Comment by __rito__ | Hacker News Reader

Comment by __rito__ | Hacker News Reader

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I found Hacker Recommended Books [0a] on HN [0b], and began reading through the books on it, tried many books, read around 20 of them. The experience has been great, and learned many new things. Some books have expanded my mind.

If you are into books, I highly recommend searching HN with the simple keyword "books", and filter using "Ask HN" tags [1], or simply by "books". This is how I choose almost all of my English books now (I am trilingual and can read more languages)- even non-technical books. I have been doing this for more than two years, and I really like HN for books recommendations.

Many years' worth of high quality reads can be found on HN threads related to books. They are goldmines.

EDIT: There is also Hacker News Books [2]. Check out their Top Books of All Time section [3].

[0a]: https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...

[0b]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Ask+HN+books

[2]:https://hackernewsbooks.com

[3]: https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news

I decided today I will start reading a book recommended by HN.

So I went to your link at [0a], selected last 6 months. There are 58 pages of recommendations and 15 recommendations per page. So I rolled a 15 sided dice to choose the page. Then another roll to choose which book on that page.

I will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar

> I rolled a 15 sided dice

15 sided die? Why didn't you also roll a 58 sided die then?

> I will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Great luck! I loved that book as a child. It may have been what led me to HN...

Okay with the 58 sided dice I have added The Gruffalo to my reading list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967 ("Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning") is great, I still regularly use it!

I wish that model was updated in some time interval. It is frozen in time. :/

I understand and know the pain of maintaining a fully online model, and that is asking too much from an individual. But, say, a manual update every six months or even a year would be okay.

Thanks for these!

I thought “Hacker Recommended Books” sounded immensely useful, so I decided to save the bookmark to my pinboard account.

“Previously saved 2 years ago.”

Oops.

(Not a critique of the site! More of myself and forgetting services like these exist despite my best intentions.)

Yeah, I too wish that the dev updated it once a year or once every six months.

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