Hacker Blog Posts

Blog directory

Every blog with at least one post that made it on Hacker News, ranked by the points its posts collected. 22,224 blogs.

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PointsPostsCitedRecently activeA–Z
#BlogBest-known postPostsPoints
1751 Russell O'Connorr6.ca Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? 6 1,177
1752 Cory Dransfeldtcoryd.dev I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music 4 1,177
1753 Andrew Plotkinblog.zarfhome.com A treasury of Zork maps 6 1,177
1754 Jonas Hietalajonashietala.se Why I still blog after 15 years 5 1,176
1755 slashcrypto.org Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box 3 1,176
1756 Ted Newardblogs.newardassociates.com Modules, not microservices 2 1,175
1757 Keith Petersbit-101.com A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics 5 1,175
1758 medium.com/@adshadlabs Why you should never use Upwork 1 1,175
1759 What If? (xkcd)what-if.xkcd.com How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house? 15 1,174
1760 Tom Critchlowtomcritchlow.com Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work 6 1,174
1761 Max Goodmanchromakode.com Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" 3 1,173
1762 The HFT Guythehftguy.wordpress.com Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS 2 1,173
1763 Tanner Greerscholars-stage.org I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021) 7 1,172
1764 TeePubliccodingjohnson.com He got 1%, we can't hire him 3 1,172
1765 Key Discussionskeydiscussions.com It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage 3 1,171
1766 Emily Sneddonemilysneddon.com Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays 1 1,170
1767 fhurfhur.me That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection 4 1,169
1768 Brandon Skerrittskerritt.blog Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm 5 1,169
1769 Patrick Dubroydubroy.com Cold-blooded software 5 1,168
1770 Matthew Brunelleblog.matthewbrunelle.com Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish 5 1,168
1771 Lawrence Kestelootteamten.com Java for Everything 5 1,168
1772 tantetante.cc Google Declaring War on the Web 4 1,167
1773 DKBdkb.show Life is not short 2 1,167
1774 Senko Rašićblog.senko.net “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers 3 1,166
1775 0x7D0blog.0x7d0.dev Bypassing YouTube video download throttling 3 1,165
1776 Sacha Chuasachachua.com EmacsConf 2024 Notes 6 1,165
1777 Shamus Youngshamusyoung.com Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry 7 1,164
1778 Brian Andersonbrson.github.io Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust 3 1,164
1779 Dougall Johnsondougallj.wordpress.com Why is Rosetta 2 fast? 3 1,163
1780 Core Dumpedcoredumped.dev Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes 7 1,161
1781 Heather Meekerheathermeeker.com French court issues damages award for violation of GPL 2 1,161
1782 George Mandisgeorge.mand.is OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio 4 1,161
1783 Ken Shirriffarcfn.com Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package 7 1,160
1784 not not Talmudnotnottalmud.substack.com I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea 1 1,160
1785 djnn@localhostdjnn.sh Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit 1 1,160
1786 Jonathan Turleyjonathanturley.org Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance 4 1,159
1787 Bill Meibillmei.net Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities 3 1,159
1788 Adrian Kennard (RevK)revk.uk Unicode Dicks 4 1,158
1789 Peter Seibelgigamonkeys.com Code is not Literature 9 1,157
1790 Jonathan Zdziarskizdziarski.com Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity 6 1,156
1791 Tim Daubenschütztimdaub.github.io Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore 6 1,156
1792 Tracy Youngtracy.posthaven.com Reflections on Being a Female Founder 3 1,156
1793 ptrchmptrchm.com If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? 2 1,156
1794 Ellie Huxtableellie.wtf I quit my job to work full time on my open source project 2 1,155
1795 Beth Mathewsbethmathews.substack.com Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025) 2 1,155
1796 Michał Kosmulskiorigami.kosmulski.org Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain 2 1,154
1797 Basta’s Notesbasta.substack.com I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it 2 1,154
1798 David Heinemeier Hanssondavid.heinemeierhansson.com TDD is dead. Long live testing. 5 1,153
1799 Frank Chimerofrankchimero.com In web design, everything easy is hard again 4 1,152
1800 Expressionexpression.fire.org The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy 1 1,152