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HackerBooks launches: 16,500 books recommended on Hacker News

Original: Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing f

A developer has launched HackerBooks, a catalogue of roughly 16,500 books that at least two different Hacker News commenters have recommended since 2007. The project was inspired by Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube and was built with Claude. Each listed book links back to the discussions where it was mentioned.

Why now: Show HN launches of community-built tools inspired by Karpathy's projects draw immediate attention from the Hacker News audience.

HackerBooksHacker NewsAndrej KarpathyClaude

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Evidence

• Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN 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… · techwire@gamefan.net · 2

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