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

• Big Data Analysis with Apache Spark

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

• Data Science at Scale

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

• Unix Tools: Data, Software and Production Engineering

  edX · Delft University of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 2 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/process-mining

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

• Statistical Analysis in Bioinformatics

  edX · University of Maryland Global Campus, University System of Maryland · 1 HN comments

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

  Udemy · Sundog Education by Frank Kane · 1 HN comments

• Modern Big Data Analysis with SQL

  Coursera · Cloudera · 1 HN comments

• Data-driven Astronomy

  Coursera · The University of Sydney · 1 HN comments

• Serverless Machine Learning with Tensorflow on Google Cloud Platform

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 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

• Ethics in AI and Big Data

  edX · The Linux Foundation · 1 HN comments

• Data Stream Development via Spark, Kafka and Spring Boot

  Udemy · Packt Publishing · 4 HN points

• Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics

  edX · Microsoft · 1 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce

  Udacity · 1 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Managing Big Data with MySQL

  Coursera · Duke University · 2 HN comments

• Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v2

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

• Introduction to High-Performance and Parallel Computing

  Coursera · University of Colorado Boulder · 1 HN comments

• Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

  edX · The Georgia Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms

  Coursera · University of Washington · 1 HN comments

• Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Interconnection

  edX · Cornell University · 2 HN points

• Deep Learning for Beginners: Neural Networks in R Studio

  Udemy · Start-Tech Academy · 2 HN points

• Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 2 HN points

• AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Cert Prep - July 2020

  Udemy · Lawrence Manickam · 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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