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.

Top Courses

• Mathematics for Machine Learning

  Coursera · Imperial College London · 106 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Data Science

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 27 HN points · 20 HN comments

• Data Structures and Algorithms

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 5 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Machine Learning

  Udacity · 5 HN comments

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 HN comments

• Big Data Analysis with Apache Spark

  edX · University of California, Berkeley · 9 HN points · 4 HN comments

• How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers

  Coursera · National Research University Higher School of Economics · 4 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Data Science at Scale

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN points · 8 HN comments

• AI For Everyone

  Coursera · deeplearning · 11 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Data Science and Engineering with Spark

  edX · University of California, Berkeley · 2 HN points · 3 HN comments

• JavaScript (JS) Algorithms and Data Structures Masterclass

  Udemy · 2 HN comments

• Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2 HN comments

• Statistical Learning

  edX · Stanford University · 3 HN comments

• Hacking PostgreSQL: Data Access Methods

  edX · Ural Federal University · 6 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Systems Biology and Biotechnology

  Coursera · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2 HN comments

• Intro to Data Science

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Data Science Math Skills

  Coursera · Duke University · 2 HN comments

• Tableau Desktop: Hands-on Dashboards + SQL for Beginners

  Udemy · Dev Bhosale · 8 HN points

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Process Mining: Data Science in Action

  Coursera · Offered by Eindhoven University of Technology · 3 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Mathematics & Statistics of Machine Learning & Data Science

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Python for Machine Learning & Data Science Masterclass

  Udemy · Jose Portilla · 1 HN comments

• Data Science: Visualization

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN comments

• Data Mining

  Coursera · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 1 HN comments

• Data-driven Astronomy

  Coursera · The University of Sydney · 1 HN comments

• Applied Machine Learning

  edX · Microsoft · 1 HN comments

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 online courses 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

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