HN.Academy
Learning and science
online course directory
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
10 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 14 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 5 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful curated resource for finding courses
From 4 comments
This list mostly passes the gut check: the courses near the top are almost universally high quality, and quite reputable. Now, why did I say "mostly" and "almost"? Two reasons:…
projectramo on HNLove this! Thank you!
jefflombardjr on HNThis is awesome!
wpmoradi on HNI've been looking for something like this, thank you a lot! I wonder if something similar exists for HN book recommendations?
feluso on HN
Recommendations and upvotes surface good content
From 1 comment
Recommendations and upvotes are a neat little signal to make sticky content rise to the top. This site is a great example.
state_less on HN
Objections
Popup subscribe box is intrusive
From 1 comment
The pop-up to subscribe every 2 seconds is extremely off-putting. Made me want to just close the tab multiple times. The curated content only kept me from doing it. Edit: Nice…
tyagis on HN
Ranking favours popularity and can surface outdated courses
From 3 comments
It would be helpful to be able to filter between free and paid off the main list.
samstave on HNRecommendations need to decay by date more. Eg, the Johns Hopkins University "Data Science" course isn't worth doing (unless maybe it has been updated?), and note that most of…
nl on HNHmm... where are Gilbert Strang his courses? He is recommended quite a bit, isn't he?
mettamage on HN
Affiliate links not clearly disclosed
From 2 comments
You know these are all affiliate links?
smarttack on HNThis is a useful site, but you should probably disclose on it somewhere that you're getting affiliate revenue from every person clicking through and signing up for Coursera…
Asparagirl on HN
Requests
Search and filtering by subject, free or paid
From 2 comments
Awesome work! It'd be neat if there was a search feature that let us search by subject or keyword or any other course metadata.
time0ut on HNIt would be helpful to be able to filter between free and paid off the main list.
samstave on HN
Lists for other categories such as books, games, or finance
From 3 comments
I like the idea. Would be interesting to see Gadgets recommended by HN users, Travel destinations recommended by HN users, Books recommended by HN users, Games recommended by HN…
taherchhabra on HNI've been looking for something like this, thank you a lot! I wonder if something similar exists for HN book recommendations?
feluso on HNAny list like this one for finance / investing material? Thanks for the resource - will be put to good use. I’d love it if there were categories for paid, non-paid and overall…
mrhappyunhappy on HN
Include Udacity and fast.ai courses
From 2 comments
This list mostly passes the gut check: the courses near the top are almost universally high quality, and quite reputable. Now, why did I say "mostly" and "almost"? Two reasons:…
projectramo on HNYou're missing fast.ai for machine learning. It's been mentioned or linked 700+ times on HN.
gregw134 on HN
Questions
How the site was built and how courses are detected
From 1 comment
I am curious to know how you built it, do you keep polling for the new a items on the HN? How do you figure out if it's a course? Do you use regexes for it or something more…
aashu_dwivedi on HN
Why certain courses appear or are missing
From 2 comments
Looks like the list counts complaints that a course does not exist as a recommendation, or why is the Crypto II course on coursere in the list? What was the original start date,…
fhars on HNWhere's SICP ?
lbj on HN
Alternatives named
Coursera, edX and Udacity course catalogs
From 2 comments
I mostly agree. However, the rankings surface the "most recommended" courses not the "best". "Most recommended" being more objective (easier turn into a number) than "best".…
yaj54 on HNA while back I wanted to learn about SLAM, computer vision, robotics, drones, etc. I did all the following courses which had significant overlap in materials:…
zawerf on HN
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures
From 1 comment
I took the one and only Linear Algebra course cited in this list and did not care for it. I found Strang's MIT course on the subject much better. I seem to recall reading other's…
maroonblazer on HN