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

• coursera.org/learn/progfun1

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

• Programming Languages, Part A

  Coursera · University of Washington · 60 HN points · 69 HN comments

• An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)

  Coursera · Rice University · 56 HN points · 13 HN comments

• Functional Programming in Erlang

  FutureLearn · The University of Kent · 83 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Introduction to Functional Programming

  edX · Delft University of Technology · 55 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding

  FutureLearn · The University of Glasgow · 69 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Paradigms of Computer Programming – Fundamentals

  edX · Université catholique de Louvain · 46 HN points · 9 HN comments

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala

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

• Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

  Coursera · École normale supérieure · 7 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b

  Coursera · Offered by University of Washington · 5 HN comments

• Introduction to Functional Programming

  edX · Delft University of Technology · 3 HN points · 4 HN comments

• F# From the Ground Up

  Udemy · Kit Eason · 1 HN points · 2 HN comments

• The Complete Elixir and Phoenix Bootcamp

  Udemy · Stephen Grider · 3 HN comments

• Functional Program Design in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Parallel programming

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 3 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Combinatorics and Probability

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to Graph Theory

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN comments

• Effective Programming in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 1 HN comments

• Kotlin for Java Developers

  Coursera · JetBrains · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to Ableton Live

  Coursera · Berklee College of Music · 1 HN comments

• COBOL Programming with VSCode

  Coursera · IBM · 1 HN comments

• Learning Functional Programming with F#

  Udemy · 2 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-c

  Coursera · Offered by University of Washington · 1 HN comments

• Python Programming Essentials

  Coursera · Rice University · 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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