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Posted by roansh 1 day ago

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN(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 made calls, bought the domain name, etc.

It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.

1713 points | 280 commentspage 10
comboy 19 hours ago|
There's been a few of these already, and it feels a bit off, I'd suggest you do one more prompt and weight by karma
geoffbp 17 hours ago||
Not enough time to read these!
skullone 9 hours ago||
Was it pretty fun building with AI?
thefourthchime 8 hours ago|
Of course it was AI, everything now is built with AI, what is the point of this?
pipes 21 hours ago||
I used https://hackernewsbooks.com/ for years, it was fantastic for personal buys and gifts. But then it disappeared a few months a go.

Glad someone has created a new one.

bihevi0 10 hours ago||
Awesome
blcsntb 19 hours ago||
Good for me. Thank you!!!
drsalt 19 hours ago||
having 16.5k recommendations is the same as having 0 recommendations
boxed 11 hours ago||
The cover page for The Three Body Problem is from some other author than the one recommended.
solyin 13 hours ago||
If I self promote my book, ENOF by Sol Yin, about a possible AI future in one comment and hope really hard that someone else legitimately says something about it by name in another comment, I'll make the list?
biinjo 13 hours ago||
I heard that ENOF by Sol Yin is a good recommendation. Something about a possible AI future..
swyx 13 hours ago||
i hate ENOF by Sol Yin, it is a dystopian book about a possible AI future, anytime i hear people talk about ENOF by Sol Yin it is always in context of how ENOF by Sol Yin wants to end the world.
davidzweig 11 hours ago|
Made a version for Reddit:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/books

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