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The Best Books of Hacker News
Jan / Feb 2021

• Turn Left at Orion (Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them)

  Guy Consolmagno · 1 HN comments

• The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

  Neil Strauss · 7 HN comments

• Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes: Step-by-Step Activities for Discovery (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

  Michael Gainer · 1 HN comments

• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

  Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron · 11 HN comments

• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (The ParentData Series)

  Emily Oster · 1 HN comments

• Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations

  Tomoko Fuse · 1 HN comments
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• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

  George Dyson · 5 HN comments

• Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

  Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith · 5 HN comments

• Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places

  Derek M. Powazek · 2 HN comments

• Literate Programming (Lecture Notes)

  Donald E. Knuth · 1 HN comments

• The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

  Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, Seamus Heaney · 1 HN comments

• Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

  Joe Studwell · 1 HN comments

• Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems, Second Edition

  Chris Hobbs · 1 HN comments

• Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada

  John W. McCormick, Frank Singhoff, Jérôme Hugues · 3 HN comments

• Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

  John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin · 4 HN comments

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Steve Blank · 14 HN comments

• Practical Theory: Complete, Spiral-Bound Book

  Sandy Feldstein · 1 HN comments

• Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy

  The School of Life, Anna Doherty, Alain de Botton · 1 HN comments

• The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

  Jamis Buck · 1 HN comments

• A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

  Jack Schneider, Jennifer Berkshire · 1 HN comments

• Witness: The Story of a Search (The Collected Works of J.G. Bennett) (Volume 7)

  J. G. Bennett · 1 HN comments

• Rework

  Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 1 HN points · 4 HN comments

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

  Timothy Ferriss · 12 HN comments

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

  Don Norman · 13 HN comments

• Siddhartha: A Novel

  Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner · 2 HN comments

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

  Walter Isaacson · 34 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World)

  Cal Newport · 22 HN comments

• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - Clean Edition

  David Goggins · 1 HN comments

• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

  Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1 HN comments

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

  Don Miguel Ruiz · 5 HN comments