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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 22, 2021 - Nov 29, 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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The Gun that Changed the World cover

2. The Gun that Changed the World

by Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

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

by Fridtjof Siebert

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Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge cover

4. Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge

by Ed Regis

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Colonies in Space: A Comprehensive and Factual Account of the Prospects for Human Colonization of Space (Stackpole Classics) cover

5. Colonies in Space: A Comprehensive and Factual Account of the Prospects for Human Colonization of Space (Stackpole Classics)

by T. A. Heppenheimer

Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science cover

6. Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science

by John W. Harris, Horst Stöcker

Dark Matter: A Novel cover

7. Dark Matter: A Novel

by Blake Crouch

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Gravitation cover

8. Gravitation

by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler

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Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story cover

9. Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

by Julie K. Brown

Mao: Die Biographie cover

10. Mao: Die Biographie

by Alexander V. Pantsov, Stephen I. Levine

Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest (Ruth Kirk Book) cover

11. Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest (Ruth Kirk Book)

by David Alexander Berger

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 Volume Set) cover

12. The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 Volume Set)

by Jacqueline L. Longe

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

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

by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

14. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) cover

15. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

by George Varghese

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The Great Hedge of India (Quest for One of the Lost Wonders of the World) cover

16. The Great Hedge of India (Quest for One of the Lost Wonders of the World)

by Roy Moxham

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

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

by Lee A. Wilkinson

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

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

by Will Schutz

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

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

by Peter J. Eccles

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

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

by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

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xchg rax,rax cover

21. xchg rax,rax

by Xorpd

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

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

by Carl Miller

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

23. 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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Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists cover

24. Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

by Edward Scheinerman

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Corporations (Examples & Explanations) cover

26. Corporations (Examples & Explanations)

by Alan R. Palmiter

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Applied Algorithms and Data Structures) cover

27. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Applied Algorithms and Data Structures)

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

28. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy von Bitter Rucker

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A Cache of Jewels: And Other Collective Nouns (World of Language) cover

29. A Cache of Jewels: And Other Collective Nouns (World of Language)

by Ruth Heller

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

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

by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein

What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (English and Japanese Edition) cover

31. What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (English and Japanese Edition)

by 石川馨

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Introduction to 64 Bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Linux cover

32. Introduction to 64 Bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Linux

by Ray Seyfarth

Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

33. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

34. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

35. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Basic Economics cover

36. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III cover

37. Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III

by Caroline Rose

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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change cover

38. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

by William R. Catton

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