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

• Functional Programming in Scala

  Coursera · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · 227 HN points · 29 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/progfun1

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

• Programming Languages, Part A

  Coursera · University of Washington · 60 HN points · 69 HN comments

• coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2

  Coursera · Offered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem · 154 HN points · 10 HN comments

• An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)

  Coursera · Rice University · 56 HN points · 13 HN comments

• Design of Computer Programs | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 2 HN points · 24 HN comments

• Functional Programming in Erlang

  FutureLearn · The University of Kent · 83 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Introduction to Functional Programming

  edX · Delft University of Technology · 55 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Artificial Intelligence for Robotics | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 3 HN points · 20 HN comments

• Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding

  FutureLearn · The University of Glasgow · 69 HN points · 2 HN comments

• Discrete Optimization

  Coursera · The University of Melbourne · 18 HN comments

• How to Code: Simple Data

  edX · University of British Columbia · 6 HN points · 21 HN comments

• Introduction to Python Programming | Udacity

  Udacity · 16 HN comments

• CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN points · 16 HN comments

• Paradigms of Computer Programming – Fundamentals

  edX · Université catholique de Louvain · 46 HN points · 9 HN comments

• Explore our Programs and Courses | Udacity Catalog

  Udacity · 11 HN comments

• C++ For C Programmers, Part B

  Coursera · University of California, Santa Cruz · 47 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala

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

• Data Structures and Algorithms

  Coursera · University of California San Diego · 5 HN points · 8 HN comments

• How to Code: Complex Data

  edX · University of British Columbia · 13 HN comments

• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 8 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

  Coursera · University of Michigan · 2 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Software Development

  edX · University of British Columbia · 4 HN points · 13 HN comments

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  Coursera · DeepLearning.AI · 9 HN comments

• Software Debugging

  Udacity · 12 HN comments

• CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

  edX · Harvard University · 6 HN comments

• Online Courses & Programs | Udacity Catalog

  Udacity · 2 HN points · 7 HN comments

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 HN comments

• Programming Languages

  Udacity · 5 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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