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

• Probabilistic Graphical Models 1: Representation

  Coursera · Stanford University · 15 HN comments

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 HN comments

• Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

  Coursera · University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics · 10 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Probabilistic Graphical Models

  Coursera · Stanford University · 4 HN comments

• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 3 HN comments

• Introduction to Probability

  edX · Harvard University · 2 HN comments

• Computational Probability and Inference

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 HN points

• Introduction to Probability

  edX · Harvard University · 2 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Combinatorics and Probability

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 1 HN comments

• Computational Probability and Inference

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Math behind Moneyball

  Coursera · University of Houston System · 1 HN comments

• Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up

  edX · Harvard University · 2 HN points

• Probability and Statistics in Data Science using Python

  edX · The University of California, San Diego · 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).

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