Hacker News Books for 2025

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Hacker News Books for 2025

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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China cover

1. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang

The Dabare Snake Launcher cover

2. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby

IPv6 Essentials cover

3. IPv6 Essentials

Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store cover

4. Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store

Bag in the Wind cover

5. Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser

The Man With the President's Mind cover

6. The Man With the President's Mind

United Nations: A History cover

7. United Nations: A History

by Stanley Meisler

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“A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide cover

8. “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

9. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

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Thought and Language - Revised Edition cover

10. Thought and Language - Revised Edition

by Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum cover

11. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

12. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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

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Ideology and Discontent cover

13. Ideology and Discontent

by David Ernest Apter

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America cover

14. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

by Lee Drutman

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All cover

15. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

16. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

17. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine

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Just Java™ 2 cover

18. Just Java™ 2

Beautiful Code cover

19. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships cover

20. Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

by Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson

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

21. 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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Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite cover

22. Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite

by A. A. Dornfeld, Tom Vickerman, Archibald Leckie

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? cover

24. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Learning From Data cover

25. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

26. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard Hamming

Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists cover

27. Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists

by Kimberley A. Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out cover

28. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

by Amanda Ripley

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX cover

29. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

30. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

31. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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2026 Farmers' Amanac cover

32. 2026 Farmers' Amanac

by Sondra Duncan

Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists cover

33. Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists

by Charles E. Till, Yoon Il Chang

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) cover

34. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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

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

by Tom DeMarco

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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson cover

36. Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

by Tom Sito

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

37. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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SVG Text Layout cover

38. SVG Text Layout

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SVG Essentials, 2nd Edition cover

39. SVG Essentials, 2nd Edition

by J. David Eisenberg. Amelia Bellamy-Royds

Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business cover

40. Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business

by Philip B. Crosby

AI Engineering cover

41. AI Engineering

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How to draw

42. How to draw "hands" that Takami Kagami teaches with all of his power: An overwhelming drawing style

by 加々美高浩

We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order cover

43. We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order

by Andrew L. Shapiro

The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

44. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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

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

by James C. Scott

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Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC cover

46. Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC

by Secor Glen

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

47. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

48. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

49. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition cover

50. The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform cover

51. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

by Patrick Henry Winston

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Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity cover

52. Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity

by The WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysts

Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438) cover

53. Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438)

by Grzegorz Bocewicz

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places cover

54. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

by Bernie Krause

Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

55. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least cover

56. Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen

Node: Up and Running cover

57. Node: Up and Running

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

58. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

59. Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by D.C. Hankerson, Gary Hoffman, D.A. Leonard, Charles C. Lindner, K.T. Phelps, C.A. Rodger, J.R. Wall

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine cover

60. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

by Rashid Khalidi

The Logic Of Sports Betting cover

61. The Logic Of Sports Betting

by Matthew Davidow, Ed Miller

How the Irish Became White cover

62. How the Irish Became White

by Noel Ignatiev

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes cover

63. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

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In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity cover

64. In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity

by Eamonn Fingleton

Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right cover

65. Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right

Designing Large Language Model Applications cover

66. Designing Large Language Model Applications

Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge cover

67. Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge

Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations cover

68. Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations

by David E. Rumelhart

Semantic Information Processing cover

69. Semantic Information Processing

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

70. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life cover

71. Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life

by Brent Gleeson

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Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings cover

72. Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

by Ben Shapiro

Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling cover

73. Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling

by Meathead Goldwyn

A Philosophy of Software Design cover

74. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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The End of Error cover

75. The End of Error

by John L. Gustafson

ABCs of Programming cover

76. ABCs of Programming

by Arthur Johnston, Madison Johnston

The Possible Human : A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities cover

77. The Possible Human : A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities

by Jean Houston

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives cover

78. The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

by David B. Yaden, Andrew Newberg

Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading cover

79. Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading

by Brad Hutchins

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry cover

80. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff

Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference cover

81. Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference

by Cameron Davidson-Pilon

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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media cover

82. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

83. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) cover

84. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

by John Torpey

The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President cover

85. The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President

by George H. W. Bush

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy cover

86. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

by Matt Stoller

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

87. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks cover

88. Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer

101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners cover

89. 101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners

by George Moromisato

Microservices: A quick and simple definition cover

90. Microservices: A quick and simple definition

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

91. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

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Late-Talking Children cover

92. Late-Talking Children

by Thomas Sowell

The Absorbent Mind cover

93. The Absorbent Mind

by Maria Montessori

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage cover

94. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew

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Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever cover

95. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

by Joseph Cox

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

96. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

97. Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by P. R. Halmos

Exploring RANDOMNESS cover

98. Exploring RANDOMNESS

by Gregory J. Chaitin

How to Use a Breadboard! (Make: Handbook) cover

99. How to Use a Breadboard! (Make: Handbook)

by Sean Michael Ragan, Jody Culkin

ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic cover

100. ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic

by Alan Schwarz

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