Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN — SkimNews
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- HackerBooks was built with Claude (Opus 5.5) as a books-focused counterpart to Karpathy’s HackerTube, after its creator wanted the same concept applied to books.
- HackerBooks catalogs roughly 16,500 books brought up by at least two different Hacker News commenters from 2007 onward; every title links to its source comments, and the dataset is downloadable from the About page.
Why it matters: For Hacker News readers, the practical value is traceability: roughly 16,500 titles are tied to the comments that surfaced them, and the underlying data can be downloaded. Requiring at least two commenters also gives the collection a repeated-mention filter for inclusion.
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