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

• Functional Programming in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 227 HN points · 29 HN comments

• Algorithms, Part I

  Coursera · Princeton University · 109 HN points · 54 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2

  Coursera · Offered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem · 154 HN points · 10 HN comments

• Introduction to Python Programming | Udacity

  Udacity · 16 HN comments

• Data Structures and Algorithms

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

• How to Code: Complex Data

  edX · University of British Columbia · 13 HN comments

• VLSI CAD Part I: Logic

  Coursera · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 8 HN comments

• Algorithmic Thinking (Part 1)

  Coursera · Rice University · 4 HN comments

• Algorithms, Part II

  Coursera · Princeton University · 4 HN comments

• Data Structures: An Active Learning Approach

  edX · The University of California, San Diego · 2 HN comments

• JavaScript (JS) Algorithms and Data Structures Masterclass

  Udemy · 2 HN comments

• Functional Program Design in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Mastering the Software Engineering Interview

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 6 HN points

• Python for Everybody

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 1 HN comments

• Algorithms and Data Structures

  edX · Microsoft · 1 HN comments

• Elasticsearch 7 and the Elastic Stack - In Depth & Hands On!

  Udemy · Sundog Education by Frank Kane · 1 HN comments

• Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

  Coursera · University of Colorado System · 1 HN comments

• Data Mining

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

• Coding Interview Bootcamp Algorithms, Data Structures Course

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• SQL and PostgreSQL: The Complete Developer's Guide

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Data-driven Astronomy

  Coursera · The University of Sydney · 1 HN comments

• Master the Coding Interview: Data Structures + Algorithms

  Udemy · Andrei Neagoie · 1 HN comments

• Graph Analytics for Big Data

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN comments

• COBOL Programming with VSCode

  Coursera · IBM · 1 HN comments

• Managing Big Data with MySQL

  Coursera · Duke University · 2 HN comments

• iOS 13 & Swift 5 - The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp

  Udemy · Dr. Angela Yu · 1 HN comments

• Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms

  Coursera · University of Washington · 1 HN comments

• VLSI CAD Part II: Layout

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

• Using Python to Access Web Data

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 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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