Hacker News Books for 2024

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Hacker News Books for 2024

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2024.

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High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition cover

101. High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

102. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

103. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

104. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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RESTful Web Clients cover

105. RESTful Web Clients

by Mike Amundsen

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Software Engineering at Google cover

106. Software Engineering at Google

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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition cover

107. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition

by Alice Miller

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Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing cover

108. Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing

by Dor Mullen

Understanding Software Dynamics cover

109. Understanding Software Dynamics

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Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control cover

110. Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control

by Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz

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Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials cover

111. Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology) cover

112. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

by Peter D. Norton

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The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence cover

113. The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence

by J. Marshall Unger

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

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition cover

115. Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg

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Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life – A Harvard Professor's Guide to Innovation and Unconventional Success cover

116. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life – A Harvard Professor's Guide to Innovation and Unconventional Success

by Francesca Gino

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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch cover

117. The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

by Thomas Thwaites

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Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company cover

118. Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company

by Doug Dayton

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Learning Helm cover

119. Learning Helm

Head First PHP & MySQL cover

120. Head First PHP & MySQL

by Lynn Beighley

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War cover

121. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

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Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core cover

122. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

by Jonathan Levin

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

123. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future cover

124. Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

by John Willis

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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) cover

125. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

by Clayton M. Christensen

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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book) cover

126. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book)

by Babette Rothschild

A Gentle Introduction to Optimization cover

127. A Gentle Introduction to Optimization

by B. Guenin, J. Könemann, L. Tunçel

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Have Fun at Work cover

128. Have Fun at Work

by William L. Livingston

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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing cover

129. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison

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States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics) cover

130. States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics)

by David L. Goodstein

High Performance Web Sites cover

131. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World cover

132. Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

by Patricia Crone

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大図解九龍城 cover

133. 大図解九龍城

by 可児弘明

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

134. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

135. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation cover

136. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent cover

137. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent

by Justin Brooks

Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions cover

138. Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

by Mark Godsey

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong cover

139. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

by Brandon L. Garrett

Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack cover

140. Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

by W. T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch

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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration cover

141. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp cover

142. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity cover

143. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber, David Wengrow

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Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang cover

144. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

by Richard O'Kane

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization cover

145. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

by Ed Conway

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone cover

146. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

by Brian McCullough

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win cover

147. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

by Steve Blank

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Tidy First? cover

148. Tidy First?

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C++ Concurrency in Action cover

149. C++ Concurrency in Action

by Anthony Williams

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SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition cover

150. SQL Pocket Guide, 4th Edition

by Alice Zhao

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The Dalai Lama Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from His Holiness (Little Book. Big Idea.) cover

151. The Dalai Lama Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from His Holiness (Little Book. Big Idea.)

by Travis Hellstrom

The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) cover

152. The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)

by Carl Christian Erhard Schmid

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit cover

153. The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

by Marina Krakovsky

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

154. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series) cover

155. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series)

by Aristotle, Joe Sachs

Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale cover

156. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale

by Rick Page

Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) cover

157. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)

by Pete Jordan

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

158. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual cover

159. Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

The Great Wall Street Scandal cover

160. The Great Wall Street Scandal

by Raymond L. Dirks, Leonard Gross

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future cover

161. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health cover

163. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health

by Robert H. Lustig

Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch cover

164. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

by Nora Sandler

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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw cover

165. One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

by Witold Rybczynski

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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas cover

166. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

by Roger Crowley

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C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide: First Edition cover

167. C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide: First Edition

by Nicolai M. Josuttis

To Mock a Mockingbird cover

168. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care cover

169. Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care

by Harry Edward Frech (III)

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Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card cover

170. Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card

by Frederick Hillier

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Motel of the Mysteries cover

172. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms cover

173. Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms

On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

174. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition cover

175. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition

by John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones, Mike Jones

Electrostatics: Exploring, Controlling and Using Static Electricity/Includes the Dirod Manual cover

176. Electrostatics: Exploring, Controlling and Using Static Electricity/Includes the Dirod Manual

by Arthur Dearth Moore

A short history of the O'Reilly animals cover

177. A short history of the O'Reilly animals

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High Output Management cover

178. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

179. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau

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Victory: An Island Tale (Penguin Classics) cover

180. Victory: An Island Tale (Penguin Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Mission Of Gravity cover

181. Mission Of Gravity

by Hal Clement

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism cover

182. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

by Clara E. Mattei

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Database Design and Implementation: Second Edition (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) cover

183. Database Design and Implementation: Second Edition (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

by Edward Sciore

Fluent C cover

184. Fluent C

Loners cover

185. Loners

by Sula Wolff

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Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media cover

186. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media

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Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition cover

187. Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition

by Marc J. Rochkind

Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods cover

188. Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods

by Katherine Liang Chew

Being And Event cover

189. Being And Event

by Alain Badiou

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

190. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science) cover

191. Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science)

by Peter William Frey

The Dark cover

192. The Dark

by Lemony Snicket

Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

193. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley

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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past cover

194. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

by David Reich

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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

195. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović

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Finite and Infinite Games cover

196. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat cover

197. Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

by Harvey Levenstein

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More cover

198. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer, MD

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between cover

199. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

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The Dream Machine cover

200. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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