Karpathy just built HackerTube. Soon after, someone took the same idea and applied it to…
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Karpathy just built HackerTube. Soon after, someone took the same idea and applied it to books. The new project is called HackerBooks. The idea is pretty simple. The creator analyzed nearly 20 years of Hacker News comments, extracted the books people kept mentioning, and turned them into a searchable, sortable reading list. No fancy recommendation algorithm. You can even go back to the original comments to see why a particular book came up. But what I find more interesting is how it was built. Inspired by Karpathy, the creator used Claude Opus 5.5 to handle the data processing and build
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