Blog directory

Every blog with at least one post that made it on Hacker News, ranked by the points its posts collected. 22,222 blogs.

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#BlogBest-known postPostsPoints
101 Monday Notemondaynote.com Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust 45 8,655
102 Grady Hillhousepractical.engineering How French Drains Work 29 8,616
103 Russ Coxresearch.swtch.com Timeline of the xz open source attack 43 8,465
104 Jeff Kaufmanjefftk.com Mercury Spill 31 8,461
105 Patrick Breyerpatrick-breyer.de EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 21 8,444
106 Eli Benderskyeli.thegreenplace.net Making any integer with four 2s 57 8,409
107 Reginald Braithwaiteraganwald.posterous.com I hereby resign 27 8,394
108 Scott Alexanderastralcodexten.substack.com Heuristics that almost always work 34 8,250
109 Scott Aaronsonscottaaronson.blog The Google Willow Thing 31 8,248
110 Alyssa Rosenzweigrosenzweig.io The first conformant M1 GPU driver 13 8,220
111 Jason Scott (ASCII)ascii.textfiles.com The Other Half 36 8,206
112 James Hagueprog21.dadgum.com Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) 42 8,018
113 jwzjwz.org Watch a VC use my name to sell a con 32 7,871
114 Jacob Kaplan-Mossjacobian.org Embrace the Grind 32 7,837
115 Steve Klabnikwords.steveklabnik.com A Sad Day for Rust 28 7,764
116 James Longjlongster.com A future for SQL on the web 32 7,722
117 Michael Fogusblog.fogus.me Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) 38 7,719
118 Maurycymaurycyz.com What an unprocessed photo looks like 15 7,693
119 Mat Dugganmatduggan.com Fixing Macs door to door 25 7,693
120 Derek Siverssive.rs Writing one sentence per line 23 7,683
121 Steven Wittens (Acko.net)acko.net TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement 25 7,682
122 Matt Mightmatt.might.net Hunting Down My Son's Killer 32 7,559
123 Jason Cohen (A Smart Bear)blog.asmartbear.com The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company 49 7,522
124 Benedict Evansben-evans.com How will OpenAI compete? 41 7,250
125 John Regehrblog.regehr.org A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code 41 7,180
126 Stephen Wolframblog.stephenwolfram.com Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure 25 7,177
127 Bret Victorworrydream.com Bret Victor: Learnable Programming 22 7,177
128 Kevin Kellykk.org Bits of advice I wish I had known 29 7,117
129 Nolan Lawsonnolanlawson.com Using AI to write better code more slowly 18 7,114
130 Andrej Karpathykarpathy.github.io Microgpt 12 7,041
131 Andy Baiowaxy.org The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS 16 6,984
132 Hillel Waynebuttondown.com Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems 39 6,975
133 Evan Millerevanmiller.org Attention Is Off By One 22 6,957
134 Aaron Swartzaaronsw.com If I get hit by a truck... 41 6,923
135 Patrick McKenziebitsaboutmoney.com Anatomy of a credit card rewards program 24 6,918
136 George Hotzgeohot.github.io Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns 23 6,889
137 Filippo Valsordawords.filippo.io Turn Dependabot off 26 6,821
138 Marginaliamarginalia.nu Full Time 19 6,809
139 Austin Z. Henleyweb.eecs.utk.edu/~azh Challenging projects every programmer should try 17 6,808
140 Cal Patersoncalpaterson.com Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 18 6,756
141 Paul Buchheitpaulbuchheit.blogspot.com A Third Solution 29 6,727
142 Ed Zitronwheresyoured.at The man who killed Google Search? 26 6,568
143 Yossi Kreininyosefk.com Advantages of incompetent management 31 6,559
144 Craig Kerstienscraigkerstiens.com Give Me Back My Monolith 24 6,486
145 Raph Levienraphlinus.github.io Xi-Editor Retrospective 27 6,450
146 Gary Marcusgarymarcus.substack.com The whole thing was a scam 24 6,439
147 Dominic Szablewskiphoboslab.org QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time 25 6,349
148 Marginal Revolutionmarginalrevolution.com Jake Seliger has died 33 6,290
149 Mark Litwintschiktech.marksblogg.com OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles 29 6,254
150 Scott Helmescotthelme.co.uk Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds 18 6,245