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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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arendtio 22 hours ago|
I think now we need 'HN-News - HackerBooks, but for news mentioned on HN'

SCNR

Even though I like HackerTube as well as HackerBooks. However, for HackerBooks, I am missing the summary of why people on HN recommend it.

hnlmd9hb9 11 hours ago||
Interesting discussion, thanks for posting.
globalnode 10 hours ago||
very nice!

edit: no love for the secret life of circuits under electronics, tho it is a fairly recent book

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720143

dyauspitr 21 hours ago||
Your book cover images are trash and I don’t blame you. There isn’t a good compendium of high-quality cover images and metadata for books that you can use for commercial purposes. Google books is amazing but they won’t let you use it for commercial purposes so there is a huge hole in the market if someone is willing to solve it. Calibre does a pretty good job, but it has its own algorithm that is very convoluted and involves searching Google images and multiple other sources and compiling them.
oidar 1 day ago||
I'd love to see a books and youtube thing for metafilter too. It has a similarly good recommendation history for me.
Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago||
I am really loving what people are building on similar ideas close to HackerTube and I am tinkering something of my own as well with these new ideas.

Awesome Idea and I would love to see what else community tinkers with things like these :-D

Hackernews is really a gold-mine in many ways.

Edit: I will try to read thinking fast and slow because of HN recommendations. I have heard some good things about the book but I will try to read it in future given HN's immense recommendations, so your website has already had a negative net positive for me :-D

blooalien 1 day ago|
> Hackernews is really a gold-mine in many ways.

It really truly is... I've learned so many new things, and discovered so many nifty softwares, books, and websites that I never would have found on my own, all thanks to HackerNews. Y'all folks here surely do have some really great tastes in "nerdy" stuff sometimes. ;)

signoff_studio 14 hours ago||
good move
esher 21 hours ago||
Atlas Shrugged in the top of all time? So so.
LeComedien 1 day ago||
Ayn Rand so high, though!
tejtm 16 hours ago||
Shoreing up the meme that there is; "no such thing as bad publicity"
runtime_terror 1 day ago||
Let us hope it was mentions about how idiotic of a book it is...
dang 1 day ago||
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
badmonster0 22 hours ago|
i like this idea
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