Hacker News Books for 2025

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Hacker News Books for 2025

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2025.

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Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages: A Laboratory Based Approach cover

301. Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages: A Laboratory Based Approach

by Kenneth Slonneger, Barry L. Kurtz

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Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture cover

302. Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

by Rachel Rubin

A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West cover

303. A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West

by Ronald Asmus

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

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

by Steven E. Koonin

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sendmail, 4th Edition cover

305. sendmail, 4th Edition

by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro

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Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook cover

306. Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook

by Forrest Mims

PNG: The Definitive Guide cover

307. PNG: The Definitive Guide

Jews Don’t Count cover

308. Jews Don’t Count

by David Baddiel

ScratchJr Coding Cards: Creative Coding Activities cover

309. ScratchJr Coding Cards: Creative Coding Activities

by Marina Umaschi Bers, Amanda Sullivan

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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune cover

310. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

by Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution – A Groundbreaking Narrative of Galileo, Newton, and the Birth of Modernity cover

311. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution – A Groundbreaking Narrative of Galileo, Newton, and the Birth of Modernity

by David Wootton

KELLY CAPITAL GROWTH INVESTMENT CRITERION, THE: THEORY AND PRACTICE (World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics) cover

312. KELLY CAPITAL GROWTH INVESTMENT CRITERION, THE: THEORY AND PRACTICE (World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics)

by Leonard C. MacLean, Edward O. Thorp, William T. Ziemba

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

313. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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How to Fix Copyright cover

314. How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry

The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

315. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Mind Games cover

316. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme

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Build your own laser, phaser, ion ray gun & other working space-age projects cover

317. Build your own laser, phaser, ion ray gun & other working space-age projects

by Robert E. Iannini

High Performance Python, 2nd Edition cover

318. High Performance Python, 2nd Edition

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

319. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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The Intentional Makerspace: Operations cover

320. The Intentional Makerspace: Operations

by Dale Grover, Tom Root

README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines cover

321. README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines

by W. Patrick Mccray

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah cover

322. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

Replay cover

323. Replay

by Ken Grimwood

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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy cover

324. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D

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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson cover

325. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris

Physical Principles in Sensing and Signaling: With an Introduction to Modeling in Biology cover

326. Physical Principles in Sensing and Signaling: With an Introduction to Modeling in Biology

by Robert G. Endres

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

327. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)

by Peter Wohlleben

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The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame cover

328. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame

by Mike Wilson

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C# 12 in a Nutshell cover

329. C# 12 in a Nutshell

The 120 Year Diet: How to Double Your Vital Years cover

330. The 120 Year Diet: How to Double Your Vital Years

by Roy L. Walford

Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three (Simplified Chinese Version) (Chinese Edition) cover

331. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three (Simplified Chinese Version) (Chinese Edition)

by 习近平

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity cover

332. More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker

Kubernetes Operators: Automating the Container Orchestration Platform cover

333. Kubernetes Operators: Automating the Container Orchestration Platform

by Jason Dobies, Joshua Wood

Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition cover

334. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb

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Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) cover

335. Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

by Sebastian Raschka

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DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model cover

336. DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

by Jeremy Keith, Jeffrey Sambells

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CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web cover

337. CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer

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Definitive Xml Schema cover

338. Definitive Xml Schema

by Priscilla Walmsley

Radar Trends - O’Reilly cover

339. Radar Trends - O’Reilly

LLM Engineer's Handbook cover

340. LLM Engineer's Handbook

by PAUL. LABONNE IUSZTIN (MAXIME. VESA, ALEX.), Maxime Labonne, Alex Vesa

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

341. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters cover

342. The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters

by Ben H. Bagdikian

The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death cover

343. The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

by Dick Teresi

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

344. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

345. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

346. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle cover

347. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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Code Complete cover

348. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

349. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Codes and Villains and Mystery: The Best Stories with Codes and Ciphers 1843 - 1920 cover

350. Codes and Villains and Mystery: The Best Stories with Codes and Ciphers 1843 - 1920

by John Dooley

Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives cover

351. Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

by Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu

Beautiful Fighting Girl cover

352. Beautiful Fighting Girl

by Tamaki Saitō, Keith Vincent, Dawn Lawson, Hiroki Azuma

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse cover

353. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

by Mary Ann Glendon

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Practical Time Series Analysis cover

354. Practical Time Series Analysis

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself cover

355. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

by David McRaney

COMPUTER ARITHMETIC - VOLUME I cover

356. COMPUTER ARITHMETIC - VOLUME I

by Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr.

Time Management for System Administrators cover

357. Time Management for System Administrators

by Tom Limoncelli

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The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History cover

358. The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History

by Andrew G. Huff

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The End of Programming as We Know It cover

359. The End of Programming as We Know It

Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) cover

360. Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

by John McWhorter

Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy cover

361. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

by Bill Gates

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Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: Amway Motivational Organizations cover

362. Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: Amway Motivational Organizations

by Ruth Carter

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel cover

363. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

by Stephen Budiansky

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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) cover

364. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Neal Stephenson

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure cover

365. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk

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Leading Effective Engineering Teams cover

366. Leading Effective Engineering Teams

Beyond Vibe Coding cover

367. Beyond Vibe Coding

Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs cover

368. Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs

by Ronald M. Baecker, Aaron Marcus

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The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life cover

369. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life

by Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

370. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators cover

371. The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

by Richard Williams

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