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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 21, 2022 - Nov 28, 2022

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A Life of One's Own cover

1. A Life of One's Own

by Marion Milner

Winning the Games Scientists Play cover

2. Winning the Games Scientists Play

by Carl Sindermann

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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control cover

3. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell

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The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm cover

4. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm

by Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships cover

5. Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

by Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

6. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

7. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

8. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Industrial archaeology in Britain, (Pelican) cover

9. Industrial archaeology in Britain, (Pelican)

by Robert Angus Buchanan

Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! cover

10. Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move!

by Keith Peters

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN 6TH EDITION cover

11. COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN 6TH EDITION

Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

12. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press) cover

13. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press)

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

Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0 cover

14. Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetić

Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present cover

15. Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present

by Jay Robert Nash

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The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer cover

16. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

by Steven Kotler

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

17. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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Bin Chicken cover

18. Bin Chicken

by Kate Temple, Jol Temple

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers cover

19. Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

by Jan Gullberg

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Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty cover

20. Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

by C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors

The Three Treasures: An Exploration of Jing 精, Qi 氣 and Shen 神 Focusing on Huangdi Neijing cover

21. The Three Treasures: An Exploration of Jing 精, Qi 氣 and Shen 神 Focusing on Huangdi Neijing

The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland cover

22. The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland

by Robert Gilmore, Marc Lefranc

Hip Pressure Cooking: Fast, Fresh, and Flavorful cover

23. Hip Pressure Cooking: Fast, Fresh, and Flavorful

by Laura D.A. Pazzaglia

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing cover

24. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry

Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth cover

25. Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

by Marc Lavoie, Wynne Godley

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters cover

26. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

by Abigail Shrier

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Altered Carbon cover

27. Altered Carbon

by Richard K. Morgan

Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack cover

28. Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

by W. T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch

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It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age cover

29. It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age

by Bruce Balentine

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

30. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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