Most-mentioned books on Hacker News

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1. Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka
   6 people · 6 threads · via Amazon and Manning
2. A Philosophy of Software Design by John K. Ousterhout
   1 person · 8 threads · via Goodreads
3. Building a Debugger by Sy Brand
   5 people · 6 threads · via No Starch
4. Where wizards stay up late by Katie Hafner
   2 people · 3 threads · via Goodreads
5. Linux System Programming by Robert Love
   3 people · 2 threads · via No Starch
6. THE ESSENTIAL HAL CLEMENT Volume 1) Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter Volume 2) Music of Many Spheres Volume 3) Variations on a Theme By Sir Isaac Newton
   1 person · 3 threads · via Goodreads
7. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
   2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
8. Just Use Postgres! by Denis Magda
   2 people · 2 threads · via Manning
9. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
   2 people · 2 threads · via O'Reilly
10. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
11. The Art Of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
12. Off to be the wizard by Scott Meyer
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
13. The housing boom and bust by Thomas Sowell
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
14. Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
15. Summary of Julia Galef's the Scout Mindset by Slingshot Books
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
16. The Black Count by Tom Reiss
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
17. Thinking in systems by Donella H. Meadows
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads and Open Library
18. Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    2 people · 2 threads · via Goodreads
19. Writing a C Compiler by Nora Sandler
    2 people · 2 threads · via No Starch
20. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
    2 people · 2 threads · via Amazon
21. The red queen by Matt Ridley
    1 person · 2 threads · via Amazon
22. Honeybee democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
    1 person · 2 threads · via Amazon
23. Journey of the Mind by Sai Gaddam
    1 person · 2 threads · via Goodreads
24. Five Proofs of the Existence of God by Edward Feser
    1 person · 2 threads · via Goodreads
25. The Master Switch by Tim Wu
    1 person · 2 threads · via Goodreads
26. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
    1 person · 2 threads · via Goodreads
27. 1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline
    1 person · 2 threads · via Goodreads
28. The cultural cold war by Frances Stonor Saunders
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
29. 3:16 by Donald Knuth
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
30. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
31. Ideas That Created the Future by Lewis, Harry
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
32. مذكرات طالب by Jeff Kinney
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
33. The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by Peggy Ballard
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
34. Ghost in the wires by Kevin D. Mitnick
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
35. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
36. The nitrogen fix by Hal Clement
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
37. Why We Sleep by Matthew P. Walker
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
38. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Şafak
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
39. The rise of the Nones by James Emery White
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
40. The theory of almost everything by Robert Oerter
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
41. JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
    1 person · 1 thread · via O'Reilly
42. Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) by Mel Gorman
    1 person · 1 thread · via No Starch
43. How nonviolence protects the state
    1 person · 1 thread · via Open Library
44. At Home by Bill Bryson
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
45. Range by David Epstein
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
46. How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
47. Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
48. Materials selection in mechanical design by M. F. Ashby
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
49. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
50. Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls by Robert Lindsay Schuettinger
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
51. The Joy of X by Steven H. Strogatz
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
52. The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
53. Mac OS X internals
    1 person · 1 thread · via Open Library
54. What the Fuck Is My Password and Other Shit I Can't Remember by Anasse SVR
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
55. A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
56. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
57. The real world of democracy by C. B. Macpherson
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
58. Do We Need Pandas? by Ken Thompson
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
59. Traditional archery from six continents by Charles E. Grayson
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
60. The Origins of Reasonable Doubt by James Q. Whitman
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
61. The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession by James A. Brundage
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
62. Mother American night by John Perry Barlow
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
63. Billions & Billions
    1 person · 1 thread · via Open Library
64. The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
65. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
66. A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
67. Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
68. Turning Oil Into Salt Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice by Anne Korin
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
69. I Won't Give up My Rubber Band by Shinsuke Yoshitake
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
70. I Wonder Where I Am? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
71. The revolt of the masses by Teodoro A. Agoncillo
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
72. 4 Hour Forex Workweek : Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Traders Love It by Trader X
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
73. Electronic analog computers (D-C analog computers) by Granino A. Korn
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
74. Remember Me to God by Myron S. Kaufman
    1 person · 1 thread · via Amazon
75. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
76. A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
77. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
78. Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
79. The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
80. High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
81. Most secret war by Jones, R. V.
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
82. When the Heavens Went on Sale by Ashlee Vance
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
83. The Mac is not a typewriter by Robin Williams
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
84. The Pc is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
85. Who Built the Pyramids? by Phil Roxbee Cox
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
86. Stumbling on happiness by Daniel T. Gilbert
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
87. Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
88. An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
89. The Ashley book of knots by Clifford W. Ashley
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
90. Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
91. 140 Days to Hiroshima by David Dean Barrett
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
92. Don't You Have Time to Think? by Richard Phillips Feynman
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
93. Modern Software Engineering by David Farley
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
94. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
95. Education of a wandering man by Louis L'Amour
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
96. The natural history of nonsense by Evans, Bergen
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
97. A short history of financial euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
98. The Wealth of Nature by John Michael Greer
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
99. Popular Woodworking Practical Shop Math by Tom Begnal
    1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads
100. Only the paranoid survive by Andrew S. Grove
     1 person · 1 thread · via Goodreads

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