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Hacker News Books for 2026
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2026.
Showing 1 - 12 of 12 books
1. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD
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2. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle
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3. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
by Byron Tau
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4. Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond
by Steve Yegge, Gene Kim
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5. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
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6. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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7. Learn Basic Now
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8. Honeybee Democracy
by Thomas D. Seeley
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9. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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10. 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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11. Finite State Morphology
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12. Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things
by Robert Frenay
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