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

by Nicole Perlroth

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

2. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins

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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth cover

3. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

by Andrew Smith

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

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

by Martin Gurri

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

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

by Jennifer Dasal

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

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

by Frances Stonor Saunders

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

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

by Michael C. Carroll

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How to Watch TV News cover

9. How to Watch TV News

Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition cover

10. Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition

by Shelley Powers

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

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

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition cover

12. Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

by Tomas Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

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

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

by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, Wilma Keppel

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

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

by David Graeber

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

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

by Carole Hooven

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

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

by Jo Barraclough Paoletti

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

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

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

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

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

by Nadia Eghbal

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21st Century C cover

19. 21st Century C

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

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

by Mark Schatzker

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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript cover

21. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

by Angus Croll

Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo cover

22. Video Kids: Making Sense of Nintendo

by Eugene F. Provenzo

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

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

by Rashid Khalidi

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

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

by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels

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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

25. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens

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

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

by John Drury Clark

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

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

by Steven Levy

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The New Kingmakers cover

28. The New Kingmakers

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

29. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz

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

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

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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

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

by Joscha Bach

The Gun that Changed the World cover

32. The Gun that Changed the World

by Mikhail Kalashnikov

Where Is My Flying Car? cover

33. Where Is My Flying Car?

by J. Storrs Hall

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Private Equity Laid Bare cover

34. Private Equity Laid Bare

by Ludovic Phalippou

Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition cover

35. Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Writing GNU Emacs Extensions cover

36. Writing GNU Emacs Extensions

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

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

by Michael Kerrisk

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

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

by Sam Quinones

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

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

by William B. Irvine

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

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

by Cliff Stoll

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

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

by Vinny Troia

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

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

by Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, Russ Jones

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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines cover

43. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

by Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack

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Introduction to Information Retrieval cover

44. Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

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

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

by Shoshana Zuboff

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

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

by Tim Severin

The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

47. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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

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

by Jean-Louis Dessalles

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

49. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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The Turkish Cookbook cover

50. The Turkish Cookbook

by Musa Dagdeviren

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

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

by Philip N. Klein

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

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

by G. Edward Griffin

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Thinking About Glue cover

53. Thinking About Glue

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-wesley Component Software) cover

54. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-wesley Component Software)

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

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Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond cover

55. Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond

by David Loy

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

56. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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

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

by Eric Ries

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

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

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Stumbling on Happiness cover

59. Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

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

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

by Fridtjof Siebert

Philosophical Investigations cover

61. Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Software architecture patterns cover

62. Software architecture patterns

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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing cover

63. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

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

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

by Blake Snyder

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Gödel's Proof cover

65. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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What Is Web 2.0 cover

66. What Is Web 2.0

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

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

by Thomas L. Friedman

Psychology and Life cover

68. Psychology and Life

by Richard J. Gerrig, Philip G. Zimbardo

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

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

by Richard Rhodes

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

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

by Richard Rhodes

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming cover

71. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

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

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

by James Gleick

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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story cover

73. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story

by John Stockwell

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

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

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell

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

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

by Edmond Lau

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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America cover

76. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

by Chris Arnade

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

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

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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

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

by Matthew Walker

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

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

by John J. Ratey

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

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

by Robert D. Putnam

Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort cover

81. Check Your Privilege: Lean into the discomfort

by Myisha Hill, Jennifer Kinney, Tina Strawn

Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work cover

82. Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work

by Myisha Hill

The Jazz Piano Book cover

83. The Jazz Piano Book

by Mark Levine

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers cover

84. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

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Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done cover

85. Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

by Jon Acuff

Language As Disclosure: Reading Language in the Works of Five American Modernists cover

86. Language As Disclosure: Reading Language in the Works of Five American Modernists

by Carolyn Norman Slaughter

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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

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

by Edward Chancellor

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

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

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

89. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration cover

90. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

by Bryan Caplan

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Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

91. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

93. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis

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

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

by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

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

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

by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

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The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir cover

96. The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

by Marina Whitman

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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

97. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski

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

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

by Shunryū Suzuki

Dark Matter: A Novel cover

99. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

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

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

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