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Posted by roansh 21 hours 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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hbarka 19 hours ago|
I assume that like Karpathy you used Claude Code Desktop. The harness seems to be more capable than VS Code or terminal. Could you have done it with TUI alone?
gtirloni 19 hours ago|
It's the same harness but in Claude Desktop (which now integrates Chat/Work/Code), you can easily install some plugins for web design, etc. Not that you can't in the TUI but in the GUI it's a few clicks away.
baxtr 17 hours ago||
Nice, I like it!

Feedback: I don’t understand how the rising category works. I looked up a couple of books and they seemed to have peaked a while ago.

bookofjoe 19 hours ago||
This is the best HN day EVER since I stumbled on the site 10 years ago: first HackerTube and now this! Thank you SO much, both of you!
el_psy_congroo 19 hours ago||
this has already existed for a long time, but I think it would be cool if it was really recommendations, instead of just mentions
cwnyth 19 hours ago|
Yep, we can go back years to find sites like this. Here's one from 2021[1] and I swear I saw another site like this earlier this year.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967

amiune 20 hours ago||
HackerMovies someone with free tokens please
nullandvoid 2 hours ago||
Here you go https://hackerfilms.pages.dev
QuantumNomad_ 20 hours ago|||
Well that one is easy!

- The Matrix (1999) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

- Hackers (1995) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

- Sneakers (1992) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0105435

- Jurassic Park (1993) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/

- The Terminator (1984) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088247

- WarGames (1983) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

There you go, that’s the entire list :)

drfuchs 20 hours ago|||
Don't forget the most prescient one!

- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177

amiune 20 hours ago|||
"Never send a human to do a machine's job"
SSLy 20 hours ago||
close enough to https://letterboxd.com/official/list/letterboxds-top-500-fil...
rcarmo 18 hours ago||
The Science Fiction section is pretty much spot on, and in roughly the order I’d do it myself :)
phodo 15 hours ago||
Seeing a book or two I recommended more than 10 years ago is pretty cool.
sleiben 21 hours ago||
Thats pure gold. Thank you my friend!
addandsubtract 20 hours ago||
Have AI create a clean room rewrite of each book, so we can read them on the site.
soleman 18 hours ago|
Do you guys really trust the taste of users on here? I don't
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