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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)
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:01AM (#50326842)
Made a books version of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326821

PS: thank you karpathy, been binging videos on hackertube.org

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

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...

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Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:25AM (#45874154)
https://startreverie.com

Rates your sleep, tracks sleep debt, and tracks how workout timing, coffee time, AC temperature, etc influence your sleep.

2.0 is in review - adds support for recovery (based on sleep HRV, HR), and strain.

a demo video here https://x.com/rohitshindein/status/1985643097439813831

Re:Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo on Sunday September 21, 2025 @09:58PM (#45328393)
Apologies for a noob (and off-topic) question, but what stops Apple from competing with Nvidia?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:45PM (#34220971)
I am in between jobs right now, and free to join immediately :)

  Location: Pune/Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Elixir, JavaScript, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ReactJS, Redux, etc
  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.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022) on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:30AM (#33092001)
Hi :)

  Location: Bangalore, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: [Backend, distributed systems focussed], tools familiar with: 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.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022) on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:26AM (#32720859)

  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.
Benoit, thank you for this!

"What has government done to our money" is a nice read to understand money, inflation, central banks, exchange rates between currencies, etc.

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

It opens with describing what money is from the first principles.

Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:25PM (#31767914)
How would you feel if your commits become publicly available for everyone to see forever?
Re:Resident Evil Village in the browser through Stadia on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:30AM (#31694736)
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.

Re:OneTrust lays off 25% Workforce on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:41AM (#31691928)
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?

Re:The collapse of complex software on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:36PM (#31683367)
This is a good talk by Jonathan Blow on/against software complexity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

Also talks about the risk of losing knowledge, and a way to avoid that (make multiple copies).

Re:Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:50PM (#31623234)
Emacs has a plug-in.

Slightly off topic but.. couldn’t resist

Re:100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:41AM (#30853458)
Same for me :) This is a good trick to get out of depressive moods

While I think this[1] holds, I can still use the scale of the universe to get myself out of bad situations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30852360

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