Developer builds HackerBooks, an HN book index, using Claude

Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube, a developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build HackerBooks, indexing about 16.5k books mentioned by at least two HN commenters since 2007, each linked to its comments, with downloadable data. The author says Claude wrote almost all the code.

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