Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by 361994752 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:17PM (#50328127)

I remember there were multiple such websites before being shared in HN. I bookmarked them, and a couple years later when I finally wanted to find a book, the only thing I got is 404. I hope this one lives longer.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by thibaut_barrere on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:28PM (#50328244)

Pleading guilty

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390

I planned to revive it later, but life got in the way

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by Aurornis on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:40PM (#50329613)

It would be interesting to see how many times this same project has been done because I feel like I was seeing it at least once a month for years.

The book recommendation aggregation website is so common because it’s one of the few variations of this theme that can be monetized through affiliate links.

None of them last long because the traffic falls to zero basically as soon as it falls off the front page.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by genxy on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:26PM (#50328222)

HackerTube is 404 and 503ing, so it might not last a day.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by tough on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:10PM (#50331793)

HN hug of death at its best

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by mycall on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:59PM (#50328540)

Try web.archive.org

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by jll29 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:24PM (#50328781)

Feature suggestion: once copyright is up, link to a free online version (e.g. on archive.org, or similar online collections)

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by lazyasciiart on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:32PM (#50329503)

I think they’re talking about the index going away, not the books themselves.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by tourmalinetaco on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:27AM (#50334690)

Unfortunately, copyright won’t be up for most of these books in our lifetimes.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by micromacrofoot on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:00PM (#50328549)

They're all just vibecoded, so whenever you need one just spend an hour doing it yourself I guess

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by joebates on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:07PM (#50328640)

This is why way. I vibe coded my own for personal use when the one I used went down.

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by quincy_jones on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:52AM (#50334856)

Spoke my mind

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Re:Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentione... by Doohickey-d on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:44AM (#50335186)

That's why to build things as a static site generator, and then the result of that effectively needs no further maintenance, and only costs whatever the domain costs.

Makes it much more viable to keep such experimental things online "forever".

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