All books mentioned on the recent Ask HN best books thread
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.
All books mentioned on the recent Ask HN best books thread launched on October 11, 2024 with 9 votes, #1,236 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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