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Ramiro Gómez
ramiro.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Ramiro Gómez writes about Python data projects, maps, and Hacker News analysis, including the most-linked books on Amazon.
What HN saysHN commenters link his list of top books based on HN comment links as a book recommendation source, noting popularity doesn't mean quality.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments9 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2016 · 181 comments on HN
- 2Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking Them in Comments2 people · 295 points · first shared 2016 · 39 comments on HN
- 3Drawing a Map from Pub Locations with the Matplotlib Basemap Toolkit2 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population1 people · 149 points · first shared 2016 · 158 comments on HN
- 5Show HN: Country Shape Quiz: Guess Countries from Their Geographical Shapes1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6The Best Times to Post to Reddit Revisited1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Creating a Choropleth Map of the World in Python Using GeoPandas1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8Show HN: Search Hacker News Submissions and Download Results1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Top Ranking Posts for News.YCombinator.com on Reddit1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10Exploring the Top Incomes Database with Pandas and Matplotlib • IPython Notebook1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11What Are the Most Edited Pages in the English Wikipedia? • Jupyter Notebook1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12Graphit1 people · first shared 2016
- 13Income software engineers countries1 people · first shared 2018
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keane · 2026-07-07
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432 and https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-time/page/0… and https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/ – it doesn't exactly mean good but it also doesn't mean nothing
r3n · 2018-07-13
Not new books, just something I'm currently reading.
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
This book teach you about depression and how you can apply cognitive therapy techniques to help you. I'm in the second part of the book and already learn some valuable information. It seems like HN recommend this book as well [1].
- Common Sense on Mutual Funds
One of the classic investment books from John C. Bogle. In this book he talks about what he think is the better way to invest in mutual funds and why.
This is one of the reading assignment form another short book I'm reading called "If You Can" [2], which recommended by Bogleheads.
[1] http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
[2] https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
Healplz · 2016-09-02
Have you seen the awesome list[1] Ramiro Gomez put together? Lot of great non-tech books on there.
[1] http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
louprado · 2016-08-26
There are quite a few book recommenders based on HN data. This recent one came to mind:
Top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
I am surprised that someone doesn't solve this problem once and for all by allowing decent search parameters (e.g., all time, last month, by karma, by genre, etc.).
This latest submission weights by karma and bins the results weekly. Those restrictions make it personally unappealing but it is a great first step. I wouldn't have thought to consider karma.
Edit: clarity
namaljayathunga · 2020-11-08
Analyzing Hacker News, This suggest some books
https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
odie88 · 2020-03-26
MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018.
The site uses Amazon affiliate links.
There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since most comments on those threads don’t include links. More about the data can be found on the About page.
This is also my first Elixir + Phoenix project, which was a joy to use once I got moving.
[1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/
[2] https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
egman_ekki · 2018-02-09
Would be interesting to hear what data sources you used. There was an article on bloomberg about the same metric, but it's 404 now. Seems like the data has been used in this map, though: http://ramiro.org/map/world/income-software-engineers-countries/
(Results are quite different to yours, but this data is 4 yrs old)
xadoc · 2017-08-09
I have not, thanks for sharing it is nice that also collects links from Reddit.
Other similar websites
Most mentioned in StackOverflow http://dev-books.com/
Most mentioned in Hacker News
http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
Recommended books by guests in Developer on Fire podcast
http://developeronfire.com/book-recommendations
Personal lists
Jeff Atwood:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-developers/
Joel Spolsky:
http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html
DHH:
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming-books-that-me…
Steve Yegge:
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-great-books
John Sonmez: https://simpleprogrammer.com/2015/03/23/the-ultimate-list-of-programmi…
gkst · 2016-06-28
Exciting release! I played with the force layout on canvas to graph reddit conversations http://ramiro.org/tool/graphit/
It's harder to get interaction done with canvas compared to SVG, but for large graphs the performance gains are huge. Curious to dive into the other new features.
Thanks for this incredible piece of software mbostock!
davej · 2016-03-05
This comes up quite often, here are two helpful links:
http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
http://www.hnreads.com/