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24 alternatives to HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN
Browse thousands of books recommended in Hacker News comments, 2006–2026. Ranked by how many different people recommend them.
HackerBooks aggregates book recommendations from Hacker News comments spanning two decades, displaying thousands of titles ranked by how many different users have recommended them. The platform lets users explore what… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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2016 · hackernewsbooks.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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2020 · mapfilterfold.com · its alternatives →
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Dec 2025 · hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app · its alternatives →
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Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →
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The Wikipedia articles Hacker News keeps linking to, ranked by how many different commenters linked them.
3d ago · wikihack.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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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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IHBOOKS▲200A curated list of +160 books recommended by Indie Hackers
2018 · ihbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · hntopbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · 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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2015 · hnreads.com · its alternatives →
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Good Books▲716Largest curated collection of 6,500+ book recommendations.
2020 · goodbooks.io · 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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Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.
2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →
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Community, All the HN belong to you. This is an archive of hacker news that fits in your browser. When I made HN Made of Primes I realized I could probably do this offline sqlite/wasm thing with the whole GBs of archive. The whole dataset. So I tried it, and this is it. Have Hacker News on your device. Go to this repo (https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook): you can download it. Big Query -> ETL -> npx serve docs - that's it. 20 years of HN arguments and beauty, can be yours forever. So they'll never die. Ever. It's the unkillable static archive of HN and it's…
Dec 2025 · hackerbook.dosaygo.com · its alternatives →
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3d ago · news.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · ihbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hackerbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →
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2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →
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