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Interesting lack of 1984, even though it is mentioned way too often. The lesser known "Animal Farm" and other dystopias like "Brave New World" and "Fahrenheit 4
by GuB-42 5y ago
Interesting lack of 1984, even though it is mentioned way too often. The lesser known "Animal Farm" and other dystopias like "Brave New World" and "Fahrenheit 451" are here.
Is it because it is a number?
- tracyhenry 5y agoIt's because my book database doesn't have it. In fact my model identifies 132 mentions of 1984, some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20285306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20285306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724495
- SquishyPanda23 5y agoThis is great thank you. On the topic of Brave New World, the site categorizes it as a Reference.
- SquishyPanda23 5y agoThe book title is "Nineteen Eighty-Four", but nobody spells it that way. The app may need to special case it.
- Zobat 5y agoThere's suspiciously few misspellings in the names of the books, even with words like 'millionaire' and 'righteous'. There's also 'Calculus' with 132 comments and just browsing through the comments I can find at least four different books referenced and some just talking about calculus in general. That said it's an interesting project that clearly took some effort to put together. Edit: Saw that the author commented on 'books with similar names. Many of the comments I saw had the books authors name in them as well, next iteration should perhaps look for and match on those as well.
- qiqitori 5y agoAnother book that occasionally gets mentions (51 results for https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=bagnall&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) but appears to be missing on the site AFAICT (not related to 1984, but just came to mind): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=bagnall&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Unrelated to the above, but it would also be nice if the site could search by author (I don't seem to get any hits when putting in author names) or even year of publication.