Hacker News was created by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, as a place for tech-savvy individuals to share and discuss interesting content related to technology, startups, programming, and more.

Initially, it started as a simple link aggregator, where users could submit links to articles, blog posts, and projects they found intriguing.

Over time, it evolved into a thriving community with a strong emphasis on intellectual curiosity, thoughtful discussions, and quality content.

I'm an avid reader of Hacker News and often come across high-quality discussions from the community. I found that the courses and books people discuss on Hacker News are really good, so I conduct monthly analyses and aggregate the top courses/books found in comments and rank them.

Why Learn CSS Programming

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a language used by web developers to build the foundations of the websites we use every day. Alongside HTML and JavaScript, CSS is seen as “must-have” language for web developers

It's easy to take a free Web template and build a website. But these templates rarely inspire by their elegance, so your website will look like every other site on the internet. By learning CSS you can modify these templates so that they display your colors and styles. Thus, you'll have a customized website without a lot of effort.

Many older websites that were built without CSS prove difficult to redesign. But once a site is built with CSS hooks, it can be redesigned very quickly. Changing things like the colors and backgrounds refresh how a site looks with very little effort. In fact, many sites now put up special versions of their sites for special occasions and they can do this because it only takes a few hours to create an alternate stylesheet for the occasion.

Top Books

Our methodology

We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"

It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to books and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place.

Ranking currently takes into account HN stories (points) and comments (sentiment, karma, estimated points).

Who are we

Find accountability partners, and study online courses & books with other learners. Moocable helps you find your next course/book/problem set, and lets you find study partners.