Show HN: HackerBooks – An AI-Curated Directory of Books from Hacker News
A developer launched HackerBooks, an AI-generated directory containing over 16,000 books mentioned in Hacker News comments since 2007, with each title linked to its source discussions. It demonstrates how modern AI coding tools like Claude can rapidly build data-intensive web applications from historical community discussions, serving as a curated reading resource. The application was built almost entirely by Claude (Opus 5.5) and counts any book mentioned by at least two different commenters, meaning both praise and criticism contribute to a book's inclusion.
## BACKGROUND
The project was inspired by Andrej Karpathy's 'HackerTube,' a concept that aggregates and presents high-quality YouTube videos recommended by the Hacker News community in a streamlined interface. Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator.