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

• Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning

  Udacity · 645 HN points · 16 HN comments

• Deep Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 16 HN points · 26 HN comments

• Deep Learning Online Course

  Udacity · 83 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 9 HN comments

• AI For Everyone

  Coursera · deeplearning · 11 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Mastering OCR using Deep Learning and OpenCV-Python

  Udemy · 16 HN points

• Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN comments

• Convolutional Neural Networks

  Coursera · deeplearning · 3 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Intro to Deep Learning with PyTorch

  Udacity · 7 HN points

• Structuring Machine Learning Projects

  Coursera · deeplearning · 3 HN comments

• Mathematics & Statistics of Machine Learning & Data Science

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Deep Reinforcement Learning Online Course

  Udacity · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

  Coursera · deeplearning · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning

  Coursera · National Research University Higher School of Economics · 1 HN comments

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

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Natural Language Processing

  Coursera · National Research University Higher School of Economics · 4 HN points

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

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 4 HN points

• Sequence Models

  Coursera · deeplearning · 3 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

  Coursera · deeplearning · 2 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Deep Learning for Beginners: Neural Networks in R Studio

  Udemy · Start-Tech Academy · 2 HN points

• Free Deep Learning Tutorial - Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Networks for developers

  Udemy · 2 HN points

• Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow

  Coursera · deeplearning · 2 HN points

• Launching into Machine Learning

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 1 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).

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