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Show HN: Top 10 mentioned books from Hacker News in 2017
- Cenk 9y agoThe most mentioned book all year was really only mentioned 7 times?
- nathanaldensr 9y agoProbably not. Most likely, the algorithm used for determine a "mention" isn't very smart.
- Cenk 9y agoSort of defeats the point, right? Why not just call it "Top 10 books on Amazon linked to from HN"
- rahimnathwani 9y agoAs far as I can tell, it considers only links to Amazon.
- julesie 9y agoI’m assuming it means mentioned as a post. I know I’ve personally seen Cal Newport’s, Deep Work mentioned in the comments at least a dozen times.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoIf you click through any of the links, you'll see the actual comments listed. The thing all those comments have in common? They contain Amazon links. I prefer this list: https://hackernewsbooks.com/ https://hackernewsbooks.com/
- yesenadam 9y agoThanks for link. But the selection seemed very odd. I wondered how they got that list from HN. The site says All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts, make sure they are indeed books and then rank them based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user. Ahh. I guess that's it - people don't bother giving Amazon/other links for well-known books. Or sometimes the book has its own website. Also, that site makes money by linking to Amazon. That seems a bit dodgy to me! Hmm is it really that hard to extract book titles that aren't links to Amazon/publishers? C'mon hackers! :-)
- rahimnathwani 9y agoAccording to HN search, SICP was mentioned >5000 times over the past year: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sicp&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sicp&sort=byPopularity&prefix=... So I'm guessing the number for 2017 was similar.
- saltsuspicious 9y agoWithout a breakdown of the method, this is just an affiliate link dump...