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

• Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 34 HN points · 177 HN comments

• An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)

  Coursera · Rice University · 56 HN points · 13 HN comments

• Design of Computer Programs

  Udacity · 2 HN points · 24 HN comments

• Introduction to Python Programming

  Udacity · 16 HN comments

• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 8 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 2 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Software Debugging

  Udacity · 12 HN comments

• Algorithmic Thinking (Part 1)

  Coursera · Rice University · 4 HN comments

• Data Science at Scale

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

• Mastering OCR using Deep Learning and OpenCV-Python

  Udemy · 16 HN points

• Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications

  Coursera · Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Stanford University · 2 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Learn to Program: The Fundamentals

  Coursera · University of Toronto · 3 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Online Data Analyst Course

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Essential Math for Machine Learning: Python Edition

  edX · Microsoft · 2 HN comments

• CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

  edX · Harvard University · 6 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Quantum Machine Learning

  edX · University of Toronto · 6 HN points

• Python for Everybody

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 1 HN comments

• Python for Machine Learning & Data Science Masterclass

  Udemy · Jose Portilla · 1 HN comments

• Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN comments

• Data-driven Astronomy

  Coursera · The University of Sydney · 1 HN comments

• Master Linear Algebra: From Theory to Implementation

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Python For Maya: Artist Friendly Programming

  Udemy · Dhruv Govil · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Using Python for Research

  edX · Harvard University · 4 HN points

• Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 4 HN points

• Data science on COVID-19 / CORONA virus spread data

  Udemy · Frank Kienle · 3 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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