HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN

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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 the Hacker News community finds valuable across technology, business, science, and other topics. It serves readers looking to discover books trusted by software developers and tech professionals.

written from the facts on this page · November 2026

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  Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News2016 · hackernewsbooks.com · ▲463
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  40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning2021 · hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · ▲1,359

  Thinking, Fast and Slow - with 523 comments from the Hacker News community

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  Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads2020 · mapfilterfold.com · ▲273
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  Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025Dec 2025 · hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app · ▲613
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  HNLibrary2017 · ▲83

  Books recommendations from 15 millions Hacker News comments

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  I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of commentsJun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · ▲822

  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.

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  SimCity, but with Permits▲939

  A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.

  Life & fun · 15d ago · permit.petercai.com

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  Talk to your computer without talking out loud▲828

  Meet Subvocal. Silent text input for your computer, at the speed of speech. Built by The Subvocal Company.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · subvocal.company

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  I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years▲778

  Life & fun · 27d ago · tanzaniaeducationproject.org

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  Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app▲728

  Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.

  Life & fun · 28d ago · bigwords.page

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  Steal My Bitcoin▲625

  A PHP security challenge. Find the hidden bitcoin key. First person to get the wallet wins.

  Life & fun · 11d ago · stealmybitcoin.com

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  Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard▲573

  Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.

  Life & fun · 22d ago · guitoro.com

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  Talk to your computer without talking out loud▲828

  Meet Subvocal. Silent text input for your computer, at the speed of speech. Built by The Subvocal Company.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · subvocal.company

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  Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version Hacker News▲466

  A newspaper from Hacker News, refreshed every hour. Independent headlines, original sources.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · hackertimes.ca

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  Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN▲339

  The Wikipedia articles Hacker News keeps linking to, ranked by how many different commenters linked them.

  Life & fun · 3d ago · wikihack.netlify.app

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  Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre▲320

  Central Warsaw in 1 m voxels, built from OpenStreetMap, LiDAR and the city

  Life & fun · 2d ago · p.migdal.pl

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  OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust▲318

  Fast, robust, accurate diffing . Contribute to ivankovic/omnidiff development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 3d ago · github.com

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  I've updated my Linux System Call website and API▲235

  The Linux syscall table for 27 architectures: every system call number, argument and register, with a table per architecture, from Linux 3.3 to 7.3.

  Dev tools · 2d ago · syscall.sh