Hacker News Books tracks the books people actually mention in Hacker News discussions, then turns those mentions into a weekly ranked list.
The goal is simple: make it easier to find the books that are resonating with engineers, founders, and curious readers without having to dig through every thread yourself.
Each week, Hacker News Books finds the books that showed up in discussions, links them to the original threads, and sends a short Thursday newsletter with the best picks. You can subscribe on the newsletter page.
Hacker News Books is an independent project and is not affiliated with Y Combinator.
We collect book links and references from Hacker News discussions, then group and rank them based on signals like frequency of mention and discussion context. Books that are brought up repeatedly across threads tend to rise to the top.
The site is designed to help you go from a passing mention in a comment thread to a book page with context, related comments, and a place to keep browsing.
Most weeks you will see a mix of programming, systems, startups, economics, history, security, and the occasional wildcard that Hacker News cannot stop talking about.
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