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Book Recommendations from Hacker News In 2018

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. We collect books that people have mentioned in the comments and present the most popular ones to you.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
1. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 8 Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
4.7
From Hacker News Mentioned: 7 Comments: 53
Avaliable on Amazon
iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)
3. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)
Marcel Weiher
3.8
From Hacker News Mentioned: 7 Comments: 9
Avaliable on Amazon
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
4. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 6 Comments: 15
Avaliable on Amazon
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
5. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 6 Comments: 9
Avaliable on Amazon
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
6. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Harvey Silverglate
4.1
From Hacker News Mentioned: 6 Comments: 47
Avaliable on Amazon
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 6 Comments: 16
Avaliable on Amazon
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
8. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4.2
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
9. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 11
Avaliable on Amazon
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 12
Avaliable on Amazon
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
11. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 41
Avaliable on Amazon
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
12. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
4.3
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
13. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
Aurélien Géron
4.0
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 12
Avaliable on Amazon
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
14. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
15. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Michael A. Hiltzik
4.3
From Hacker News Mentioned: 5 Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
16. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 11
Avaliable on Amazon
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
17. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
18. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 10
Avaliable on Amazon
How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps
19. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps
Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 26
Avaliable on Amazon
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
20. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK
21. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK
John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin
5.0
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
22. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Barbara A. Oakley
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
23. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
4.3
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
24. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff
4.3
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
25. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
4.1
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
26. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
Philip N. Klein
4.1
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
27. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
4.6
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 41
Avaliable on Amazon
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
28. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Ralph Johnson, Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Richard Helm
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 34
Avaliable on Amazon
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
29. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier
4.5
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 14
Avaliable on Amazon
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
30. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
Professor Sidney Dekker
4.1
From Hacker News Mentioned: 4 Comments: 5
Avaliable on Amazon