HackerBooks
A book index site built on Hacker News comment data. It collects books mentioned by at least two different commenters, and each book can be traced back to its original comments, positioning the site as a retrieval layer for community memory.
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HackerBooks is an index site cataloging about 16,500 books, each of which must have been mentioned by at least two different Hacker News commenters, spanning from 2007 to the present.
Each book entry on HackerBooks links back to the original comments that mentioned it, providing traceability.
Almost all of HackerBooks' site code was written by Claude, including the data pipeline and frontend, with the model version labeled Opus 5.5.
HackerBooks' data can be downloaded from its about page.
HackerBooks only counts mentions and does not judge sentiment, so the popularity rankings reflect discussion density rather than reputation.
HackerBooks drew on the ideas of Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube, but switched the subject to books.
The accuracy of entity matching often determines the credibility of such datasets, and HackerBooks' entity matching is not perfect; users can report errors.
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HackerBooks is an index site cataloging about 16,500 books, each of which must have been mentioned by at least two different Hacker News commenters, spanning from 2007 to the present.
50%UnverifiedEach book entry on HackerBooks links back to the original comments that mentioned it, providing traceability.
50%UnverifiedAlmost all of HackerBooks' site code was written by Claude, including the data pipeline and frontend, with the model version labeled Opus 5.5.
50%UnverifiedHackerBooks' data can be downloaded from its about page.
50%UnverifiedHackerBooks only counts mentions and does not judge sentiment, so the popularity rankings reflect discussion density rather than reputation.
50%UnverifiedHackerBooks drew on the ideas of Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube, but switched the subject to books.
50%UnverifiedThe accuracy of entity matching often determines the credibility of such datasets, and HackerBooks' entity matching is not perfect; users can report errors.
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