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

• Circuits and Electronics 1: Basic Circuit Analysis

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 11 HN comments

• Securing Digital Democracy

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 9 HN comments

• Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds

  edX · University of California, Berkeley · 2 HN comments

• Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design

  Udemy · Andre LaMothe · 2 HN comments

• Circuits and Electronics 2: Amplification, Speed, and Delay

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 4 HN comments

• Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics

  Coursera · University of Rochester · 1 HN comments

• Circuits and Electronics 3: Applications

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Circuits and Electronics 1: Basic Circuit Analysis

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Electricity & electronics - Robotics, learn by building

  Udemy · Ian Juby · 1 HN comments

• Circuits and Electronics 3: Applications

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Introduction to Electronics

  Coursera · Georgia Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Graphene Science and Technology

  edX · Chalmers University of Technology · 2 HN points

• Introduction to Power Electronics

  Coursera · University of Colorado Boulder · 1 HN points

• Introduction to battery-management systems

  Coursera · University of Colorado System · 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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