where Is My Flying Car? cover

28. Where Is My Flying Car?

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Private Equity Laid Bare cover

29. Private Equity Laid Bare

Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition cover

30. Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Writing GNU Emacs Extensions cover

31. Writing GNU Emacs Extensions

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth cover

32. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

33. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

34. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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

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

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Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques cover

36. Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques

Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional cover

37. Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional

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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines cover

38. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

Introduction to Information Retrieval cover

39. Introduction to Information Retrieval

The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) cover

40. The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

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

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

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

42. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

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Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language) cover

43. Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language)

The Turkish Cookbook cover

44. The Turkish Cookbook

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

45. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

46. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

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Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

47. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve cover

48. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

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Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond cover

49. Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

50. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

51. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

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The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want cover

52. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

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Stumbling on Happiness cover

53. Stumbling on Happiness

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Hard Realtime Garbage Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages. cover

54. Hard Realtime Garbage Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages.

Philosophical Investigations cover

55. Philosophical Investigations

Software architecture patterns cover

56. Software architecture patterns

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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing cover

57. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

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

58. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

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Gödel's Proof cover

59. Gödel's Proof

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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations cover

60. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Psychology and Life cover

61. Psychology and Life

What Is Web 2.0 cover

62. What Is Web 2.0

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

63. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature cover

64. Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming cover

65. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming

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

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

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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story cover

67. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story

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Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

68. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

69. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

70. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

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Thinking About Glue cover

71. Thinking About Glue

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

72. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

73. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

74. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort cover

75. Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort

Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work cover

76. Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work

The Jazz Piano Book cover

77. The Jazz Piano Book

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

78. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done cover

79. Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

Lightweight Django cover

80. Lightweight Django

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

81. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

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

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

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

83. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration cover

84. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

85. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

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Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

86. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

87. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

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O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

88. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

89. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon cover

90. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2) cover

91. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)

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How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? cover

92. How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

93. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice cover

94. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice

Dark Matter: A Novel cover

95. Dark Matter: A Novel

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

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

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Bill Evans – Jazz Piano Solos Songbook | Volume 19 in Jazz Piano Solos Series | 24 Classic Jazz Standards for Solo Piano | Arranged by Brent Edstrom for Intermediate to Advanced Players cover

97. Bill Evans – Jazz Piano Solos Songbook | Volume 19 in Jazz Piano Solos Series | 24 Classic Jazz Standards for Solo Piano | Arranged by Brent Edstrom for Intermediate to Advanced Players

Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery cover

98. Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World cover

99. Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World cover

100. Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World

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