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

• Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 34 HN points · 177 HN comments

• Mathematics for Machine Learning

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

• Deep Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 16 HN points · 26 HN comments

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 14 HN comments

• Become a Self-Driving Car Engineer

  Udacity · 26 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Probabilistic Graphical Models 1: Representation

  Coursera · Stanford University · 15 HN comments

• Introduction to Machine Learning | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 10 HN comments

• Machine Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 17 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 9 HN comments

• Machine Learning

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN points · 6 HN comments

• Machine Learning

  Udacity · 5 HN comments

• Learning From Data

  edX · Caltech · 10 HN points · 4 HN comments

• How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers

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

• Data Science at Scale

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Spark

  edX · University of California, Berkeley · 5 HN comments

• AI For Everyone

  Coursera · deeplearning · 11 HN points · 1 HN comments

• What is Reinforcement Learning? | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 4 HN comments

• Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps)

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 2 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Become a Machine Learning Engineer

  Udacity · 2 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Machine Learning for Trading | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 3 HN comments

• Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP

  Coursera · Google Cloud · 2 HN comments

• Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN comments

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  edX · Columbia University · 3 HN comments

• Learning From Data (Introductory Machine Learning)

  edX · Caltech · 2 HN comments

• Introduction to Computer Vision | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra

  Coursera · Imperial College London · 2 HN comments

• Learning From Data (Introductory Machine Learning)

  edX · Caltech · 4 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Essential Math for Machine Learning: Python Edition

  edX · Microsoft · 2 HN comments

• Computational Probability and Inference

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 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).

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