roansh
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Nice catch! Is it possible that HN traffic is going down?
Good catch :) link now redirects to the actual dragon book
Thanks, appreciate it! And thanks for the VibeVoted credit.
For the SaaSHub listing you can use [email protected].
Not doing any realtime or semi-realtime monitoring yet, the whole thing is compiled offline on my laptop. Might set up a periodic refresh if people find it useful -- but I suspect the listing will change as much. Maybe once a month is good enough.
Thanks! Why's (Poignant) Guide is in now:
https://hackerbooks.org/#/book/OL22247013W (it wasn't in Open Library, so it needed a manual entry). The Invention of Morel: only ~3 people have mentioned it in all of HN, and yes, looks like we're missing some long-tail titles due to how the matcher works. Needs more thought to fix it while keeping the noise low.
Thank you :) what are your fav books? curious to see if they're listed
added, every book page now has bookshop.org and amazon links (affiliate, disclosed). bookshop supports indie stores if you have a preference. fixing bunch of issues, feature requests in parallel too. thanks!
Sure can, coming right along
yep, you're right, fixing it so it only counts comments that actually mention thackeray
fixing it now. a "suggest a correction" button is a good idea too
Love this idea, building a trends page now.
It only keeps 30 comments per book so the second click was the last one :) pushed a minor fix, will look into adding all comments later
Good catch, thanks! The filter was using a book's most recent mention on HN, which is pretty much always recent for popular books, thats why nothing changed? It now filters by when a book was first mentioned instead. and filters shouldn't add to history anymore.
Noted, pushing a fix for the wording for now. Will also look into improving the recommendations.
Edit: Changed it to "mentioned by"
Thanks! First version was clunky, and hot-linked all cover images. Right now its plain JS and static JSON files, hosted on Cloudflare. First load pulls a ~30kb index of the top books, the full 16k list loads in the background, and everything has hashed filenames so it's cached forever. Covers are on R2. The data pipeline is python + duckdb over the HN dump.
And fair on the post, I had claude draft it and only edited it a couple of times. Should have just written it myself.
Haha yeah. Looks like 226 different people brought it up, so it's in the top ~100. That's the "counts mentions" issue I guess. Also, the homepage shows random books (shuffled daily)
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roansh on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:58AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://hackerbooks.org
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...
Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.
Apologies for a noob (and off-topic) question, but what stops Apple from competing with Nvidia?
I am in between jobs right now, and free to join immediately :)
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Hi :)
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Email:[email protected]
I consider myself a generalist and pick up tools and languages based on the problem at hand. I am currently working as an individual contributor, I've also worked as a consultant, have led a team for some time.
Location: Bangalore, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZ3IXUG7qe-HxOIKYyszd-gcJnNOKPwPCG700-UfF7Q/edit?usp=sharing
Email:[email protected]
I consider myself a generalist and pick up tools and languages based on the problem at hand. I am currently working as an individual contributor, I've also worked as a consultant, have led a team for some time.
How would you feel if your commits become publicly available for everyone to see forever?
Slightly off topic but:
It is in money’s interest to turn everything into service based model?
Read some news recently that, big corps are buying up houses shooting up their prices enough that common man can’t afford them.
I guess once the acquisition is large enough, they can force you to pay more money for shelter.
I wonder how many of layoffs that have happened, the ones coming are actually needed financially. For example: I suspect a lot of companies took the opportunity of the first covid lockdowns to fire some people?
Nothing against it since every company is just improving its chances of survival, just thinking out loud about the reasons they share publicly. Also, of course there would be some whose survival was in good shape, but the layoffs were just to increase the profits?
Emacs has a plug-in.
Slightly off topic but.. couldn’t resist