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

• Science Matters: Let's Talk About COVID-19

  Coursera · Imperial College London, Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) · 25 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Child Nutrition and Cooking

  Coursera · Stanford University · 3 HN comments

• Financial Accounting Fundamentals

  Coursera · University of Virginia · 2 HN comments

• Science of Exercise

  Coursera · University of Colorado Boulder · 1 HN comments

• Food for Thought

  edX · McGill · 1 HN comments

• Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome

  Coursera · University of Colorado Boulder · 2 HN comments

• Psychological First Aid

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 1 HN comments

• Nutrition and Health: Human Microbiome

  edX · Wageningen University & Research · 1 HN comments

• Introduction to Biomedical Imaging

  edX · The University of Queensland · 1 HN comments

• AI for Medicine

  Coursera · deeplearning · 4 HN points

• coursera.org/learn/hacking-exercise-health

  Coursera · Offered by McMaster University · 1 HN comments

• Sit Less, Get Active

  Coursera · The University of Edinburgh · 1 HN points

• The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals

  edX · Open Education Consortium · 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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