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The Best Books of Hacker News
2024

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

  Martin Kleppmann · 33 HN comments

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

  Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken · 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 · 10 HN comments

• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

  Abigail Shrier · 5 HN comments

• The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · 5 HN comments

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

  Thomas H. Cormen · 55 HN comments
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• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 72 HN comments

• Hacker's Delight

  Henry Warren · 1 HN points · 15 HN comments

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

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 10 HN comments

• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

  Aurélien Géron · 3 HN comments

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

  Michael Feathers · 50 HN comments

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir

  Brian W Kernighan · 123 HN points · 15 HN comments

• Why We Sleep (Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams)

  Matthew Walker · 25 HN comments

• Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

  Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell · 10 HN comments

• C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie · 3 HN points · 36 HN comments

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 3 HN comments

• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

  Paul Graham · 1 HN points · 16 HN comments

• Traction

  Gabriel Weinberg;Justin Mares · 4 HN comments

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

  James Kurose, Keith Ross · 6 HN comments

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

  David Epstein · 9 HN comments

• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

  Ray Dalio · 2 HN points · 3 HN comments

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  Stephen King · 7 HN comments

• Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

  Andy Oram, Greg Wilson · 1 HN points · 10 HN comments

• Meditations: A New Translation

  Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays · 6 HN comments

• How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

  Daniel J. Velleman · 3 HN comments

• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

  Michael D. Watkins · 4 HN comments

• What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

  Randall Munroe · 42 HN points · 0 HN comments

• Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus

  Andre Lamothe, John Ratcliff, Denise Tyler · 3 HN comments

• Building a 3D Game Engine in C++

  Brian Hook · 2 HN comments

• Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows

  Raymond Chen · 4 HN comments