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The Best Books of Hacker News
All Time

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 72 HN comments

• Permanent Record

  Edward Snowden · 759 HN points · 0 HN comments

• Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (The MIT Press)

  Thomas H. Cormen · 55 HN comments

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

  Michael Feathers · 50 HN comments

• Go Programming Language, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

  Alan Donovan, Brian Kernighan · 413 HN points · 5 HN comments

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

  Robert C. Martin · 31 HN comments

• Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

  David Kadavy · 177 HN points · 23 HN comments

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

  Steven Gary Blank · 46 HN comments

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

  Martin Kleppmann · 33 HN comments

• Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

  Marshall McKusick, George Neville-Neil, Robert Watson · 284 HN points · 8 HN comments

• JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

  Douglas Crockford · 34 HN comments

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

  William B. Irvine · 3 HN points · 28 HN comments

• The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

  Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman · 31 HN comments

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

  Steve McConnell · 33 HN comments

• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

  Toby Segaran · 26 HN comments

• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

  Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken · 3 HN points · 33 HN comments

• C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie · 3 HN points · 36 HN comments

• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

  Cal Newport · 23 HN comments

• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

  Michael E. Gerber · 36 HN comments

• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

  Seymour A Papert · 28 HN comments

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

  William Zinsser · 28 HN comments

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

  Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, Albert R. Hibbs · 23 HN comments

• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

  Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister · 41 HN comments

• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

  Peter van der Linden · 3 HN points · 28 HN comments

• Why We Sleep (Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams)

  Matthew Walker · 25 HN comments

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

  Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig · 81 HN points · 16 HN comments

• How to Win Friends & Influence People

  Dale Carnegie · 20 HN comments

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

  Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Grady Booch · 24 HN comments

• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

  Peter Seibel · 21 HN comments

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

  Simon Singh · 18 HN comments