Programming Collective Intelligence
Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaranby Toby Segaran
Shares rank 71 of 115 programming books by recommenders
Recommended for showing how to build search engines, recommenders and classifiers in code. One commenter considers it obsolete.
Recommended for showing how to build search engines, recommenders and classifiers in code. One commenter considers it obsolete.
3 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Inspires building search, recommenders, classifiers
“which inspired me with a range of things, like building search, recommenders, classifiers etc.”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Building a Simple Search Engine That Works”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Called obsolete by a commenter
“it is obsolete in his opinion”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Building a Simple Search Engine That Works”
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| Programming Collective Intelligenceby Toby SegaranThis page | 3 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
2 of the 3 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it is obsolete in his opinion”
“which inspired me with a range of things, like building search, recommenders, classifiers etc.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.