Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

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Show HN: HackerBooks, a web tool that surfaces books mentioned in Hacker News comments, with keyboard navigation and trending/rising lists.

Saw Karpathy&#x27;s HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5).<p>It&#x27;s ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.<p>To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.<p>It counts mentions, so it&#x27;s not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.
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# Hacker Books — books mentioned in Hacker News comments Source: [https://hackerbooks.org/](https://hackerbooks.org/) ## Keyboard shortcuts /Focus searchj/kNext / previous bookEnterOpen focused bookEscClose / go backghGo to HomegtGo to Top all\-timegrGo to RisinggfGo to For You?Show this help

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