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

• coursera.org/learn/progfun1

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

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala

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

• Website Performance Optimization

  Udacity · 3 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Nature, in Code: Biology in JavaScript

  edX · École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne · 3 HN comments

• JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts

  Udemy · Anthony Alicea · 3 HN comments

• JavaScript (JS) Algorithms and Data Structures Masterclass

  Udemy · 2 HN comments

• The Complete 2023 Web Development Bootcamp

  Udemy · 2 HN comments

• CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

  edX · Harvard University · 6 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Nature, in Code: Biology in JavaScript

  edX · École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne · 1 HN comments

• Front End Frameworks

  Udacity · 1 HN comments

• Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails

  edX · University of California, Berkeley · 1 HN comments

• Coding Interview Bootcamp Algorithms, Data Structures Course

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• React - The Complete Guide (incl Hooks, React Router, Redux)

  Udemy · Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller · 1 HN comments

• The Complete Web Developer in 2023: Zero to Mastery

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• JavaScript Design Patterns

  Udacity · 1 HN comments

• Front-End Web Developer

  edX · The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) · 1 HN comments

• The Complete JavaScript Course 2020: Build Real Projects!

  Udemy · Jonas Schmedtmann · 1 HN comments

• React Basics

  Coursera · Meta · 1 HN comments

• Modern Web Geliştirme Kursu | Sıfırdan Sektörün Yükseklerine

  Udemy · Mustafa Murat Coşkun · 1 HN comments

• Web Development: Beginners Guide to Basics (HTML/CSS/JS)

  Udemy · Alan Montgomery · 2 HN points

• JavaScript 360: Complete Introduction to EcmaScript

  Udemy · Dylan Israel · 1 HN points

• Web Applications for Everybody

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 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).

Who are we

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