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

• coursera.org/learn/progfun1

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

• Explore our Programs and Courses | Udacity Catalog

  Udacity · 11 HN comments

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala

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

• Online Courses & Programs | Udacity Catalog

  Udacity · 2 HN points · 7 HN comments

• A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment

  Coursera · Indian School of Business · 6 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/logic-introduction

  Coursera · Offered by Stanford University · 1 HN points · 5 HN comments

• Explore our Programs and Courses | Udacity Catalog

  Udacity · 5 HN comments

• Introduction to Financial Accounting

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 4 HN comments

• AI For Everyone

  Coursera · deeplearning · 11 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to Operations Management

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 1 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN comments

• Financial Accounting Fundamentals

  Coursera · University of Virginia · 2 HN comments

• Introduction to Public Speaking

  Coursera · University of Washington · 1 HN points · 2 HN comments

• IBM COBOL Basics

  Coursera · IBM · 8 HN points

• coursera.org/learn/process-mining

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

• Leadership: Practical Leadership Skills

  Udemy · Chris Croft · 1 HN comments

• International Business Essentials

  Coursera · University of London · 1 HN comments

• Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

  Coursera · University of Colorado System · 1 HN comments

• Communication in the 21st Century Workplace

  Coursera · University of California, Irvine · 1 HN comments

• Competitive Strategy

  Coursera · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) · 1 HN comments

• Gamification

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 1 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Machine Learning for Business Professionals

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 1 HN comments

• Database Management Essentials

  Coursera · University of Colorado System · 1 HN comments

• CS50's Computer Science for Business Professionals

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN comments

• Becoming an Entrepreneur

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 5 HN points

• How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

  Coursera · University of London · 5 HN points

• Time Series Forecasting

  Udacity · 1 HN comments

• Ethics in AI and Big Data

  edX · The Linux Foundation · 1 HN comments

• Business and its Environment: An Overview of Business and the Role of Finance in Business

  edX · Open Education Consortium · 1 HN comments

• Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship

  Coursera · University of Maryland, College Park · 4 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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