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The Best Books of Hacker News
2022

• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

  Tim Wu · 14 HN comments

• The Algorithm Design Manual

  Steven S S. Skiena · 18 HN comments

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

  Jon Gertner · 18 HN comments

• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

  Alex Petrov · 5 HN comments

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

  Martin Fowler · 5 HN comments

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

  Thomas H. Cormen · 53 HN comments
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• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

  Gayle Laakmann McDowell · 10 HN comments

• The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

  Edmond Lau, Bret Taylor · 6 HN comments

• Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional

  Carol Coye Benson, Scott Loftesness, Russ Jones · 3 HN comments

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins · 4 HN comments

• The Future of Fusion Energy

  Jason Parisi, Justin Ball · 4 HN comments

• The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

  John E. Sarno M.D. · 14 HN comments

• Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)

  Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 2 HN comments

• Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (Developer Reference)

  Pavel Yosifovich, Mark Russinovich, David Solomon, Alex Ionescu · 6 HN comments

• COVID-19: The Great Reset

  Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret · 3 HN comments

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Steve Blank · 16 HN comments

• Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#

  Scott Wlaschin · 5 HN comments

• No bullshit guide to linear algebra

  Ivan Savov · 11 HN comments

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

  Burton G. Malkiel · 3 HN comments

• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

  Colin Bryar, Bill Carr · 2 HN comments

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

  Jim Collins · 12 HN comments

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

  Michael A. Hiltzik · 18 HN comments

• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

  Jane McGonigal · 3 HN comments

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

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 7 HN comments

• Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture)

  Edouard Bugnion, Jason Nieh, Dan Tsafrir · 2 HN comments

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

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

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

  Don Norman · 14 HN comments

• Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

  Christian Rudder · 5 HN comments

• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

  Frans de Waal · 3 HN comments