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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.

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boxed 11 hours ago|
The cover page for The Three Body Problem is from some other author than the one recommended.
solyin 14 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 14 hours ago||
I heard that ENOF by Sol Yin is a good recommendation. Something about a possible AI future..
swyx 14 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 12 hours ago||
Made a version for Reddit:

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

ahriad 18 hours ago||
Next is HackerXXX
yreg 23 hours ago||
Hacker Music tomorrow?
tren 14 hours ago||
Hi - I work at eBooks.com. If you'd like to register as an affiliate with us, send me a msg (email in profile). We have a good commission.
hyperman1 23 hours ago||
I don't know if this is in there, but I wonder if books have a kind of 'eb and flood', where books raise to the top, stay there a while, then go away again. Could you plot some graphs? I'd expect some alrounders to stay around in the background forever, and other books come and go according to the average HN trending mood
roansh 23 hours ago|
Love this idea, building a trends page now.

Built it - https://hackerbooks.org/#/trends

hyperman1 23 hours ago||
I wonder if you've built it faster than I wrote that post.
jll29 21 hours ago||
Great site, thank you for sharing.

Now, all we need is diff-book-order(1), a command which takes as input your personal "library.bib" file and it orders all books mentioned on the parent's site that are not already part of the personal library.

hnlmd9hb9 10 hours ago||
Interesting discussion, thanks for posting.
aspect0545 18 hours ago|
Thank you!
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