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

• Mathematics for Machine Learning

  Coursera · Imperial College London · 106 HN points · 4 HN comments

• VLSI CAD Part I: Logic

  Coursera · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 8 HN comments

• Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers

  edX · The University of Texas at Austin · 6 HN points · 4 HN comments

• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 3 HN comments

• Digital Signal Processing

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 1 HN points · 6 HN comments

• Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers

  edX · The University of Texas at Austin · 5 HN comments

• Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra

  Coursera · Imperial College London · 2 HN comments

• Robotics: Aerial Robotics

  Coursera · University of Pennsylvania · 2 HN comments

• Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers

  edX · The University of Texas at Austin · 1 HN comments

• Applications of Linear Algebra Part 1

  edX · Davidson College · 1 HN comments

• Linear Algebra Refresher Course

  Udacity · 1 HN comments

• Master Linear Algebra: From Theory to Implementation

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Quantum Information Science I, Part 1

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Applications of Linear Algebra Part 1

  edX · Davidson College · 1 HN comments

• High-Dimensional Data Analysis

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN comments

• Quantum Information Science I, Part 1

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Natural Language Processing

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

• VLSI CAD Part II: Layout

  Coursera · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 1 HN comments

• Self-Driving Cars

  Coursera · University of Toronto · 2 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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