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

hackerbooks.orgNov 1, 7:58 AM PT

Context: About 16.5k books mentioned by at least two HN commenters since 2007, each linked back to the comments; built with Claude after Karpathy's HackerTube.

From hackerbooks.org: Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It'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.

Source

hackerbooks.org (hackerbooks.org)

Published

Nov 1, 7:58 AM PT

First seen here

Nov 1, 7:11 PM PT

Edition

Sunday, November 1, 2026, ranked 1

Status

The company itself announced or confirmed this.

Engagement

As shown by each platform when we last looked (Nov 1, 7:11 PM PT).

Why it’s here

Top Hacker News post of the day, 991 points.

Topics

AI, Consumer, Open source