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41 Comments
AndrewStephens
I just can't help myself – I always search for my own blog in lists like this. As expected, I am nowhere in the top 5000.
gavinhoward
Top 1600. Yay!
Edit: wait, that is actually how many points I got. Eh, I am still on the list.
avg_dev
hmmm, prog21.dadgum.com is James Hague, not John Carmack.
interesting site.
Retr0id
Where does the "bio" field come from? Mine says "Developer and writer" and I suppose those are both things that I am, but not very close to what I'd have put there.
azhenley
My blog is both #142 and #274, nice! (Used to use a university domain.)
The combined score puts me at #71 all time or #31 since 2019 when I started writing. Very cool.
lapcat
My blog is 76 all time in the list, except… the author is wrong and the bio is half wrong.
21 the last 12 months.
bobbiechen
I love that dynomight.net stands out with "existential angst" as a very unique category among the top blogs, as well as being written by an anonymous/pseudonymous author. I'm a big fan of their writing.
Also quite surprised to find my own site in the top 5000 for the past 5 years! It feels like Hacker News is simultaneously quite large but also a cozy community where you often recognize names from day to day.
rahimnathwani
Is there a tool which will show me either:
– the blog domains which I tend to comment on (relative to other people, not in absolute terms), or
– the people whose comments I most often reply to?
digdugdirk
Oooo… Can we get an average article ranking?
mrbluecoat
https://sive.rs/ at #20. That's awesome!
serviceberry
Note that this is gonna be skewed pretty heavily toward domains that have existed for most of HN's history, at the expense of any newer domains that had fewer chances to rack up points.
If you look at any 2-4 year period, the ranking tends to be quite different. Well, Paul Graham is there pretty consistently, but everything else changes.
marginalia_nu
Top 75 :O
I've apparently put out some serious bangers to end up in such esteemed company.
serjester
Now someone needs to build semantic search over this to find hidden gem authors on any topic.
pprunty
The most popular blog is the owner's blog? What is this, X…? :D
Mistletoe
I’ve been thinking of starting an anonymous blog with my thoughts just to record them and any projects I do. I want them to be visible on the internet and searchable instead of behind some facebook or instagram wall. What is a good blog service to use that will be around for decades? I don’t really want to run my own domain. Do things like Blogger and Blogspot still exist and will they continue to in the future?
OgsyedIE
I had to fiddle with the dates to find a couple examples of blogs that violate the single-author rule in the methodology (marginalrevolution, ribbonfarm) but it's probably better to have them included.
Even though a glance suggests the majority of high-scorers are self-hosted, I wonder if this dataset is valuable for predicting the strength of different blog hosts. Some fiddling did lead to a couple results that are hosted on Blogger or Ghost or Medium, so they are there.
Swizec
Wow I am the 511th top blog :O No author, bio, or tags though. Sad.
Honestly HackerNews has been a great place to grow up. Started posting here back in college when I was 21 or so. Now here we still are at 37.
I credit hacker news with getting me from Slovenia to San Francisco. It's been a great journey so far. Some of which has made it to the front page <3
omoikane
I find it surprising that Ken Shirriff's blog[1] didn't make it to the top 5000. Does it not count as a blog?
Looks like it's explicitly excluded[2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com
[2] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/d…
Havoc
TIL Krebs is a personal blog! I had assumed it is a team
tathagatadg
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a planet like rss feed from these?
ProAm
paulg's blog shouldnt count as for its an extension of this and more of a long game sales pitch tailored for different purposes. Not a bad thing, but I just wouldnt consider it a blog.
codazoda
Whoa, I made the list, but just barely, #4752.
HN has been a fantastic community for me.
goostavos
4443! Heck yah. Although, it's weird that I'm listed as having "career advice."
Nobody should listen to me. I have no idea what I'm doing.
larsiusprime
Woo-hoo, # 265 :) FortressOfDoors.com
But my name is Lars Doucet, not Keith Burgun (that's KeithBurgen.net)
Happy to be included!
larsiusprime
Interesting that if you were to combine AstralCodexTen and SlateStarCodex it would be around top #20. Even with the traffic split he's in the top 50 twice.
jppope
Happy to be included at #4429. thank you!
softwaredoug
Is there a meta tag I’m missing on my blog to have my name be consumed into something like this? Curious how they get the names
throwawayk7h
Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten should probably be combined. Also, it's odd that while ACX's author is listed as "Scott Alexander" (his long-time pseudonym), SSC's is listed as "anonymous." He went by Scott Alexander even in the days of SSC.
t0astbread
Now we can place bets on personal blogs!
$50 that xeiaso.net will overtake justine.lol this year. (Kidding of course, they're two of my favorite sites.)
MartijnBraam
Oh wow I did not expect to make it into the top 500 :D
It's only barely there at 480 but still.. that reminds me it's been too long since I've written a post.
jcrben
Snapshot for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20250326005255/https://refactori…
hyruo
A simple statistics of the top 5,000 blog domain names shows that 54% use .com, 14% use .org, 7% use .io (40% of which are github.io), and 6% use .net. These five together account for 81%.
baby
I'm top 2049 with cryptologie.net !
rietta
I am #3133! Fun.
mtlynch
Author here.
I tried submitting this as a Show HN a couple times but it didn't take, so I'm happy to see some interest!
I caught this just before bed, but I'm happy to take any suggestions or questions, and I'll answer in the morning.
If you'd like to improve the metadata, I welcome PRs here: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data
TacticalCoder
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surprisetalk
I maintain a shuffled list of HN blogs here:
[1] https://blogs.hn
Please add your site or make corrections :)
[2] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn
otras
For years, I've been good heartedly losing the blog SEO ranking fight to a great developer and writer who has the same name as me. A football player eclipses us both if you just google our shared name, but if you add any sort of "developer" or "programming", he's clearly got me beat for the top marks. It makes sense — he writes about tech much more consistently than I do, and his articles are likely much more helpful than my sporadic and eclectic posts.
Naturally, being vain, when I saw this post, I immediately looked up my own blog and was chuffed to see it at #292.
But, guess who I see just above at #289.
surprisetalk
Here's a Bluesky starter pack:
[1] https://go.bsky.app/HmV5x47
curtisszmania
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marc_abonce
I found it interesting to notice that a couple of politicians made it to the list, all 3 of them from Pirate parties it seems.
But I think one of these entries needs to be updated, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Reda