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Thank you for this. Really intriguing how they do it: "All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts. We then
by vmurthy 7y ago
Thank you for this. Really intriguing how they do it:
"All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts. We then rank the links based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user on Hacker News. So books mentioned several times by different people having high karma tend to rise to the top." [0]
[0] https://hackernewsbooks.com/about https://hackernewsbooks.com/about
- j1elo 7y agoYou can check the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365693 The author even shared the formula used to calculate those rankings