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The Best Books of Hacker News
2021

• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

  Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 9 HN comments

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

  Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim · 6 HN comments

• COVID-19: The Great Reset

  Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret · 3 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

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins · 4 HN comments
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• 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 Future of Fusion Energy

  Jason Parisi, Justin Ball · 4 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

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

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

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

  Jim Collins · 12 HN comments

• Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

  Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman · 3 HN comments

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

  Christian Rudder · 5 HN comments

• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

  Don Norman · 14 HN comments

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

  Frans de Waal · 3 HN comments

• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

  Steve McConnell · 27 HN comments

• Effective Java

  Joshua Bloch · 5 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

  Terence McKenna · 3 HN comments

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

  Alfred Aho, Monica Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey Ullman · 14 HN comments

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

  Michael Kerrisk · 16 HN comments

• Lions' Commentary on Unix

  John Lions · 6 HN comments

• The Woodpecker Method

  Axel Smith & Hans Tikkanen · 2 HN comments

• Gödel's Proof

  Ernest Nagel, James Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter · 20 HN comments

• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

  Nassir Ghaemi · 4 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

• Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

  John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov · 9 HN comments

• The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

  Gerald M. Weinberg, Virginia Satir · 11 HN comments

• Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

  Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright · 18 HN points · 3 HN comments

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

  Tim Wu · 12 HN comments