Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by seinvak » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
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Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by codingdave » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

Affiliate marketing is such a mixed bag. I absolutely love it when people can monetize their writing by adding some affiliate links that are relevant to the audience - win/win for all sides. Yet it is as slimy as anything else when the sole purpose of creating content is to publish affiliate links.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by seinvak » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #2

Affiliate marketing is such a mixed bag. I absolutely love it when people can monetize their writing by adding some affiliate links that are relevant to the audience - win/win for all sides. Yet it is as slimy as anything else when the sole purpose of creating content is to publish affiliate links.

My bad — probably should’ve added a disclaimer :) For what it’s worth, I only added sponsored links to the top ~50 books out of ~10k total. Mostly just trying to cover the cost of a decent domain so I can keep the site running.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by odie5533 » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

Great books listed here! Added some to my TBR list. Thanks! I'm a little surprised the numbers aren't higher across the board.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by Insanity » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol..

Nice website though, I like it.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by mitthrowaway2 » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #5

The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.

It seems to have mainly come up in discussions about banned books, rather than discussions about popular fascist movements, so it might not be saying what most people would first assume.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by Insanity » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #6

Insanity wrote: post #5

The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.

It seems to have mainly come up in discussions about banned books, rather than discussions about popular fascist movements, so it might not be saying what most people would first assume.

Good catch, I didn’t read through the comments where it’s mentioned.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by mohamez » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #5

The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.

I'm really trying so hard to understand how did you come up with this correlation.

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by an0malous » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #5

The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.

I think 1984 is more of a sign of the times, and not just mentioned in the context of banned book threads

Re: Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

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Post by babblingfish » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

Neat. I'm seeing a lot of overlap with books mentioned on r/reddit. I didn't realize, until know, how demographically similar hacker news and reddit are.