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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The Cult of Mac cover

1. The Cult of Mac

by Leander Kahney

Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World cover

2. 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

3. 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

4. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

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Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition) cover

5. Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition)

by 西村博之

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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

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

Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov cover

8. Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov

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

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

by Katie Herzog

The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

by Marjorie Priceman

The VimL Primer cover

14. The VimL Primer

by Benjamin Klein

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

15. 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

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

by Mar Hicks

The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2) cover

17. The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)

by Venkatesh Rao

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

18. 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

19. Operating Systems Design and Implementation

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ cover

20. Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ

by Giulia Enders

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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance cover

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

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

by Sam Newman

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

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

by Jessica Livingston

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What's the Matter with Kansas? cover

26. What's the Matter with Kansas?

by Thomas Frank

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition cover

27. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

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Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition cover

28. Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition

by AEleen Frisch

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Lao-tzu's Taoteching cover

29. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi

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

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

by Steve Yegge, Gene Kim

Colossus cover

31. Colossus

by D. F. Jones

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library cover

32. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

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

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

by Sam Sifton

50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography cover

34. 50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography

by Jim West, harvoa Staff

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

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

by Eric Hoffer

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Ultrasound Causation for Microcephaly and Zika Virus, The Hypothesis (Part A) cover

36. Ultrasound Causation for Microcephaly and Zika Virus, The Hypothesis (Part A)

by Jim West

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The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027 cover

37. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027

by Central Intelligence Agency

CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation cover

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

by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon cover

39. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

by Steven Rinella

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Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming cover

40. Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming

Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin cover

41. Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Hobbitten. Eller Ud og hjem igen cover

42. Hobbitten. Eller Ud og hjem igen

Tartine Bread cover

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

49. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins

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Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game cover

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

by Touraj Parang

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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

by Matthew Hollis

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

55. 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

56. The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026

by Central Intelligence Agency

The Voyage of the Space Beagle cover

57. The Voyage of the Space Beagle

by A. E. van Vogt

Designing Interactions (Mit Press) cover

58. Designing Interactions (Mit Press)

by Bill Moggridge

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

59. 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

60. 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

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

by Mark Sanborn

Coolidge cover

62. Coolidge

by Amity Shlaes

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The Physics of Sorrow cover

63. The Physics of Sorrow

by Georgi Gospodinov

Learn Basic Now cover

64. Learn Basic Now

by Michael Halvorson, David Rygmyr

Honeybee Democracy cover

65. Honeybee Democracy

by Thomas D. Seeley

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

66. 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

67. 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

68. Introduction to Fourier Optics

by Joseph W. Goodman

Finite State Morphology cover

69. Finite State Morphology

by Kenneth R. Beesley, Lauri Karttunen

Great Planning Disasters cover

70. Great Planning Disasters

by Peter Hall

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

71. 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

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

by B. Alan Wallace