Here are a list of top talked books in June 2019 from Hacker News.

Last Updated: 2019–08–25

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world — sand — and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other — even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt’s pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world’s tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres’ stained-glass windows to your…

Here are a list of top talked books in June 2019 from Stack Overflow.

Last Updated: 2019–07–20

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.

In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases. …

Here are a list of top talked books in June 2019 from Reddit.

Last Updated: 2019–07–20

The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER.

There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Mueller III’s into President Donald Trump’s possible collusion with Russia. His momentous findings can be found here, complete with:

• The 300+ pages of the historic report, as released by the Justice Department
• An introduction by constitutional scholar, eminent civil libertarian, and New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz.
• The relevant portions of Title 28 of the…

Here are a list of top talked books in June 2019 from Stack Overflow.

Last Updated: 2019–07–20

Effective Java (2nd Edition)

Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the Java™ programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable? Look no further! Effective Java™, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb: working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges you encounter every day. This highly anticipated new edition of the classic, Jolt Award-winning work has been thoroughly updated to cover Java SE 5 and Java SE 6 features introduced since the first…

Here are a list of books that have mentioned in June 2019 from hacker news.

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

Recounts the development of the supercomputer by Seymour Cray, and traces the life of the maverick engineer and entrepreneur who created a new industry

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

1. Please introduce yourself and the book.

My name is Clive Maxfield, but everyone calls me Max. My BSc degree is in Control Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. I graduated in 1980. My first job was as a member of a team designing the central processing units (CPUs) for mainframe computers. After a year, two of the managers left to form their own company and invited me to join them. I spent a couple of years writing test programs to debug PCBs, then moved on to creating simulation models for one of the early logic simulators. …

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2017 has passed away one week now, it’s time for us to make a summary. We analyzed the statistics from hacker news(use BigQuery), and the result show that the following 10 books were the most frequently mentioned.

1. Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Author: Sam Quinones, Mentioned times: 7

2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software