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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 13, 2021 - Sep 20, 2021

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The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer (ZX Design Retro Computer) cover

1. The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer (ZX Design Retro Computer)

by Chris Smith

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

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

by Nicole Perlroth

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Listen, Little Man! cover

3. Listen, Little Man!

by Wilhelm Reich

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit cover

5. More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

7. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents cover

8. The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents

by John Cecil Masterman

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War cover

9. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

by Robert M. Gates

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

10. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963 cover

11. The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

by David Horner

The Protest Years cover

12. The Protest Years

by John Blaxland

The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 cover

13. The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989

by John Blaxland, Rhys Crawley

Greener Pastures On Your Side Of The Fence: Better Farming With Voisin Management Intensive Grazing cover

14. Greener Pastures On Your Side Of The Fence: Better Farming With Voisin Management Intensive Grazing

by Bill Murphy

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win cover

15. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

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

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

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

by Steven E. Koonin

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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

18. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Federico Biancuzzi, Chromatic

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

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

by Peter Seibel

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IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage cover

20. IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage

by George Westerman, Richard Hunter

Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence cover

21. Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence

by Alex Roslin

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

22. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Caesaris Bellum Helveticum: Scriptores Antiqui Romani Imaginibus Ornati cover

23. Caesaris Bellum Helveticum: Scriptores Antiqui Romani Imaginibus Ornati

by Karl Heinz Graf Von Rothenburg, Walter Schmid

You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books) cover

24. You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books)

by Roger Hall

There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings cover

25. There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings

by Kenn Amdahl

Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition) cover

26. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition)

by Pavel Tsatsouline

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Bit-slice microprocessor design cover

27. Bit-slice microprocessor design

by John Mick, James Brick

Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 cover

28. Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14

by Scott Meyers

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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China cover

29. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

by Desmond Shum

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Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

30. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions

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The Warehouse: A Novel (202 POCHE) cover

31. The Warehouse: A Novel (202 POCHE)

by Rob Hart

Enter The Kettlebell!: Strength Secret of the Soviet Supermen cover

32. Enter The Kettlebell!: Strength Secret of the Soviet Supermen

by Pavel Tsatsouline

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

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

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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The Diversity Myth cover

34. The Diversity Myth

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

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