27 comments

  • bilater a few seconds ago

    Nice. I did something similar ranking the top 100 software/tool request of HN since 2008.

    https://stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app/

  • fnordpiglet 7 minutes ago

    Slightly different take - use the Claude / OpenAI / muse desktop navigation integration to actually go into your YouTube account and like all the videos and watch them for a bit to seed your algorithm.

  • drayfield 14 minutes ago

    I like the idea, but the wording might need to change as to how it counts a recommendation. As it stands Mein Kampf has been "recommended" by 651 HNers, a troubling statistic!

  • polishdude20 7 minutes ago

    I swear there used to be a hackernewsbooks website some years ago?

  • jchook 17 minutes ago

    The site is really fast. I see HTTP/3, OpenGraph, and Cloudflare. Can you expand on the technologies used?

    Also... "Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it."

    > Please don't put generated text in HN posts.

    Claude speak gives me a gag reflex these days.

      roansh 8 minutes ago

      Thanks! First version was clunky, and hot-linked all cover images. Right now its plain JS and static JSON files, hosted on Cloudflare. First load pulls a ~30kb index of the top books, the full 16k list loads in the background, and everything has hashed filenames so it's cached forever. Covers are on R2. The data pipeline is python + duckdb over the HN dump.

      And fair on the post, I had claude draft it and only edited it a couple of times. Should have just written it myself.

  • phtrivier 9 minutes ago

    The next stage is "HackerTime", a startup providing enough time to watch all the video and read all the books and play all the game and read all the news on "HackerZ for Z in tube, books, games, news".

    With AI, in rust, invest before it's too late, etc...

  • RGS1811 13 minutes ago

    This is wonderful. I'm delighted to see that Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations has been recommended over 100 times.

  • vigilantpuma 16 minutes ago

    The “mentions since” picker appears to be broken, nothing in the list changes as far as I can see. Also I wish it wouldn’t add another page to my history.

      peri-cl 5 minutes ago

      If this is the bug-reporting subthread: "Show more comments" stops working after clicking it once.

  • low_tech_punk 5 minutes ago

    Next idea, build HackerNews, a website that features actual news from HackerNews.

  • srik 11 minutes ago

    I want this but for podcasts. I pick a podcast I subscribe to say the Tim Ferris show and I see book mentions by episode/theme/tim/guest with links to favorite/library/amazon. Life's too fragile for me to make something public like that but it's fairly easy is'nt it. Every passing year I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet, especially nowadays given how easy it is to obtain transcripts.

  • alex_young 3 minutes ago

    Don’t tell anyone, but I’m working on HackerHack, like HackerBooks and HackerBooks, but with comments and other posts and news and stuff. Some say it’s just HackerNews, but those are just Luddites who don’t get it.

  • jmathai 20 minutes ago

    I love this idea and hope the trend continues. It could even lead to finding niche communities to join.

  • alex_young 5 minutes ago

    Don’t tell anyone, but I’m working on hacker hack

      busymom0 2 minutes ago

      Will that be a list of websites we should all hack?

  • sleiben 14 minutes ago

    Thats pure gold. Thank you my friend!

  • alexpadula 11 minutes ago

    I expected way more books for software engineering.

  • Imustaskforhelp 24 minutes 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

  • LeComedien 24 minutes ago

    Ayn Rand so high, though!

  • beanjuiceII 40 minutes ago

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      dang 29 minutes ago

      We've banned this account for repeatedly (exclusively?) posting unsubstantive comments and ignoring our requests to stop.

      If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

      roansh 26 minutes ago

      Haha yeah. Looks like 226 different people brought it up, so it's in the top ~100. That's the "counts mentions" issue I guess. Also, the homepage shows random books (shuffled daily)

      semilin 16 minutes ago

      You'd have to be incredibly ignorant to suppose it to be a work not worth reading. It is not the best piece of writing, not even of Marx's, but its influence on humanity is enormous; that should suffice for the value in reading it.