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 Haskell Programming

Haskell is a purely functional programming language based on Lambda calculus. This advanced programming language is presented in diverse types of functions and type systems, including dynamic types, static types, and type inference. It has no secondary effects on programs. In other words, each input delivers the exact result without changing the program’s status.

Haskell code is clear, short, easy to maintain, and more reliable than object oriented programming languages. Being a general purpose language, it’s also relevant across various fields, especially data science, artificial intelligence, parallel programming, software engineering, and web development. Learning Haskell will require some level of mathematical thinking, and it may be challenging at first, but it’s definitely worth the investment. 

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.