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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4ggr0 12/22/2025|

i mentioned 5 books in a comment[0], only 3 where registered by this tool. Wonder why :D

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965191

jackconsidine 12/21/2025||

extremely cool thanks.

See a few of my mentions on here, a few of them not [0]

Regardless, this is a real treat

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44977536

begueradj 12/21/2025||

The 6 first books reflect the quality comments I often see here on HN.

bookofjoe 12/21/2025||

Best HN post of the year. I just surfaced after hours exploring.

throw-12-16 12/22/2025||

Seems like a great training set for a hn astroturf bot.

mkbkn 12/22/2025||

Can you also make it for 2024 and previous years?

codingdave 12/21/2025||

Affiliate marketing is such a mixed bag. I absolutely love it when people can monetize their writing by adding some affiliate links that are relevant to the audience - win/win for all sides. Yet it is as slimy as anything else when the sole purpose of creating content is to publish affiliate links.

seinvak 12/21/2025||

My bad — probably should’ve added a disclaimer :) For what it’s worth, I only added sponsored links to the top ~50 books out of ~10k total. Mostly just trying to cover the cost of a decent domain so I can keep the site running.

SquareWheel 12/21/2025||

> "probably should’ve added a disclaimer"

It's a violation of the Amazon Associates program to not have one.

mtlynch 12/22/2025||

Also, it's illegal in the US and many other countries to not disclose that you're earning money from a recommendation.[0]

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...

whatamidoingyo 12/21/2025||

Eh, I've shared your views before. But Amazon affiliate link payouts are trash. The OP made it to the front page of HN, but I'd be surprised if he makes more than $100. It's possible, but probably highly unlikely. Let him them make some money, it's a cool project.

But, OP, if you're going to have this, disclaimers, and a privacy policy are really important (especially for collecting emails).

wellpast 12/21/2025||

Love this. Is there a scrape-able list of these?

seinvak 12/21/2025|

Thanks for the love.No need to scrape, just use this json containing all the data used in making the site :

https://storage.googleapis.com/globalhnbucket/normalized_boo...

kaizenb 12/22/2025||

This is just great! Thanks for building.

kaizenb 12/22/2025|

No design category though, broke my heart :(

tonymet 12/21/2025|

great project! how did you do tokenization and alignment of the titles to their ISBN / Amazon ID

seinvak 12/21/2025|

Thanks! I used OpenLibrary's API to get the book IDs, and then Gemini 3 to generate the Amazon links.

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