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24 alternatives to Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
This project tracks books frequently mentioned in comments on Hacker News, the popular technology and startup discussion forum. It aggregates references to titles across discussions to identify which books the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →
- 2BM
Dec 2025 · hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app · 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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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
- 5HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · mapfilterfold.com · its alternatives →
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- 8NS
2012 · hntopbooks.com · 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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2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · 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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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts
2020 · harishgarg.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hnreads.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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I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…
2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →
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2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.
2012 · normansoven.com · 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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2021 · hakaran.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…
2023 · hackyournews.com · its alternatives →
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Most mentioned books from hacker news
2017 · toptalkedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · its alternatives →
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