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Show HN: Reading list of popular Hacker News users

143 points by QueensGambit 7y ago

vlab_mech 7y ago
Awesome! Always looked for this list.
rboobesh 7y ago
How did you build the list?
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  We compiled it from their twitter feed and HN threads.
  - komali2 7y ago
    Manually? Interesting. Out of curiosity, why not just make it a static, no-js webpage then?
    - QueensGambit 7y ago
      It is a semi-manual process with a chrome plugin. So, I found it easier to render the scrapped data with Firebase & NodeJS.
visio_nerdy 7y ago
"Cook French cuisine like a Master chef"! - Good list by Michael Seibel :)
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
Nicksil 7y ago
Does this website hijack scrolling? It really feels like it does. If it does, please reconsider; this shouldn't still be happening in web development.
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  I bought a theme and used it for this site. The javascript in the theme might hijack scrolling. I will check and fix it. Thanks for letting me know! Update: Fixed it! There was smoothscroll.js (v1.3.8) in the theme that was causing it. Note to Self: Don't blindly include all theme files :)
  - user00012-ab 7y ago
    I gave up on the site as soon as the scrolling stopped working correctly. why would you you design a site that breaks simple scrolling?
    - dajohnson89 7y ago
      He acknowledged the problem and said he will address it. Don't be an asshole.
- purple_ducks 7y ago
  very janky scrolling - chrome on windows
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  It's doing something very weird in Safari with my MacBook trackpad. Inertial scrolling as expected, but it feels as though everything is happening on a delay. I'm not inherently opposed to scroll hijacking if it's for a very specific purpose and is implemented in a non-annoying way. Neither seems to apply to this site.
carapace 7y ago
I thought it was going to be a collection of their posts on HN. This is also good. Cosmetic feedback: Too much whitespace.
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  Actually, I do have the links to the HN and twitter posts. But, wanted to launch this first and see if it interests others. Will add them soon. Thanks for the feedback!
  - carapace 7y ago
    I meant that I thought it would be posts to read, not posts about what to read. In other words, I thought it was the users' posts themselves that was the content you're collecting/curating. Cheers!
- pjc50 7y ago
  At some point I'm going to do a compilation of my most highly voted posts, although I doubt I qualify as "popular" in the same level as patio11 or tptacek.
jasode 7y ago
A friendy FYI that you want to review section 5 of the Amazon Associates Agreement[0] and put a disclosure somewhere on your website. [0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreemen... [1] previous comment about same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295594
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  Didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out! Fixed it!
jasaloo 7y ago
shout out to the guy who put down two Chomsky books. Manufacturing Consent is one of the most important works of the 20th century. You'll never read the news the same way again.
- elhudy 7y ago
  At risk of sounding pretentious, is Manufacturing Consent really all that important? It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing, and those who don't care wouldn't read the book. For the record, I haven't read the book.
  - jasaloo 7y ago
    "It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing..." Well, how do principals emerge in the first place? Often by intense research, data gathering, and sound argumentation. I can't think of another work out there that lays this foundation like MC. If you do read it (or watch the documentary which I've heard is pretty good), you might be surprised at some of the filters that exist in the modern propaganda model. I sure was. Anecdotally, I have plenty of well-educated friends who "care" and also consider themselves very media-literate. A lot of them also readily parrot talking points from the NY Times. Having this body of work (which is an academic goliath, even by Chomsky and Herman's standards) is essential to critical media studies.
durzagott 7y ago
If I'm honest, I prefer the crowd-sourced wisdom of everyone on HN [1], rather than a few individual's preferences. I do like the way you've put each person's list into topics though. A few suggestions and questions: - as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) - is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? - I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Congrats on putting this together though. I hope you receive lots of interest and appreciation! [1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  Hacker News Books looks great and crowd-sourced wisdom is very useful! But, sometimes I find such aggregated data to be a popularity contest. It becomes the default recommendation I see everywhere - from Amazon to Google trends. So, I wanted to see individual's reading list and decide for myself. That's why I built this. > as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) Yes. I hope to categorize by communities such as Hacker News, Vernacular Books etc. My next list is "Reading with Your Child" :) > is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? It is not in any specific order, since it is compiled from different sources. Hopefully, I will get to interview them to ask for their preference? ;) > I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Sure! That's my next task. Thanks for all the suggestions!
vharuck 7y ago
At first glance of this post's title, I thought it was a list of unpopular users' reading. Which would be more interesting, even if the books themselves weren't.
- QueensGambit 7y ago
  Just curious! Why would that be more interesting to you? To get contrarian thoughts?
tptacek 7y ago
Don't buy the Gang of Four book.
- alphagrep12345 7y ago
  Why? I thought it was a good book.
- kasey_junk 7y ago
  I disagree. It’s a foundational piece of software engineering literature, even if it is mostly misapplied. If nothing else, it is important to understand the vocabulary presented in GoF. Don’t buy it if you think its going to teach you how to write software better. Do buy it if you might ever get dropped in a OO software base written in the last ~20 years. Because understanding the context of the names is important.
  - pvg 7y ago
    If the OO software base is C++ with UML diagrams from 1997, sure. But even the terms themselves, their contexts of application have drifted quite a bit. The book is by now mostly a historical record of the fascinating Zoroastrian-like effort to give 101 names to two things - 'don't call us, we'll call you' (observer-observable/callback) and 'I'll have my people call your people' (delegation).
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - tptacek 7y ago
    I think you can get the vocabulary from online sources now (Norvig's talk alone is a pretty good starting point). I agree about its cultural importance, but if you wrote GoF'y code in 2019, in any language, people would look at you AbstractFactoryFunny.
    - kasey_junk 7y ago
      The Java community made it pretty easy to punch down to them with the over use of the vocabulary. But its still valuable when I tell another developer "that's using a flyweight" for them to not look at me blankly. And for what its worth I've used GoF patterns in golang in the last 6 months. No one looked at me funny (to my face at least).

143 points by QueensGambit 7y ago

vlab_mech 7y ago

Awesome! Always looked for this list.

rboobesh 7y ago

How did you build the list?

QueensGambit 7y ago
We compiled it from their twitter feed and HN threads.
- komali2 7y ago
  Manually? Interesting. Out of curiosity, why not just make it a static, no-js webpage then?
  - QueensGambit 7y ago
    It is a semi-manual process with a chrome plugin. So, I found it easier to render the scrapped data with Firebase & NodeJS.

visio_nerdy 7y ago

"Cook French cuisine like a Master chef"! - Good list by Michael Seibel :)

deleted 7y ago
[deleted]

Nicksil 7y ago

Does this website hijack scrolling? It really feels like it does. If it does, please reconsider; this shouldn't still be happening in web development.

QueensGambit 7y ago
I bought a theme and used it for this site. The javascript in the theme might hijack scrolling. I will check and fix it. Thanks for letting me know! Update: Fixed it! There was smoothscroll.js (v1.3.8) in the theme that was causing it. Note to Self: Don't blindly include all theme files :)
- user00012-ab 7y ago
  I gave up on the site as soon as the scrolling stopped working correctly. why would you you design a site that breaks simple scrolling?
  - dajohnson89 7y ago
    He acknowledged the problem and said he will address it. Don't be an asshole.
purple_ducks 7y ago
very janky scrolling - chrome on windows
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
It's doing something very weird in Safari with my MacBook trackpad. Inertial scrolling as expected, but it feels as though everything is happening on a delay. I'm not inherently opposed to scroll hijacking if it's for a very specific purpose and is implemented in a non-annoying way. Neither seems to apply to this site.

carapace 7y ago

I thought it was going to be a collection of their posts on HN. This is also good. Cosmetic feedback: Too much whitespace.

QueensGambit 7y ago
Actually, I do have the links to the HN and twitter posts. But, wanted to launch this first and see if it interests others. Will add them soon. Thanks for the feedback!
- carapace 7y ago
  I meant that I thought it would be posts to read, not posts about what to read. In other words, I thought it was the users' posts themselves that was the content you're collecting/curating. Cheers!
pjc50 7y ago
At some point I'm going to do a compilation of my most highly voted posts, although I doubt I qualify as "popular" in the same level as patio11 or tptacek.

jasode 7y ago

A friendy FYI that you want to review section 5 of the Amazon Associates Agreement[0] and put a disclosure somewhere on your website. [0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreemen... [1] previous comment about same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295594

QueensGambit 7y ago
Didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out! Fixed it!

jasaloo 7y ago

shout out to the guy who put down two Chomsky books. Manufacturing Consent is one of the most important works of the 20th century. You'll never read the news the same way again.

elhudy 7y ago
At risk of sounding pretentious, is Manufacturing Consent really all that important? It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing, and those who don't care wouldn't read the book. For the record, I haven't read the book.
- jasaloo 7y ago
  "It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing..." Well, how do principals emerge in the first place? Often by intense research, data gathering, and sound argumentation. I can't think of another work out there that lays this foundation like MC. If you do read it (or watch the documentary which I've heard is pretty good), you might be surprised at some of the filters that exist in the modern propaganda model. I sure was. Anecdotally, I have plenty of well-educated friends who "care" and also consider themselves very media-literate. A lot of them also readily parrot talking points from the NY Times. Having this body of work (which is an academic goliath, even by Chomsky and Herman's standards) is essential to critical media studies.

durzagott 7y ago

If I'm honest, I prefer the crowd-sourced wisdom of everyone on HN [1], rather than a few individual's preferences. I do like the way you've put each person's list into topics though. A few suggestions and questions: - as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) - is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? - I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Congrats on putting this together though. I hope you receive lots of interest and appreciation! [1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news

QueensGambit 7y ago
Hacker News Books looks great and crowd-sourced wisdom is very useful! But, sometimes I find such aggregated data to be a popularity contest. It becomes the default recommendation I see everywhere - from Amazon to Google trends. So, I wanted to see individual's reading list and decide for myself. That's why I built this. > as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc) Yes. I hope to categorize by communities such as Hacker News, Vernacular Books etc. My next list is "Reading with Your Child" :) > is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers? It is not in any specific order, since it is compiled from different sources. Hopefully, I will get to interview them to ask for their preference? ;) > I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment). Sure! That's my next task. Thanks for all the suggestions!

vharuck 7y ago

At first glance of this post's title, I thought it was a list of unpopular users' reading. Which would be more interesting, even if the books themselves weren't.

QueensGambit 7y ago
Just curious! Why would that be more interesting to you? To get contrarian thoughts?

tptacek 7y ago

Don't buy the Gang of Four book.

alphagrep12345 7y ago
Why? I thought it was a good book.
kasey_junk 7y ago
I disagree. It’s a foundational piece of software engineering literature, even if it is mostly misapplied. If nothing else, it is important to understand the vocabulary presented in GoF. Don’t buy it if you think its going to teach you how to write software better. Do buy it if you might ever get dropped in a OO software base written in the last ~20 years. Because understanding the context of the names is important.
- pvg 7y ago
  If the OO software base is C++ with UML diagrams from 1997, sure. But even the terms themselves, their contexts of application have drifted quite a bit. The book is by now mostly a historical record of the fascinating Zoroastrian-like effort to give 101 names to two things - 'don't call us, we'll call you' (observer-observable/callback) and 'I'll have my people call your people' (delegation).
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- tptacek 7y ago
  I think you can get the vocabulary from online sources now (Norvig's talk alone is a pretty good starting point). I agree about its cultural importance, but if you wrote GoF'y code in 2019, in any language, people would look at you AbstractFactoryFunny.
  - kasey_junk 7y ago
    The Java community made it pretty easy to punch down to them with the over use of the vocabulary. But its still valuable when I tell another developer "that's using a flyweight" for them to not look at me blankly. And for what its worth I've used GoF patterns in golang in the last 6 months. No one looked at me funny (to my face at least).