Hacker News Books for 2026

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Hacker News Books for 2026

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2026.

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Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World cover

1. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge

The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort cover

2. The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort

by Roy Eskapa, Roy D. Eskapa

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America cover

3. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

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Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition) cover

4. Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition)

by 西村博之

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava cover

5. Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava

Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov cover

6. Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov

Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol cover

7. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol

by Katie Herzog

The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

8. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson

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Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers cover

9. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD

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After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul cover

10. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

by Tripp Mickle

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books) cover

11. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)

by Marjorie Priceman

The VimL Primer cover

12. The VimL Primer

by Benjamin Klein

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy cover

13. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

by Vladik Khononov

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) cover

14. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)

by Mar Hicks

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State cover

15. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

by Byron Tau

Operating Systems Design and Implementation cover

16. Operating Systems Design and Implementation

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance cover

17. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

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Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication cover

18. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication

by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith cover

20. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

by Sam Newman

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

21. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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What's the Matter with Kansas? cover

22. What's the Matter with Kansas?

by Thomas Frank

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Lao-tzu's Taoteching cover

23. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi

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Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond cover

24. Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

by Steve Yegge, Gene Kim

Colossus cover

25. Colossus

by D. F. Jones

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library cover

26. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook] cover

27. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]

by Sam Sifton

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) cover

28. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

by Eric Hoffer

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The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027 cover

29. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027

by Central Intelligence Agency

CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation cover

30. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation

by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon cover

31. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

by Steven Rinella

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Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming cover

32. Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming

Tartine Bread cover

33. Tartine Bread

by Chad Robertson

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Sharp: The Definitive Introduction to Knives, Sharpening, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs cover

34. Sharp: The Definitive Introduction to Knives, Sharpening, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs

by Josh Donald

Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint cover

35. Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint

by Ivan Orkin, Chris Ying

The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes cover

36. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes

by James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, Tara Duggan

Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry cover

37. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle

Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD cover

38. Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD

by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

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Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game cover

39. Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game

by Touraj Parang

The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games) cover

40. The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games)

by Matt Tagliaferri

Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams cover

41. Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams

by Oliver Byrne

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships cover

42. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes

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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem cover

43. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

by Matthew Hollis

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

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

by Nora Sandler

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The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026 cover

45. The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026

by Central Intelligence Agency

The Voyage of the Space Beagle cover

46. The Voyage of the Space Beagle

by A. E. van Vogt

Exotic Options and Hybrids: A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading (The Wiley Finance Series) cover

47. Exotic Options and Hybrids: A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading (The Wiley Finance Series)

by Mohamed Bouzoubaa, Adel Osseiran

The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (A Harvest Special) cover

48. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (A Harvest Special)

by T. S. Eliot

The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary cover

49. The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

by Mark Sanborn

Coolidge cover

50. Coolidge

by Amity Shlaes

The Physics of Sorrow cover

51. The Physics of Sorrow

by Georgi Gospodinov

Learn Basic Now cover

52. Learn Basic Now

by Michael Halvorson, David Rygmyr

Honeybee Democracy cover

53. Honeybee Democracy

by Thomas D. Seeley

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

54. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone cover

55. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols

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Introduction to Fourier Optics cover

56. Introduction to Fourier Optics

by Joseph W. Goodman

Finite State Morphology cover

57. Finite State Morphology

by Kenneth R. Beesley, Lauri Karttunen

Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things cover

58. Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things

by Robert Frenay

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind cover

59. The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

by B. Alan Wallace