Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow(doctorow.medium.com)

187 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 125 comments

The No Asshole Rule(en.wikipedia.org)

19 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 16 comments

Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m(keith-mcnulty.medium.com)

486 points by keithmcnulty 3 years ago | 138 comments

A Medium article by Keith McNulty explaining why 2 and 4 are the only distinct positive integers satisfying m^n = n^m.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)(orwell.ru)

25 points by allthebest 3 years ago | 5 comments

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

The economics and politics of Thomas the Tank Engine (2015)(medium.com)

29 points by JacobAldridge 3 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN(hackerbooks.org)

1735 points by roansh 1 day ago | 283 comments

HackerBooks is a browsable site of about 16.5k books recommended in Hacker News comments since 2007, with filters by decade and topic and links back to the comments.

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts(hn.watch)

193 points by mrborgen 1 month ago | 96 comments

HN.watch is a Hacker News front-page mirror that generates short AI explainer videos for each story, built by Scrimba to demo its Scrimba Explain tool.

Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN(news.ycombinator.com)

153 points by mw888 9 hours ago | 22 comments

Show HN post for HackerHack, a HackerBooks-style project for HN posts; the link loaded Hacker News's rate-limit error page instead.

Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll(dm.hn)

874 points by deathbypenguin 3 years ago | 182 comments

A searchable table of personal blogs shared by Hacker News users in the Ask HN thread "Could you share your personal blog here?"

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025(hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app)

550 points by seinvak 10 months ago | 193 comments

A web app listing books mentioned in Hacker News comments during 2025, ranked by mention count with the related comments shown alongside.

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed(xikipedia.org)

379 points by rebane2001 9 months ago | 126 comments

Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that shows Simple Wikipedia articles, using a local non-ML algorithm that learns what you engage with.