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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Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts cover

301. Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts

by Vladimir Arkhipov

Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics) cover

302. Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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The Art of Readable Code cover

303. The Art of Readable Code

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See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

304. See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Dominic Sweetman

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Building an Anonymization Pipeline cover

305. Building an Anonymization Pipeline

by Luk Arbuckle, Khaled Emam

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

306. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne

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Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time cover

307. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright

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Badass: Making Users Awesome cover

308. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

309. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

310. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer

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How China Escaped Shock Therapy (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy) cover

311. How China Escaped Shock Therapy (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)

by Isabella Weber

Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs, Series Number 5) cover

312. Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs, Series Number 5)

by Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie

The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time cover

313. The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time

by Marshall McLuhan

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Larry Wall cover

314. Larry Wall

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe cover

315. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

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Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you've never heard of cover

316. Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you've never heard of

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Principles: Life and Work cover

317. Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

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High Output Management cover

318. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life cover

319. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

320. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications cover

321. The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

by Rick Battagline

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

322. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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The Elements of Graphing Data cover

323. The Elements of Graphing Data

by William S. Cleveland

Visualizing Data cover

324. Visualizing Data

by William S. Cleveland

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Perl Best Practices cover

325. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway

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Who cover

326. Who

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street

Should I Stay Or Go? : How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage cover

327. Should I Stay Or Go? : How Controlled Separation (CS) Can Save Your Marriage

by Lee Raffel

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist cover

328. Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist

by Ramani S. Durvasula, Ph.D

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

329. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G Malkiel

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Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition cover

330. Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition

by Steven F. Lott

Seveneves: A Novel cover

331. Seveneves: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

Brain Computations: What and How cover

332. Brain Computations: What and How

by Edmund T. Rolls

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Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (Mathematics, Finance and Risk) cover

333. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (Mathematics, Finance and Risk)

by Álvaro Cartea, Sebastian Jaimungal, José Penalva

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

334. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic cover

335. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

by Sam Quinones

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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You cover

336. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo

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In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters cover

337. In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters

by Jon Larsen

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy cover

338. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton

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Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe cover

339. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

by Bernardo Kastrup

Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa cover

340. Oil's Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa

by Kevin Taft

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos cover

341. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

342. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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How I Invest My Money: Finance experts reveal how they save, spend, and invest cover

343. How I Invest My Money: Finance experts reveal how they save, spend, and invest

by Brian Portnoy, Joshua Brown

Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World cover

344. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World

by George R. McGhee

Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1 cover

345. Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

346. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby cover

347. Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby

by Matthew Scarpino

The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab cover

348. The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab

by Carl Miller

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts cover

349. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad cover

350. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

by Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise cover

351. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson

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Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

352. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson

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Tragic Design cover

353. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond cover

354. Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

by Judith S. Beck

A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living cover

355. A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living

by Kapil Gupta

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness cover

356. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

by Eric Jorgenson

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones cover

357. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

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Benjamin Franklin cover

358. Benjamin Franklin

by Edmund Sears Morgan

The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics) cover

359. The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics)

by Benjamin Franklin

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

360. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 cover

361. Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945

by Alfred Price

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library) cover

362. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Sydney Padua

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't cover

363. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

by Julia Galef

The Ashley Book of Knots cover

364. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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The Red Book (Philemon) cover

365. The Red Book (Philemon)

by Carl G. Jung

The New Turing Omnibus cover

366. The New Turing Omnibus

by A. K. Dewdney

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Creating Mind: How the Brain Works cover

367. Creating Mind: How the Brain Works

by John E. Dowling

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The Society of Mind cover

368. The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

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Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality cover

369. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

by Ronald L. Mallett, Bruce B. Henderson

The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (American Made Music Series) cover

370. The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (American Made Music Series)

by Peter C. Zimmerman

John Von Neumann Collected Works (6 Volume Set) cover

371. John Von Neumann Collected Works (6 Volume Set)

by A. H Taub

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

372. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

373. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse

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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) cover

374. Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

by George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy, Duncan Coombe

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

375. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage cover

376. Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage

by Trey Sunderland

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All cover

377. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger

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OSCON 2015: Video Compilation cover

378. OSCON 2015: Video Compilation

The Wisdom of Crowds cover

379. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

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Dreamland cover

380. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS: Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names cover

381. Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS: Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

by Mark Jeftovic

The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History cover

382. The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

by Ashley Rindsberg

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension cover

383. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

by Matt Parker

Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies cover

384. Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

by Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

385. Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (Signet Classics) cover

386. Les Miserables (Signet Classics)

by Victor Hugo

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment cover

387. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

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xchg rax,rax cover

388. xchg rax,rax

by Xorpd

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Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident cover

389. Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Revised and Updated Edition: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident

by Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin, MA, Roslyn Ann Duffy

Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity cover

390. Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity

by James B. Hartle

A Guide to Rational Living cover

391. A Guide to Rational Living

by Albert Ellis, Robert Allan Harper

Concurrency in Go cover

392. Concurrency in Go

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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Git Pocket Guide cover

393. Git Pocket Guide

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Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition cover

394. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition

by Robert Sedgewick

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The Garbage Collection Handbook (

395. The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Technology Strategy Patterns cover

396. Technology Strategy Patterns

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

397. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy von Bitter Rucker

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Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims cover

398. Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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Looking Out for #1: How to Get from Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be in Life cover

400. Looking Out for #1: How to Get from Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be in Life

by Robert Ringer