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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 · 4 HN comments

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

  Martin Kleppmann · 26 HN comments

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 68 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 · 8 HN comments

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

  Jordan Mechner · 4 HN comments

• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

  Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 8 HN comments
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• Effective Java

  Joshua Bloch · 5 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (The MIT Press)

  Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher · 1 HN points · 9 HN comments

• The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

  Paul Saladino M.D. · 3 HN comments

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Steve Blank · 15 HN comments

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

  Michael Feathers · 47 HN comments

• Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

  Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay · 3 HN comments

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins · 3 HN comments

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

  Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken · 3 HN comments

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

  Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling · 8 HN comments

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

  Forrest Brazeal · 21 HN points · 1 HN comments

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

  Jon Gertner · 16 HN comments

• The Dream Machine

  M. Mitchell Waldrop · 6 HN comments

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

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

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir

  Brian W Kernighan · 123 HN points · 11 HN comments

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

  Don Norman · 13 HN comments

• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

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

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

  David Epstein · 7 HN comments

• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

  Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, David S. Duncan · 2 HN comments

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 6 HN comments

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

  Ben R. Rich · 23 HN comments

• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

  Daniel Immerwahr · 3 HN comments

• The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

  Olivia Fox Cabane · 10 HN comments

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

  James Clear · 5 HN comments

• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

  Eric Evans · 3 HN points · 21 HN comments