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HNMovies
2,280+ films & docs distilled from 20 years of Hacker News
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2,280+ films & docs distilled from 20 years of Hacker News
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HNMovies distills 49.3M Hacker News comments (2007–present) into a ranked screening room of 2,281 feature films and standalone documentaries. Filters out technical collisions (Solaris, Threads, Primer) and meme one-liners, with an obscurity slider for hidden gems (<60k IMDb votes), 20-year mention curves, verbatim HN threads, and an open Hugging Face dataset updated weekly.
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Inspired by HackerBooks and HackerTube, I wanted to find the feature films and standalone documentaries that Hacker News commenters genuinely recommend — without technical collisions or meme noise taking over the rankings.
When you scan 49.3 million HN items (2006–present), naive string matching breaks in funny ways: Solaris (1972) matches SunOS/ZFS threads, Threads (1984) matches POSIX pthreads, Serenity (2005) matches SerenityOS, Primer (2004) matches programming tutorials, and Idiocracy or Office Space top the chart purely from one-line jokes.
HNMovies resolves citations 1:1 against IMDb (>= 250 votes, strictly movies and standalone documentaries), penalizes meme metaphors, and weights distinct recommending commenters + 20-year survival.
My favorite part is dragging the Obscurity slider (< 60k IMDb votes) — it immediately surfaces high-conviction cult classics and tech documentaries like General Magic, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Get Lamp, and Tim's Vermeer, each with verbatim HN quotes linked back to the original threads.
Both the site and the open Parquet/JSONL dataset on Hugging Face (gnumanth/hnmovies) update automatically every week. Would love to hear what hidden gems it surfaces for you!