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SHOW HN2021

55points
17comments
#803of 2,533 in 2021
Top 32%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.

Design: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fast loading and well designed

    From 1 comment
    • Kudos! Loads superfast and well designed. I am curious about how to build a site like this? Could you shed some light on the stack used (frontend/backend)? I couldn't find…
      systemvoltage on HN
  • Weekly, monthly and yearly digests are useful

    From 1 comment
    • This is great, really really like the sticky feature of weekly/monthly/yearly digests. I get most of my book recs from HN comments. Usually they are non-technical, anything from…
      edmundsauto on HN

Objections

  • Only links to Amazon, no other retailers

    From 1 comment
    • I wish you linked out to other retailers as well, besides Amazon. Perhaps something like boook.link would be useful.
      Cenk on HN

Requests

  • Link to other retailers and book sources

    From 3 comments
    • I wish you linked out to other retailers as well, besides Amazon. Perhaps something like boook.link would be useful.
      Cenk on HN
    • Consider linking to books at https://openlibrary.org (an Internet Archive project). If they’ve scanned the book, you can usually check it out with your Internet Archive account…
      toomuchtodo on HN
    • There are plenty of self-published books on https://leanpub.com/ and https://gumroad.com/
      asicsp on HN
  • Core versus non-core HN topic switch

    From 1 comment
    • This is great, really really like the sticky feature of weekly/monthly/yearly digests. I get most of my book recs from HN comments. Usually they are non-technical, anything from…
      edmundsauto on HN

Questions

  • How are books detected in comments without links

    From 1 comment
    • First - thanks for building this! I'm curious - how do you detect a book mention if, the first time it's mentioned, there's no link to Amazon? Do you use spaCy for NER and then…
      rahimnathwani on HN
  • How to sort results by comments or date

    From 1 comment
    • Very nice. How do i sort the results by number of comments, date, etc?
      superasn on HN

Alternatives named

  • hackernewsbooks.com

    From 1 comment
    • When I was looking to fill my bookshelf with technical books last month, I stumbled upon https://hackernewsbooks.com, it helped me find a lot of good programming literature. The…
      Rendello on HN

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