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The Best Books of Hacker News
Aug / Sep 2023

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 3 HN comments

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir

  Brian W Kernighan · 123 HN points · 15 HN comments

• Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

  William T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch · 4 HN comments

• A Life of One's Own

  Marion Milner, Rachel Bowby · 1 HN comments

• Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

  Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetic · 1 HN comments

• Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press)

  Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack · 1 HN comments
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• Industrial archaeology in Britain, (Pelican)

  R. A Buchanan · 1 HN comments

• Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move!

  Keith Peters · 1 HN comments

• Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages

  Randy M. Kaplan · 1 HN comments

• The Political Economy of Dictatorship

  Ronald Wintrobe · 2 HN comments

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

  William Zinsser · 28 HN comments

• It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age

  Bruce Balentine, Leslie Degler · 1 HN comments

• Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (New Directions in Social Psychology)

  Richard E. Nisbett, Dov Cohen · 3 HN comments

• LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the Groundbreaking Research of Oscar Janiger, M.D.

  Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Oscar Janiger, Rick Strassman · 4 HN comments

• The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

  Jonathan Rauch · 1 HN comments

• Altered Carbon

  Richard MORGAN · 1 HN comments

• The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

  Steven Kotler · 1 HN comments

• Supermoney

  Adam Smith · 1 HN comments

• IBM COBOL A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

  Gerardus Blokdyk · 1 HN comments

• Quick Start Training for IBM z/OS Application Developers, Volume 1

  Robert Wingate · 1 HN comments

• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

  Anand Giridharadas · 2 HN comments

• The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce Orsini, Diana Deming Cahill · 2 HN comments

• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

  Alfie Kohn · 8 HN comments

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

  David Allen, James Fallows · 3 HN comments

• How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

  Sönke Ahrens · 1 HN comments

• Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

  W. Godley, M. Lavoie · 1 HN comments

• Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System

  Chet Haase · 1 HN comments

• One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1

  Whitney Webb · 1 HN comments

• One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

  Whitney Alyse Webb · 1 HN comments

• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

  Dr. Dan Ariely · 17 HN comments