Hacker News Books for 2023

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Hacker News Books for 2023

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2023.

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1. I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment

2. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company

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3. Bicycling Science, fourth edition (The MIT Press)

4. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

5. Technology and Social Shock

6. Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution

7. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

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8. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

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9. Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News

10. Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica

11. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

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12. How Innovation Works

13. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

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

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15. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

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16. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

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17. Gouverner la France

18. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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19. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (Studies in Jewish History)

20. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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21. The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation

22. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

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23. Les fous du son

24. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition

25. Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects (Pop Science and Photography Gift Book, How Things Work Book)

26. The Racial Contract

27. Statistical Inference

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28. Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk

29. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning

30. Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study (Yale Nota Bene S)

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31. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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32. How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

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33. How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics

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34. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality

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35. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

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36. Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

37. Relax and Win

38. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

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39. Thinking, Fast and Slow

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40. Tales from The Mos Eisley Cantina (Star Wars)

41. Mathematics Form and Function

42. A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books on Mathematics)

43. C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading

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44. The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child's Sleep

45. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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46. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

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47. Amiga C for Advanced Programmers (Abacus Amiga Books, Vol 11)

48. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)

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49. The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America

50. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

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

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52. Object-Oriented Assembly Language

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

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54. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

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55. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

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56. Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World

57. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

58. In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Routledge Classics)

59. The Conquest of Happiness

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60. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

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61. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

62. Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea

63. Professional Cookery

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64. Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face

65. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs: 100+ Recipes that You'll Love to Cook and Eat

66. The Problem with Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (Mit Press)

67. The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

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68. Silences

69. Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

70. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition

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71. The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition

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72. The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

73. All the Math You Missed

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74. Python Distilled (Developer's Library)

75. Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows: The Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics

76. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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77. Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers: Solve Business Problems That Can't Be Solved Algorithmically

78. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food

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

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80. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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81. Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Small Business Owners

82. World Order

83. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

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84. 500 Lines or Less

85. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

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86. NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual - 1977 onwards (VGR77-1 to VGR77-3, including Pioneer 10 & 11): An insight into the history, technology, ... sent to study the outer planets and beyond

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

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88. Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change

89. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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90. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

91. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

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92. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

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

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94. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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95. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

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96. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

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97. Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques: The Indispensable Reference Demonstrates Over 700 Illustrated Techniques with 2,000 Photos and 200 Recipes

98. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

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99. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

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100. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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