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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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

101. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

102. 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

103. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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

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

by Alice Miller

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Software Engineering at Google cover

105. Software Engineering at Google

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Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing cover

106. Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing

by Dor Mullen

Understanding Software Dynamics cover

107. Understanding Software Dynamics

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

108. 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

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

by Peter D. Norton

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Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition cover

110. Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg

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

111. 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

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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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

113. 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

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

by Thomas Thwaites

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Learning Helm cover

115. Learning Helm

Head First PHP & MySQL cover

116. Head First PHP & MySQL

by Lynn Beighley

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

117. 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

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

by Babette Rothschild

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

119. 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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A Gentle Introduction to Optimization cover

120. A Gentle Introduction to Optimization

by B. Guenin, J. Könemann, L. Tunçel

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

121. 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

122. States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics)

by David L. Goodstein

High Performance Web Sites cover

123. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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

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

by Patricia Crone

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大図解九龍城 cover

125. 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

126. 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

127. 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

128. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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

129. 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

130. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

by Brandon L. Garrett

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

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

by Justin Brooks

Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration cover

132. 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

133. 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

134. 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

135. 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

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

by Ed Conway

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone cover

137. 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

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

by Steve Blank

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Tidy First? cover

139. Tidy First?

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C++ Concurrency in Action cover

140. C++ Concurrency in Action

by Anthony Williams

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

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

by Clara E. Mattei

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering cover

142. Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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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

143. 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

144. 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

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

by Marina Krakovsky

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

146. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

147. 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

148. 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

149. 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

150. 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

151. 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

152. Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

The Great Wall Street Scandal cover

153. The Great Wall Street Scandal

by Raymond L. Dirks, Leonard Gross

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

154. 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

155. 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

156. 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

157. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

by Roger Crowley

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

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

by Nicolai M. Josuttis

To Mock a Mockingbird cover

159. To Mock a Mockingbird

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care cover

160. Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care

by Harry Edward Frech (III)

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Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card cover

161. Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card

by Frederick Hillier

Motel of the Mysteries cover

162. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms cover

163. Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms

On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

164. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition cover

165. 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

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

by Arthur Dearth Moore

A short history of the O'Reilly animals cover

167. A short history of the O'Reilly animals

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High Output Management cover

168. 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

169. 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

170. Victory: An Island Tale (Penguin Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Mission Of Gravity cover

171. Mission Of Gravity

by Hal Clement

Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals cover

172. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals

by Hiroki Azuma

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

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

by Edward Sciore

Fluent C cover

174. Fluent C

Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition cover

175. Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition

by Marc J. Rochkind

Tales of the Teahouse Retold: Investiture of the Gods cover

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

by Katherine Liang Chew

Being And Event cover

177. Being And Event

by Alain Badiou

Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media cover

178. Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media

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

179. 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

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

by Peter William Frey

The Dark cover

181. The Dark

by Lemony Snicket

Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

182. 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

183. 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

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

185. 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

186. 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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The Dream Machine cover

187. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self cover

188. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self

by Rodolfo R Llin's

What Makes it Go cover

189. What Makes it Go

by Joe Kaufman

The Machinery of Life cover

190. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell

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The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company cover

191. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

by Steve Blank, Steven Gary Blank, Bob Dorf

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

192. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1) cover

193. Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, Book 1)

by Jim Butcher

The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film cover

194. The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film

by J. W. Rinzler

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Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving

195. Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects (Yourdon Computing Series)

by Edward Yourdon

The Solution Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Application Exercises, Templates and Scripts for Effective Sales Execution cover

196. The Solution Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Application Exercises, Templates and Scripts for Effective Sales Execution

by Keith M. Eades, James N. Touchstone, Timothy T. Sullivan

The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800 cover

197. The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

by Wayne E. Lee

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

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

by Tom DeMarco

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Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition cover

199. Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition

by Mike McShaffry, David Graham

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SPIN Selling cover

200. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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