Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN
A user-created website, HackerBooks, aggregates book recommendations from Hacker News comments and provides a downloadable dataset of over 16,500 book titles mentioned from 2007 to now. The site links each book to its corresponding comments. The project was created by a user who saw HackerTube, a similar platform for videos, and wanted to replicate the concept for books. The website's data pipeline and site were built by Claude, with the user providing guidance and overseeing the project. The site counts mentions of each book, but notes that this may not be a perfect measure, as praising and criticizing a book in the same comments can both be counted.
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