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24 alternatives to All books recommended on Ask HN
After reading this Ask HN post [1] (and buying too many books), I found myself going through old posts about book recommendations. I wanted to find all books recommended in those posts and save the top ones for future book shopping sprees. This has been done before [2, 3], but I wanted to get books that were recommended, not just mentioned. I used the Algolia API [4] to get all Ask HN posts about books, reviewed them and filtered out ones that were too specific e.g best books to learn math. The comments were then sent to the Open AI API [5] to extract books that are recommended. I then…
All Books Recommended on Ask HN aggregates book recommendations from Hacker News discussion threads. The tool uses the Algolia API to identify Ask HN posts about books, then applies AI to extract which titles were… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. All books recommended on Ask HN launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…
2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →
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2020 · mapfilterfold.com · its alternatives →
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Thinking, Fast and Slow - with 523 comments from the Hacker News community
2021 · hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, For the past couple months I've been working on a website with two main features: - https://book.sv - put in a list of books and get recommendations on what to read next from a model trained on over a billion reviews - https://book.sv/intersect - put in a list of books and find the users on Goodreads who have read them all (if you don't want to be included in these results, you can opt-out here: https://book.sv/remove-my-data) Technical info available here: https://book.sv/how-it-works Note 1: If you only provide one or two…
Nov 2025 · book.sv · its alternatives →
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2016 · hackernewsbooks.com · its alternatives →
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I spent a lot of time going through the recent thread: Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432) so I made this website to browse through it later and get the books I want from Amazon. It gets the comments using the HN API, uses the Open AI API to extract book names, and then the Amazon API to find the book on Amazon.
2024 · hnbestbooks.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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HN Books collects, ranks, and showcases the best books that have been recommended on Hacker News.
2021 · yahnd.com · its alternatives →
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HN Academy collects, ranks, and showcases the best online courses and MOOCs that have been recommended on Hacker News.
2019 · hn.academy · its alternatives →
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Bookshlf▲97Your AI-powered book recommender to learn anything
2023 · everlearns.com · its alternatives →
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I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.
2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com · its alternatives →
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Librarian-Ai.com is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.
2023 · librarian-ai.com · its alternatives →
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Find new books that break you out of your echo chamber!
2020 · abooklikefoo.com · its alternatives →
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Not sure what book to read next? Let artificial intelligence find the next book for you to read. Type in the titles of books you like and see what book recommendations AI will find for you out of more than a million titles. Enjoy reading!
2021 · readow.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello community. Some time ago I was trying to create a project for my students using Hacker News data. As you might know, HN offers an official API [0], but it's based on Firebase and I felt it's main usage is to build clients, rather than consult data. I found out that Algolia also provides an official REST API [1]. It's exactly what I needed: the ability to "search" HN. Either by keywords, type of stories (Show HN, Ask HN, etc) and/or date. So I created a thin python wrapper on top of Algolia's Search API: https://github.com/santiagobasulto/python-hacker-news The…
2019 · its alternatives →
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IHBOOKS▲200A curated list of +160 books recommended by Indie Hackers
2018 · ihbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Books recommended by the world's most successful people
2020 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that book/author. Try it here: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025 This goes wide and doesn't try to limit itself to the genre, so you get some interesting results. What do you think? Background: I want better recommendations based on my reading history. I'm incredibly frustrated with what is out there. This system is based on 5,000 readers voting on their 3 favorite reads…
Dec 2025 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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Hypelist▲250Discover personalized recommendations of everything you love
2024 · hypelist.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · redditfavorites.com · its alternatives →
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AI Bookstore▲94Find the book you want to read with the help of AI
2023 · ai-book-store.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Browse book recommendations by experts that you choose
2024 · its alternatives →
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