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

• Algorithms, Part I

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

• coursera.org/learn/progfun1

  Coursera · Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 144 HN points · 44 HN comments

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 5 HN points · 11 HN comments

• Software Development

  edX · University of British Columbia · 4 HN points · 13 HN comments

• Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems: Part 1

  Coursera · University of Maryland, College Park · 3 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Java Programming Basics | Udacity

  Udacity · 4 HN comments

• Algorithms, Part II

  Coursera · Princeton University · 4 HN comments

• How to create a Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto address - Java

  Udemy · Tuna Tore | AWS Solutions Architect · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Kotlin for Java Developers

  Coursera · JetBrains · 1 HN comments

• Computer Science: Algorithms, Theory, and Machines

  Coursera · Princeton University · 1 HN comments

• Advanced Software Construction in Java

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Software Construction in Java

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Data Stream Development via Spark, Kafka and Spring Boot

  Udemy · Packt Publishing · 4 HN points

• Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v2

  Udemy · Stephane Maarek | AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer Associate · 1 HN comments

• Fundamentals of Java EE Development

  edX · Red Hat · 2 HN points

• Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Programming in Java

  Coursera · Rice University · 2 HN points

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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