Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

Posted by seinvak 12/21/2025

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025(hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app)

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recursivedoubts 12/21/2025|

If you are the creator of this site can you grab one of the covers for hypermedia systems off the website?

thank you for making this!

crobertsbmw 12/22/2025||

In safari, if I have content blockers enabled (which I have on by default for privacy and whatnot) then the site doesn’t show me anything. I’m guessing these are all ad links or something?

faizmokh 12/22/2025||

I love it.

Jut to note there seems to be a bug with the comment section. When I selected the Rust book and then selected others, the first comment from Rust book is shown in other books as well.

ajju 12/21/2025||

This is god's* work OP! Thank you!

* Or gods' work if you are polytheistic, or $god's work with "god" as a variable for all other belief systems on the Unix shell ;)

tramtrist 12/22/2025||

hmm. I made a post about "Imagining All the People. Poetry Inspired by Beatles Lyrics" but it didn't make the list. I'm guessing it's because there were no comments? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296428 https://www.thebeatleworksltd.com/

Rebelgecko 12/21/2025||

My favorite reads of 2025 came from an HN recommendation (the Steerswoman series). I don't see it on this site so maybe the comment I saw was too oblique of a reference

krick 12/21/2025|

Not really, there are quite a few books "missing" that I definitely saw mentioned in discussions not so long ago.

thefringthing 12/22/2025||

If you had asked me to list ten books that would be mentioned frequently on HackerNews, I think I'd have gotten at least eight of the top ten here.

coopykins 12/22/2025||

Surprised to see a lot of mentions to Children of Time, a book I picked picked up on a whim in a local Bookshop (something I probably hanger done in 5 years)

babblingfish 12/21/2025||

Neat. I'm seeing a lot of overlap with books mentioned on r/reddit. I didn't realize, until know, how demographically similar hacker news and reddit are.

silexia 12/21/2025||

HN used to be a site for entrepreneurs to share ideas and work on things. Now the far left Reddit crowd has crashed it and anyone who has a successful business is just "lucky" and anyone who has earned wealth should have it stolen at gunpoint by the government to redistribute to those who don't produce anything.

Yizahi 12/22/2025|||

If you seriously call HN "far left" you may try looking at Vox, Parler and Truth for the "centrist moderate" crowd :)

jll29 12/22/2025||||

You must confuse news.ycombinator.com (a U.S.-American site) with hn.se ?

lowkey_ 12/22/2025|||

If I compared HN today and Reddit 5 years ago, I'd agree, but I'm still extremely grateful for HN as I tried looking at Reddit this year and it actually made me feel like there's an extremely misinformed, radical, brainwashing happening there. I've never seen so much misinformation and negativity in one place aside from Truth Social or Threads.

HN today is equivalent to Reddit 5 years ago: not as great as it was when smaller 10 years ago, but still better than Reddit today.

tonymet 12/21/2025||

do you not read the comments?

amarant 12/22/2025|

Pleased to see that the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy was mentioned exactly 42 times!

I almost wonder if that particular number was hardcoded for humour!

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