Tech Pulse

Bookshelf · 20 Oct

Books worth your time

Fresh titles from Manning and O'Reilly and other tech publishers, the books developers are talking about, and the all-time favourites by topic.

Updated · 125 new releases · 34 discussed

New releases

Published this year or last, Manning & O'Reilly first.

Kargo in Action

Ken Cochrane, Jesse Suen, Kent Rancourt

Manning2026Early access

AI Governance

Engin Bozdag, Stefano Bennati

Manning2026Early accessAI / ML

Bestsellers

Most popular titles right now, straight from the publisher's catalog.

DuckDB in Action

Mark Needham, Michael Hunger, Michael Simons

Manning2024Databases

Latency

Pekka Enberg

Manning2025

LLMs in Production

Christopher Brousseau, Matthew Sharp

Manning2024AI / ML

Vibe Engineering

Tomasz Lelek, Artur Skowroński

Manning2026Early access

AI-Powered Search

Trey Grainger, Doug Turnbull, Max Irwin

Manning2024AI / ML

Developers are talking about

Book posts on Hacker News and Lobsters over the last months, by points.

  1. 1
    Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMsgithub.com
    Hacker News20116630 Apr
  2. 2
    Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)opensource.posit.co
    Hacker News1984118 Aug
  3. 3
    Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never readreadrare.com
    Hacker News1916710 Oct
  4. 4
    Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storagegithub.com
    Hacker News1766425 Aug
  5. 5
    The Rust on ESP Bookdocs.espressif.com
    Hacker News1762225 Jul
  6. 6
    Open Book Touch: open-source e-readercrowdsupply.com
    Hacker News1745818 Jul
  7. 7
    Show HN: DRM-Free Booksfrequal.com
    Hacker News1184828 Jun
  8. 8
    Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own booksreadkinetic.com
    Hacker News1056822 Jul
  9. 9
    Control Structures in Programming Languagesxavierleroy.org
    Lobsters67915 Jun
  10. 10
    The Cuckoo's Eggen.wikipedia.org
    Lobsters592530 Sept
  11. 11
    Ju! Ju! Tsuarialdo.codeberg.page
    Lobsters46522 Sept
  12. 12
    Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoorhalf-second.com
    Hacker News455319 Jul
  13. 13
    Hacker Fables - A satirical cyberpunk novella you can read as a man pagehacker-fables.onrender.com
    Lobsters39713 Jul
  14. 14
    Modern Common Lisp with FSetfset.common-lisp.dev
    Lobsters29615 Apr
  15. 15
    The Secret Life of Circuitslcamtuf.coredump.cx
    Lobsters25718 Apr
  16. 16
    Proof-oriented Programming in F*fstar-lang.org
    Lobsters211212 Feb
  17. 17
    The pattern language of software architecturemetapatterns.io
    Lobsters1932 Sept
  18. 18
    An Engineer’s Guide to USB Type-Cti.com
    Lobsters19622 Jul
  19. 19
    Answer Set Programming (2019)cs.utexas.edu
    Lobsters1989 Jan
  20. 20
    A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP (1987)archive.org
    Lobsters1622 May

All-time favourites

Highest-rated books per topic on Open Library.

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks

Addison-Wesley Professional19744.2

Pro Git

Scott Chacon, Ben Straub

Springer20094.2

Test-driven development

Kent Beck

Addison-Wesley Professional20024.3

Programming Perl

Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant

O'Reilly & Associates19903.8

Software engineering

Ian Sommerville, Sommerville, Ian., Ian Sommerville

Pearson19824.0

Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

IT Revolution Press20183.3

Beautiful Code

Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

O'Reilly20073.2