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• stephen_cagle
  You know, one thing that I think is interesting in tech circles is how much interest we have in maths in general, except that there is almost nothing on the "top" list that I saw that was related to probability and statistics. It like P&S, which is probably the most useful math for most people who need to make decisions in life, is just not that interesting to people with a technical bend.
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  bita_nidir
  > I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.Correct move on handling the financial aspect yourself. I asked my mine to do everything but forgot to give it some dough. It sorted it all out but ended up with $6.3B on its account and I think it might have done something dodgy.
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  361994752
  I remember there were multiple such websites before being shared in HN. I bookmarked them, and a couple years later when I finally wanted to find a book, the only thing I got is 404. I hope this one lives longer.
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  drayfield
  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!
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  srik
  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.
• pipes
  I used https://hackernewsbooks.com/ for years, it was fantastic for personal buys and gifts. But then it disappeared a few months a go.Glad someone has created a new one.
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  jchook
  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.
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  tabs_or_spaces
  I think the concept is amazing, so don't take the rest of my comment too seriously.But why do we anchor naming to someone who made something popular? Why do we upvote similar names too? For example, openclaw became popular then there were similar projects with the "claw" naming.It's just a very fascinating psychological thing to do, and I don't understand why. Because if you copy part of a name, generally you'll never get more popular than the original name. So why do this?
• fnordpiglet
  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.
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  mycall
  You all are tip toeing around HackerMedia.
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  MYEUHD
  This was done already, back in 2021!https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967
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  gosen
  Great idea and nice implementation, please keep it going! I'm waiting for HackerMusic and HackerNet now :)
• rushil_b_patel
  Why not open source the repo ? People find something interesting and will built on top of it.
• LaFolle
  May be we need single webapp that shows all intellectual artifacts shared in hackernews since its inception and updated hourly or daily and also make a social media app to for consumption:1. youtube 2. books 3. podcasts 4. blogs 5. articles 6. etc...
• comboy
  There's been a few of these already, and it feels a bit off, I'd suggest you do one more prompt and weight by karma
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  polishdude20
  I swear there used to be a hackernewsbooks website some years ago?
• Flemlord
  Love this! Pls add amazon.com links and a 2020s filter button. You could probably pull all the missing covers from Wikipedia. Would love to have this for TV/Movie/Podcast recommendations also.Thx.
• baxtr
  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.
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  JKCalhoun
  I'm beginning to like this new internet…
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  vigilantpuma
  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.
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  RetroTechie
  More filter options please? # Author # Date published (like enter a from-date and/or to-date) # License # Free download available y/n # Sample chapter available # Format: softcover / hardcover / ebook / audiobook etc # No. of pages # Language(s) # Can you watch the movie? (if so: IMDB/Wiki link) Just to name some off the top of my mind.
• RGS1811
  This is wonderful. I'm delighted to see that Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations has been recommended over 100 times.
• 5555watch
  After clicking an entry, below, "What Hacker News says", we see comments with mentions and surrounding text. It's now squashed, maybe you can add a function to expand on click, to see the comment with newline separation if such exist. Cause very often these comments presents a list of their favorite book, and an explanation of why. When these are squashed, it's not clear which explanation is preceding or following the entry.Also, clicking the link "On "...."" it doesn't bring to the exact comment, only that thread or topic, so you need to search for it. It could bring directly to that comment.
• jmathai
  I love this idea and hope the trend continues. It could even lead to finding niche communities to join.
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  phtrivier
  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...
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  mattfrommars
  I need to understand how do you guys build such slick or decent UI for websites. I get the backend but the front end, I have yet to crack. I know there is impeccable repo but I'm unsure how to go from here
• shouvik12
  Inspired by this, I made the same thing for dev tools, counting only comments that actually recommend the tool (not just mention it): https://shouvik12.github.io/hackertools
• WalterBright
  "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...I've mentioned it a couple times.
• bilater
  Nice. I did something similar ranking the top 100 software/tool request of HN since 2008.https://stillunbuilt.shiptiffin.app/
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  bawolff
  It would be cool if you could filter by books my local library has (no idea if that info is publicly available)
• aunty_helen
  It seems the published dates need tidied up. Brave new world is showing as published in the 2000s.Very cool though and love seeing all of the covers in various forms of condition.
• pndy
  Not a fan of "For you" based on supposed similarities to what I've clicked before. Especially when e.g. "Scratch Programming Playground" has nothing to do with "Brave New World". I'd remove it but that's me.Maybe language filters for non-English titles? Or if a book is in public domain already then links to the sources could be presented?
• clara04
  Liked HackerBooks! My college algorithm professor always recommends the Concrete mathematics book.
• delichon
  We are now at the point where a new SaaS can be conceived, implemented and launched on HN before the announcement of the SaaS that inspired it has left the front page. I can feel the acceleration squishing my face.
• rcarmo
  The Science Fiction section is pretty much spot on, and in roughly the order I’d do it myself :)
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  DuncanCoffee
  Add a way to suggest the correct author, sometimes just reading the first comment linked in the page has the right one, for example:https://hackerbooks.org/#/book/OL999456W> HIS DESIRE WAS FIERCER THAN A ROCKY MOUNTAIN STORM... HERS WAS RECKLESS AND DANGEROUSLY WILD
• soleman
  Do you guys really trust the taste of users on here? I don't
• bookofjoe
  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!
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  hbarka
  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?
• blcsntb
  Good for me. Thank you!!!
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  el_psy_congroo
  this has already existed for a long time, but I think it would be cool if it was really recommendations, instead of just mentions
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  Erlangen
  I like the responsiveness of the website.But there's no way Vanity Fair by Thackeray so high on "top all-time" list. It turns out that a lot of comments are about Vanity Fair magazine.
• alex_young
  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.
• drsalt
  having 16.5k recommendations is the same as having 0 recommendations
• lcnmrn
  Compared to HackerTube, this is pure gold! Design books, it is!
• drittich
  I love this and feel it would be greatly enhanced with semantic search.
• addandsubtract
  Have AI create a clean room rewrite of each book, so we can read them on the site.
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  laxisOp
  Gold gold . Thanks .now i need one for yt and one for only science papers
• sleiben
  Thats pure gold. Thank you my friend!
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  notatoad
  apparently angry birds is a book? and it's more popular than the new testament in the "other" category.
• dyauspitr
  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.
• jll29
  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.
• alexpadula
  I expected way more books for software engineering.
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  alex_young
  Don’t tell anyone, but I’m working on hacker hack
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  amiune
  HackerMovies someone with free tokens please
• esher
  Atlas Shrugged in the top of all time? So so.
• arendtio
  I think now we need 'HN-News - HackerBooks, but for news mentioned on HN'SCNREven though I like HackerTube as well as HackerBooks. However, for HackerBooks, I am missing the summary of why people on HN recommend it.
• yreg
  Hacker Music tomorrow?
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  hyperman1
  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
• oidar
  I'd love to see a books and youtube thing for metafilter too. It has a similarly good recommendation history for me.
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  Imustaskforhelp
  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 :-DHackernews 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
• badmonster0
  i like this idea
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  LeComedien
  Ayn Rand so high, though!
• nzjrs
  Slop
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  low_tech_punk
  Next idea, build HackerNews, a website that features actual news from HackerNews.
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  bosshawg
  It would be much more amazing if theres just a link to download all thees books as a ZIP file.If some AI influencer could please do that and post a link here as a comment i'll give you some upvoates