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The Best Books of Hacker News
2021

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

  Nadia Eghbal · 127 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 68 HN comments

• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

  Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 8 HN comments

• The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition

  Jordan Mechner · 3 HN comments

• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

  Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton · 8 HN comments

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 7 HN comments
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• The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Steve Blank · 14 HN comments

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

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

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

  David Epstein · 7 HN comments

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

  Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken · 3 HN comments

• The Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside

  Forrest Brazeal · 21 HN points · 1 HN comments

• The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

  Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman · 30 HN comments

• Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

  Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci · 1 HN points · 5 HN comments

• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

  Seymour A Papert · 27 HN comments

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir

  Brian W Kernighan · 123 HN points · 11 HN comments

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

  Michael Feathers · 46 HN comments

• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

  Ben R. Rich · 23 HN comments

• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

  Jon Gertner · 16 HN comments

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

  James Clear · 5 HN comments

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

  Don Norman · 13 HN comments

• The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

  Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga · 4 HN comments

• The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

  Michael Kerrisk · 15 HN comments

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

  Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim · 4 HN comments

• The Dream Machine

  M. Mitchell Waldrop · 5 HN comments

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

  Jim Collins · 10 HN comments

• Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction

  N. David Mermin · 3 HN comments

• The Big Fat Surprise (Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet)

  Nina Teicholz · 4 HN comments

• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

  Joseph M. Williams · 11 HN comments

• Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

  Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, Joe Beda · 4 HN comments

• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman, Jim Harter · 3 HN comments