About HackerZon

HackerZon lists 9,532 Amazon products that Hacker News users linked in their comments between 2007 and 2026. Inspired by HackerTube and HackerBooks. Books are left out; HackerBooks covers them.

How it is made

• All HN comments come from the open-index/hacker-news dataset (ODC-BY). We kept every comment that links an Amazon product page (/dp/ or /gp/product/).
• Each product was looked up in Amazon's catalog on 2026-11-02. 8,482 were found. 1,050 are marked "No longer on Amazon"; their name comes from the link.
• Topics were assigned by a language model from the product title and the HN comment. Some will be wrong.
• "HN users" counts different HN accounts that linked the product. The same user linking it again counts once.

Not affiliated

Not affiliated with Hacker News, Y Combinator or Amazon. Amazon links are plain links without an affiliate tag. Prices are not shown.