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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The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order cover

201. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order

by Sean McFate

The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations cover

202. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

by Dietrich Dorner

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Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More cover

203. Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More

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The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing cover

204. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

by Joost A. M. Meerloo

Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition) cover

205. Winnie Ille Pu (Latin Edition)

by A. A. Milne

Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers cover

206. Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers

by David Ohle, Roger Martin, Susan Brosseau

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Programming Perl, 4th Edition cover

207. Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen

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Mastering Perl cover

208. Mastering Perl

by brian foy

Intermediate Perl cover

209. Intermediate Perl

by Randal L. Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

Streaming 101: The world beyond batch cover

210. Streaming 101: The world beyond batch

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Streaming 102: The world beyond batch cover

211. Streaming 102: The world beyond batch

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Making Software cover

212. Making Software

by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson

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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa cover

213. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

by Michael A. Gomez

The Manager's Path cover

214. The Manager's Path

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Overthrow cover

215. Overthrow

by Stephen Kinzer

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

216. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Niall Ferguson

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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

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

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

by Christian Rudder

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) cover

219. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Liaquat Ahamed

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

220. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)

by Peter Wohlleben

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OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation cover

221. OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

222. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey

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Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam cover

223. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon cover

224. Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers

The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World cover

225. The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World

by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck

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Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking cover

226. Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

by David Bayles, Ted Orland

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The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) cover

227. The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

by William R. Uttal

Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience cover

228. Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience

by William R. Uttal

Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

229. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

230. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America cover

231. Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui

Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us cover

232. Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us

by Victor J. Stenger

Beautiful Code cover

233. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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JFK: The Smoking Gun cover

234. JFK: The Smoking Gun

Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy cover

235. Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy

by Richard Werner

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Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide To Alternative Building Methods - Earth Plaster, Straw Bale, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs cover

236. Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide To Alternative Building Methods - Earth Plaster, Straw Bale, Cordwood, Cob, Living Roofs

by Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan

Tartine Bread cover

237. Tartine Bread

by Chad Robertson

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Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby cover

238. Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby

by Stephen L. Carter

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo cover

239. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

by Michela Wrong

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

240. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software 2nd Edition cover

241. Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software 2nd Edition

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson

Head First Git: A Learner's Guide to Understanding Git from the Inside Out cover

242. Head First Git: A Learner's Guide to Understanding Git from the Inside Out

by Raju Gandhi

The Linux Programming Interface cover

243. The Linux Programming Interface

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The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win cover

244. The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

by Jeff Haden

The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve cover

245. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

by Steve Stewart-Williams

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

246. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Windows XP in a Nutshell, Second Edition cover

247. Windows XP in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Are Prisons Obsolete? cover

248. Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

Circuits of the Mind cover

249. Circuits of the Mind

by Leslie G. Valiant

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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters cover

250. Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

by Steven E. Koonin

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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality cover

251. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality

by Lewis C. Epstein, Paul G. Hewitt

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Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition cover

252. Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

by Charles E. Spurgeon. Joann Zimmerman

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Ethernet: The Definitive Guide cover

253. Ethernet: The Definitive Guide

by Charles E. Spurgeon

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Ethernet Switches cover

254. Ethernet Switches

by Charles E. Spurgeon

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It―Unlock Your Persuasion Potential in Professional and Personal Life cover

255. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It―Unlock Your Persuasion Potential in Professional and Personal Life

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

256. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) cover

257. The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

by Will Schutz

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Perl Cookbook cover

258. Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World cover

259. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by J. Adam Tooze

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer cover

260. Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

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The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 cover

261. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

by Jordan Mechner

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Google Hacks cover

262. Google Hacks

by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty cover

263. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

264. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety cover

265. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

by Alan Watts

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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

266. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

267. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web cover

268. The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag

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Radio Theory Handbook - Beginner to Advanced cover

269. Radio Theory Handbook - Beginner to Advanced

by Ron Bertrand

How Radio Signals Work cover

270. How Radio Signals Work

by Jim Sinclair

Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices cover

271. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

by George Varghese

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Biochemistry cover

272. Biochemistry

by Reginald H. Garrett, Charles M. Grisham

Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science) cover

273. Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science)

by Steven S. Skiena, Miguel A. Revilla

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Algorithm Design cover

274. Algorithm Design

by Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos

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The Cryotron Files: The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer cover

275. The Cryotron Files: The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer

by Iain Dey, Douglas Buck

Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three cover

276. Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three

by Owen Tweedy

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

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

by Richard A. Burgess

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Gary Rost Bradski cover

278. Gary Rost Bradski

Introduction to the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System cover

279. Introduction to the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System

An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions cover

280. An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

by Peter J. Eccles

Overcoming Anxiety and Depression on the Autism Spectrum: A Self-help Guide Using CBT cover

281. Overcoming Anxiety and Depression on the Autism Spectrum: A Self-help Guide Using CBT

by Lee A. Wilkinson

Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid cover

282. Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier

Macroeconomics cover

283. Macroeconomics

by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts

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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

284. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Learning Perl 6 cover

285. Learning Perl 6

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

286. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

287. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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Basic Economics cover

288. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are cover

289. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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The Americans: The Democratic Experience cover

290. The Americans: The Democratic Experience

by Daniel J. Boorstin

Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

291. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) cover

292. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Eric H. Cline

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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief cover

293. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

by Clair Davies, Amber Davies

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Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind cover

294. Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind

by Dan Charnas

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Hack and HHVM cover

295. Hack and HHVM

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', 3rd Edition cover

296. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', 3rd Edition

by Sidney Dekker

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man cover

297. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

by Norah Vincent

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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

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

by Saifedean Ammous

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Bioinformatics Programming Using Python cover

299. Bioinformatics Programming Using Python

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics cover

300. Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

by James Tisdall