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24 alternatives to Not sure what to read next? Here's a list of most mentioned books on HN
This website displays the most frequently mentioned books on Hacker News, helping readers discover popular titles within the tech community. It aggregates book references from HN discussions to identify which works are… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Not sure what to read next? Here's a list of most mentioned books on HN launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · hackernewsbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hnreads.com · its alternatives →
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Dec 2025 · hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app · its alternatives →
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2019 · collectoral.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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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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2020 · mapfilterfold.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · 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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2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
26d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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Most mentioned books from hacker news
2017 · toptalkedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News last week
2016 · its alternatives →
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HN Digest▲81Daily digest of comments posted on Hacker News
2023 · hndigest.substack.com · its alternatives →
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A recommendation tool to find your next book
2017 · whichbookshouldiread.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…
2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · timqian.com · 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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