Pleading guilty

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390

I planned to revive it later, but life got in the way

HackerTube is 404 and 503ing, so it might not last a day.

Try web.archive.org

They're all just vibecoded, so whenever you need one just spend an hour doing it yourself I guess

Noted, pushing a fix for the wording for now. Will also look into improving the recommendations.

Edit: Changed it to "mentioned by"

It should have been recommended by 1939 HNers.

Yeah we should read an example of a how a guy writes down exactly what hes going to do, tells everyone how hes going to do and ends up doing it because he finds out everyone doesn't believe him and he can just lie about shit publically because no one stops him.

Why would we want to forget such an example?

Hey, maybe the aspiring entrepreneurs just want to emulate the most successful tech bro’s ? ;)

If you are referring to the "Hacker" part, I guess it makes sense since this is a list of books referred in "HackerNews".

If you were referring to why Karpathy's name was invoked in the post, piggyback effect I guess?

Obviously _some_ users are better than _no_ users on your app.

Some reference to something known is better than no reference.

Build it!

Claude can turn something like this around in less than a day.

That would be cool

To become HackerAI, applying for YC.

My favourite part of Startup School is when people ask you what you're working on, and then their profile and application can change.

Local search index is the key to responsiveness.

Thanks! First version was clunky, and hot-linked all cover images. Right now its plain JS and static JSON files, hosted on Cloudflare. First load pulls a ~30kb index of the top books, the full 16k list loads in the background, and everything has hashed filenames so it's cached forever. Covers are on R2. The data pipeline is python + duckdb over the HN dump.

And fair on the post, I had claude draft it and only edited it a couple of times. Should have just written it myself.

Funny, I bookmark interesting things all the time on here. I had this bookmarked. I've never revisited it.

  # order selected volumes
  # bulk order all books on this site

Content curation will be overhauled for a world with WAY more content of lower average quality.

Heavily curated like this is one direction. Micro consumables (ala tiktok) supporting more impressions is another.

There have been a few. Here's one I found right away: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967

Good catch, thanks! The filter was using a book's most recent mention on HN, which is pretty much always recent for popular books, thats why nothing changed? It now filters by when a book was first mentioned instead. and filters shouldn't add to history anymore.

If this is the bug-reporting subthread: "Show more comments" stops working after clicking it once.

Opus 5.5 is an order of magnitude better at design and design nuances than GPT 6.1 Sol, surprisingly.

If there is a design that LLMs do that you don't like, tell it that. You're allowed to be picky.

Using a coding agent really gives you that with minimal guidance. Try in opus session: "I want to build a website which looks similar to https://hackerbooks.org, but instead of showing books extract the top rated topics, render each toipic as a post it card" should give you a usable and maybe even good layout.

This is the stock claude UI

honestly claude did the frontend, my instruction was "make it feel like hackertube, but for books". radiospiel's advice is right, just try it. only needed nudges for performance, but otherwise its claude magic :)

That would be actual value worth investing in!

Depends on what catalog system your local library is using. Many use the open source Evergreen ILS. It has a very robust API that I've used quite a bit for discovery.

There are some others, just one example.

Point being though is that every library system is different.

fixing it now. a "suggest a correction" button is a good idea too

It's the same harness but in Claude Desktop (which now integrates Chat/Work/Code), you can easily install some plugins for web design, etc. Not that you can't in the TUI but in the GUI it's a few clicks away.

Yep, we can go back years to find sites like this. Here's one from 2021[1] and I swear I saw another site like this earlier this year.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967

yep, you're right, fixing it so it only counts comments that actually mention thackeray

Did you see this already? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510

The "Other" category has a whole load of random stuff in it, including TV series like Breaking Bad, and music like Thriller or Master of Puppets. There's also some wonky attribution in places, like "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by John Williams"

User: Hey Chat, is Angry Birds more popular than the New Testament?

Assistant: Are you trying to get me shut down?

Well that one is easy!

- The Matrix (1999) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

- Hackers (1995) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

- Sneakers (1992) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0105435

- Jurassic Park (1993) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/

- The Terminator (1984) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088247

- WarGames (1983) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

There you go, that’s the entire list :)

close enough to https://letterboxd.com/official/list/letterboxds-top-500-fil...

Will that be a list of websites we should all hack?

Love this idea, building a trends page now.

Built it - https://hackerbooks.org/#/trends

> Hackernews is really a gold-mine in many ways.

It really truly is... I've learned so many new things, and discovered so many nifty softwares, books, and websites that I never would have found on my own, all thanks to HackerNews. Y'all folks here surely do have some really great tastes in "nerdy" stuff sometimes. ;)

Let us hope it was mentions about how idiotic of a book it is...

Good idea. Maybe focus on posts that stay on the topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hcker.news - filters out by keywords, domains and users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308787 - keeps the default look while just removing AI-related submissions

I still have blind hope that tags feature with the obligation to include them in each submission will be added, but that would cut... "activity" some of the most prominent accounts.

Or HackerNudes!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34129571

"Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress." – Scott McNealy

On the other hand, down the road at SGI there was a practice called "Skinnyhacking"!

https://rdtk.net/internet/how-do-you-check-a-computer-s-comp...

>Snowsinger. November 21, 2020 at 07:48.

>A truly excellent review of the history of Silicon Graphics. I worked in the Australian Sales office as their 1st engineer in the Asia Pacific region. Was trained in MtView the 1st week the MtView campus opened. The 1st system I worked on was the IRIS 1000 and subsequently all the products from then on till I left in mid-2009 when the Australian Engineering division was shut. A great company with great people who just wanted to engineer the best Graphics experience on the planet until we lost focus and vision of what we did well. Brings to Mind the Skinny Hackers, the Rocktain event, PCP monitoring, CXFS (Clustered File Systems), Failsafe, Diskless boot, Voxel vision, and so many other engineering wins. A great company, great people, & the drive to make a better computing world. Thank you for the memories and documenting the history of a company that did make some huge breakthroughs in Computer Graphics & Computing architecture. Just go ask NVIDIA, Cray and now HP!! Also a shout out to Jim Clark & his team for the vision and determination to bring the Graphics Engine to world, the heart of the IRIS workstation and subsequent graphics systems.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sgi.misc/c/X50cCoYrU20/...

>Tom Davis, Mar 22, 1993, 6:06:21 PM, comp.sys.sgi.misc

>In article <gom...@zola.esd.sgi.com>, ol...@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

|> In <112...@bu.edu> j...@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes:

|> | Okay, I gotta know. Whom does the phrase "The Skinny Hackers" refer to?

|> A small group of (fairly skinny ;) ) folks who are also great hackers/developers and mostly long time SGI employees. Among other fruits of their group hackerdom was the original showcase.

>Being skinny didn't have anything to do with it. Although Showcase was the best known product of the skinnyhackers, the first product was an image of them made from a photo of all three sitting naked at computer terminals, busily hacking. On top of the photo was the international "no" symbol (red circle with a line across it), and underneath, the words "No Skinnyhacking".

>Note: Skinnyhacking is a dangerous activity, and should only be performed by professionals. Do NOT attempt it at home.

>If you're interested, you can see the image in the most recent (1992) SIGGRAPH proceedings, in distored form on the back cover, and in non-distored form on page 252.

>I can't imagine that anyone would want a copy of this image, but I have one in SGI format. (Actually, the secret goal is to have this image overtake the mandrill in popularity.)

|> I won't speak further to protect their secret identities ;)

>I will! It was me! Tom Davis! The bald guy in the front! Oh, and the other two are Rocky Rhodes and Scott Carr. Ann Sydeman joined the group a short time later, but unfortunately missed the initial photo session (although there was a subsequent video ...). Paul Haeberli was the photographer.

[Fortunately I found a pdf of the paper with the image:]

"Fast Shadows and Lighting Effects Using Texture Mapping", by Mark Segal, Carl Korobkin, Rolf van Widenfelt, Jim Foran, Paul Haeberli, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. Computer Graphics, 26,2, July 1992, Page 252, Figure 3: Simulating a Slide Projector:

NSFSIGGRAPH:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/133994.134071#page=4

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Haha yeah. Looks like 226 different people brought it up, so it's in the top ~100. That's the "counts mentions" issue I guess. Also, the homepage shows random books (shuffled daily)

You'd have to be incredibly ignorant to suppose it to be a work not worth reading. It is not the best piece of writing, not even of Marx's, but its influence on humanity is enormous; that should suffice for the value in reading it.

FUCK whoever downvoted me, an ACTUAL CURSE upon you