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Comment by drayfield | Hacker News Reader

I like the idea, but the wording might need to change as to how it counts a recommendation. As it stands Mein Kampf has been "recommended" by 651 HNers, a troubling statistic!

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Noted, pushing a fix for the wording for now. Will also look into improving the recommendations.

Edit: Changed it to "mentioned by"

If you’re using claude to build the whole thing and gather and parse the data, how on earth are you unable to get it to filter out the noise and show recommendations?

Maybe his Claude tokens ran out, and Cursor switched him over to Grok, which highly recommended Mein Kampf.

We will know in a couple days if it is Unser Kampf.

Sure can, coming right along

"Top all-time" should be called "Most mentioned" and it should display the mentions stat followed by the recommends stat

"Most recommended" can stay as it is

and then a new "Top all-time" should be a weighted sum of recommendations plus mentions with recommendations getting a higher weight (obviously) … l33t c0d1ng sk1llz for deducting negative mentions (as in "awful book", "do not recommend" etc)!

To be fair, recommending it doesn't mean endorsing it, just how people read autobiographies of someone they don't like to understand them better. There's probably a bunch of good lessons to take from reading Mein Kampf, it's just that none of them are "this guy was onto something"

It should have been recommended by 1939 HNers.

Hey, maybe the aspiring entrepreneurs just want to emulate the most successful tech bro’s ? ;)

It was infamously on the president's bedside reading list.

If so, I'd bet it's a damn short list.

Yeah we should read an example of a how a guy writes down exactly what hes going to do, tells everyone how hes going to do and ends up doing it because he finds out everyone doesn't believe him and he can just lie about shit publically because no one stops him.

Why would we want to forget such an example?

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