A developer created HackerBooks, a searchable collection of roughly 16,500 books mentioned at least twice in Hacker News comments over nearly two decades. The site was built almost entirely by Claude Opus, an AI assistant, with the developer handling direction, decisions, and domain registration. Each book entry links back to the original comments that mentioned it, and the full dataset is available for download.
The tool mirrors HackerTube, a similar project that surfaces popular videos from the same community. Because the system counts mentions rather than sentiment, books praised and criticized alike appear in the same database. The creator has invited corrections for missing titles or mismatched entries.
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