[HN Gopher] The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
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The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
Author : sharjeelsayed
Score : 88 points
Date : 2025-03-25 18:48 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| AndrewStephens wrote:
| 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.
| soupfordummies wrote:
| Well I clicked through and bookmarked it :)
| kstrauser wrote:
| Tap of the beer glass to my similarly low-ranking compatriots.
| jll29 wrote:
| It may console you: in some sense, the top 4900 are more
| valuable than the top-100.
|
| Why? Everybody here knows Paul Graham. I know Krebs and
| Schneier, most of you will, too. In a long tail distribution
| like this, the top entries (left) are the obvious ones, the
| lowest frequented ones (right) might be noise (artifact of the
| methods e.g. bugs in the data cleaning), but the middle part is
| really where the value is: blogs we don't know but would like
| to know.
|
| In search engine ranking, people needed a lot of time until the
| late Karen Sparck Jones finally discovered IDF (inverse
| document [collection] frequency) in 1972, the "Yang" to raw
| term frequency (TF), which had been the "Yin" that was missing
| a counterforce to retrieve truly relevant documents when
| balanced in the TFIDF formula.
|
| So, plea to the OP: please release the rest of your list
| (101-100000).
| gavinhoward wrote:
| Top 1600. Yay!
|
| Edit: wait, that is actually how many points I got. Eh, I am
| still on the list.
| soupfordummies wrote:
| LOL, enjoyed your most recent two posts. Too true buddy.
| gavinhoward wrote:
| I am glad I am not alone with AoC. :)
| avg_dev wrote:
| hmmm, prog21.dadgum.com is James Hague, not John Carmack.
|
| interesting site.
| Retr0id wrote:
| 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.
| serviceberry wrote:
| I'm guessing it's annotated by an LLM. Would be a lot of
| thankless work otherwise, so don't really blame the author, but
| it means you get the occasional nonsense summary.
|
| Edit: yeah, the "methodology" page confirms this.
| azhenley wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Oooo... Can we get an average article ranking?
| mrbluecoat wrote:
| https://sive.rs/ at #20. That's awesome!
| serviceberry wrote:
| 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.
| geerlingguy wrote:
| You can change the date ranges (e.g. just the YTD, or last 12
| months, or set a custom range), and it gives an interesting
| overview of the evolution over time.
|
| Like jvns.ca drops off the list entirely for 2025, but was
| consistently in the top 5 until last year.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Top 75 :O
|
| I've apparently put out some serious bangers to end up in such
| esteemed company.
| serjester wrote:
| Now someone needs to build semantic search over this to find
| hidden gem authors on any topic.
| pprunty wrote:
| The most popular blog is the owner's blog? What is this, X...? :D
| Mistletoe wrote:
| 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?
| akomtu wrote:
| github pages? you get a foobar.github.io domain for free with
| an option to link it to your own domain
| OgsyedIE wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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].
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| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com
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| [2] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-
| data/blob/d...
| Havoc wrote:
| TIL Krebs is a personal blog! I had assumed it is a team
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