HackerBooks: a catalogue of about 15,700 books recommended in Hacker News comments, inspired by HackerTube
A browsable shelf of books HN commenters keep bringing up, by topic, with links back to the comments that mentioned each one.
After seeing Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube, the developer known on Hacker News as roansh built the same idea for books, again largely with Claude Opus 5.5. In the Show HN post, roansh says Claude wrote almost all of it, data pipeline included, while they steered, made decisions and bought the domain. The site lists books that at least two different commenters brought up between 2007 and now; its footer counts 15,704 books and 284,808 mentions. It sorts them into topics from fiction and history to programming and Lisp, with top-recommended, most-mentioned, rising and "For You" views, and each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. The data can be downloaded from the About page.
The author notes the ranking counts mentions, so praising a book and trashing it both count.
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Hacker News
After exploring HackerBooks: Books mentioned in Hacker News comments, for the community whose comments built the list, read about Hacker News.
The entry on the Y Combinator-run social news site focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, where submissions are anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
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