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I’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.
by julesie 9y ago
I’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! :-)