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

• Mathematics for Machine Learning

  Coursera · Imperial College London · 106 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Calculus: Single Variable Part 1 - Functions

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 11 HN comments

• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 3 HN comments

• Single Variable Calculus

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 2 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/analysis-of-algorithms

  Coursera · Offered by Princeton University · 2 HN comments

• Analytic Combinatorics

  Coursera · Princeton University · 3 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Multivariable Calculus 1: Vectors and Derivatives

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 5 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Principles of Economics with Calculus

  edX · Caltech · 1 HN comments

• Calculus: Single Variable Part 4 - Applications

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 1 HN comments

• Calculus: Single Variable Part 3 - Integration

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 1 HN comments

• Calculus: Single Variable Part 2 - Differentiation

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 1 HN comments

• College Algebra and Problem Solving

  edX · Arizona State University · 1 HN comments

• Calculus 1A: Differentiation

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Precalculus

  edX · Arizona State University · 1 HN comments

• FA18: Database Systems Concepts and Design

  edX · The Georgia Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Multivariable Calculus 2: Integrals

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 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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