hacker-recommended-books
Learning and science
book recommendations
SHOW HN2021
Legend
hacker-recommended-books
40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app#hacker news books#book recommendations#bert named entity recognition#book mentions
How HN took it
48 positive, 51 neutral or asking, 15 mixed, 32 critical, out of 146 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Execution: 12 for, 29 againstIdea: 11 for, 2 againstDesign: 7 for, 0 againstPricing: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 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.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fast, clean UI that mirrors HN comment styling
From 2 comments
This is awesome. The best thing is that it's so fast to navigate. I like how the HN comments are styled just like on HN. A couple of thoughts: * It would be great if each book…
rahimnathwani on HNAwesome idea and nice looking UI! I will definitely visit when I am looking for new books to read. One thing that I've noticed is that when I select another book, the scrollbar…
FinanceAnon on HN
Interesting, useful idea for finding books
From 2 comments
This is great work. There are a lot of great recommendations on HN. Before this, I had this page archived and have been reading through it-…
rg111 on HNThis is amazing. Thank you! Does it take into account negative reviews/comments? I have seen that Why we sleep is being recommended in the 6 months tab, but, while it was…
samuel on HN
Objections
Model sometimes counts mentions, not recommendations, including negative ones
From 2 comments
Interesting idea but not completely accurate. My own comment about how I hated Thinking, Fast and Slow seems to be counted as a recommendation.
unmole on HNInteresting idea, but this is mentions of books, not recommendations. It includes comments by someone that's reading the book, has it on their reading list, or read it and…
bachmeier on HN
Limited book database misses popular books
From 2 comments
Interesting lack of 1984, even though it is mentioned way too often. The lesser known "Animal Farm" and other dystopias like "Brave New World" and "Fahrenheit 451" are here. Is…
GuB-42 on HNThat might be that the book database I used is quite limited, sadly.
tracyhenry on HN
Wrong matches on short titles like Zero
From 1 comment
Very cool. This one’s wrong though: “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”. Comments are talking about other books with “zero” in the tile, such as Thiel’s “Zero To One”.…
leobg on HN
Requests
Author search and per-book URLs
From 1 comment
This is awesome. The best thing is that it's so fast to navigate. I like how the HN comments are styled just like on HN. A couple of thoughts: * It would be great if each book…
rahimnathwani on HN
Affiliate links or donation option
From 2 comments
You mention the Amazon links are not affiliate links. As a default, that's a nice move, but I believe you are within your rights to add a toggle to enable affiliate links. The…
hoten on HNYou helped me spend $150 on books! Two comments 1. I regret you earned $0 for helping me spending so much on books. Have you considered setting up affiliate links or a donation…
srcreigh on HN
Write-up on how to replicate
From 1 comment
Love it, will you do a write-up on how to replicate this with other sources? I'm currently analyzing both Indie Hackers and StartupsForTheRestOfUs Interview Transcriptions and…
maiensch on HN
Questions
How does the system work?
From 1 comment
@tracyhenry: how does the system work exactly? I cannot find any documentation on your website.
oakfr on HN
Where does the book data come from?
From 1 comment
Impressive work. What data source are you using for the books, authors and covers? I looked at OpenLibrary [1] but the covers are not the same, so I suppose it is something else?…
deaddabe on HN
Alternatives named
hackernewsbooks.com
From 1 comment
This is great work. There are a lot of great recommendations on HN. Before this, I had this page archived and have been reading through it-…
rg111 on HN
hackernewspapers.com
From 1 comment
Not much - but it needs a new set of training data for research papers. Btw - there seems to be an existing website for this already: https://www.hackernewspapers.com/ Although…
tracyhenry on HN
Amazon lists
From 1 comment
Great work but do note that the list basically looks slightly better than an amazon list (atlas shrugged lol). I think some effort into more useful ranking (looking for metrics…
ramraj07 on HN