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The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
points · traction gained Oct 15, 14:14 UTC → Oct 16, 14:01 UTC
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 164h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Oct 9, 17:39 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 190points
- Comments
- Rank in WRIT this week
- —not listed in the last 7 days
- Rank overall this week
- —
- Sector hit rate
- 5.3%1/19 · 7D
- Traction line
- Hit10+ points
- First reading
- 137Oct 10, 11:16 UTC
- Last reading
- 190Oct 16, 14:01 UTC
- Readings
- 8over 164h
Launch-day race · #4 of 117 Show HN launches on 2026-10-09
- #2Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen419 points
- #3Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser241 points
- #4The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read190 points
- #5Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes92 points
- #6Apogee66 points
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Data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works