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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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition cover

301. PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon cover

302. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

by William D. Cohan

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

303. 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

304. 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

305. 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

306. 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

307. sendmail, 4th Edition

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

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Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook cover

308. Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook

by Forrest Mims

PNG: The Definitive Guide cover

309. PNG: The Definitive Guide

Jews Don’t Count cover

310. Jews Don’t Count

by David Baddiel

ScratchJr Coding Cards: Creative Coding Activities cover

311. 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

312. 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

313. 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

314. 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

315. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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How to Fix Copyright cover

316. How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry

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

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

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Mind Games cover

318. Mind Games

by Richard Thieme

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

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

by Robert E. Iannini

High Performance Python, 2nd Edition cover

320. High Performance Python, 2nd Edition

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

321. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

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The Intentional Makerspace: Operations cover

322. The Intentional Makerspace: Operations

by Dale Grover, Tom Root

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

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

by W. Patrick Mccray

Replay cover

324. Replay

by Ken Grimwood

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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah cover

325. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

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

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

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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

327. 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

328. 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

329. 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

330. 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

331. C# 12 in a Nutshell

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

332. 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

333. 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

334. 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

335. Kubernetes Operators: Automating the Container Orchestration Platform

by Jason Dobies, Joshua Wood

Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition cover

336. 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

337. 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

338. 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

339. CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer

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Definitive Xml Schema cover

340. Definitive Xml Schema

by Priscilla Walmsley

Radar Trends - O’Reilly cover

341. Radar Trends - O’Reilly

LLM Engineer's Handbook cover

342. LLM Engineer's Handbook

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

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

343. 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

344. 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

345. 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

346. 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

347. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

348. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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

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

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

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Code Complete cover

350. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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

351. 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

352. 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

353. Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

by Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse cover

354. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

by Mary Ann Glendon

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Beautiful Fighting Girl cover

355. Beautiful Fighting Girl

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

Practical Time Series Analysis cover

356. 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

357. 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

358. COMPUTER ARITHMETIC - VOLUME I

by Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr.

Time Management for System Administrators cover

359. 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

360. 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

361. The End of Programming as We Know It

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

362. 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

363. 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

364. Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: Amway Motivational Organizations

by Ruth Carter

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

365. 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

366. 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

367. 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

368. Leading Effective Engineering Teams

Beyond Vibe Coding cover

369. Beyond Vibe Coding

Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs cover

370. 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

371. 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

372. 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

373. 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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