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HackerBooks

HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

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About HackerBooks

A bookshelf of the books Hacker News readers recommend most, 2006–2026.

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In the maker’s words

Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page. To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc. It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.
roansh, launching on Hacker News

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Latest observations from the last 14 UTC days. Each sample counts the retrieved posts from the collection’s 30-day window; votes and stars use different units. Missing dates or sources are gaps, not zero activity. Samples are not a traffic or growth measurement.

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    848 points
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