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

Would be nice if you could filter out all the only 1 mention books, and then sort by least number of mentions. There seems to be a million 1 mention books, and I can't scroll through them all, but would be more curious to see books with 2 or more mentions.

It was kind of disappointing to see the highest mentioned books, since I've read most of them already (nothing new really popped out.)

The Holy Bible mentioned.

Embarrassing to see 0 works by Max Stirner in this work. HN is truly spooked.

Can you also make it for 2024 and previous years?

There was another one, HackerNews Readings, but seems to be not updated.

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/

Lovely site. Got curious about one of my own biases (that the perceived libertarian slant of HN would be similarly in favor of Ayn Rand), and clicked through the usual suspects to see the context they were discussed in.

Pleasantly surprised to see much of the discourse was along the lines of, "Oh yeah, read her stuff, found it fascinating [in the same vein as a train wreck can be], recommended just to understand how those folks think." Not going to pick up her stuff any time soon, but I was happy to have a bias prove unfounded.

Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz is absent. We cultists have fallen down on the job.

i soooo live in a reality bubble: harry potter and the bible were 1 & 2? i don't associate with anyone that reads either. bubble on!

This is great!

I think some books might have a boost if we add their informal names, namely:

- Dragon book

- Wizard book

- ummm, I'm sure there's more