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
201 Andrew Nesbittnesbitt.io How uv got so fast 12 5,209
202 David Crawshawcrawshaw.io I am building a cloud 12 5,205
203 Candy Japancandyjapan.com Japanese writing system basics 19 5,196
204 Ribbonfarmribbonfarm.com The Daredevil Camera 22 5,191
205 Graydon Hoaregraydon2.dreamwidth.org The Rust I wanted had no future 16 5,184
206 Malte Skarupkeprobablydance.com Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot 21 5,173
207 Richard Stallmanstallman.org Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook 21 5,168
208 Eugene Yaneugeneyan.com Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead 18 5,161
209 Phil Eatonnotes.eatonphil.com Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go 27 5,147
210 Rubenerdrubenerd.com Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore 19 5,146
211 Neal Krawetzhackerfactor.com One Bad Apple 18 5,124
212 Austin Henleyaustinhenley.com I canceled my book deal 19 5,115
213 Rodrigo Copetticopetti.org Playstation 3 Architecture 18 5,088
214 Taylor Troeshtaylor.town How to be a -10x Engineer 21 5,071
215 Erik Bernhardssonerikbern.com Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model 18 5,070
216 Nibble Stewnibblestew.blogspot.com Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 21 5,034
217 Susan Fowlersusanjfowler.com Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber 5 5,025
218 Dave Winerscripting.com Facebook is scaring me 32 5,016
219 Lars Wikmanunderjord.io The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary 23 5,015
220 Robert Elderblog.robertelder.org How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation 24 4,947
221 John Baezjohncarlosbaez.wordpress.com 42 24 4,931
222 Moxie Marlinspikemoxie.org My First Impressions of Web3 8 4,925
223 Christian Haschekblog.haschek.at The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019) 12 4,917
224 Fatih Arslanarslan.io I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock 11 4,917
225 Vitalik Buterinvitalik.ca Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later 24 4,906
226 John Goerzenchangelog.complete.org Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon 21 4,897
227 Justin O'Beirnejustinobeirne.com Google Maps' Moat 9 4,889
228 Zed Shawsheddingbikes.com Common Programmer Health Problems 29 4,887
229 Herman Martinusherman.bearblog.dev My product is my garden 17 4,886
230 David Schützbugs.xdavidhu.me Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass 6 4,861
231 Joseph Gentlejosephg.com Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) 7 4,857
232 Patrick McKenzietraining.kalzumeus.com How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting 14 4,839
233 Joan Westenbergjoanwestenberg.com Thin desires are eating life 15 4,833
234 Will Larsonlethain.com Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020) 25 4,823
235 Tiny Projectstinyprojects.dev I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service 7 4,822
236 Glenn Greenwaldgreenwald.substack.com My Resignation from the Intercept 12 4,814
237 Andrew Kelleyandrewkelley.me Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang 14 4,805
238 Laurence Tratttratt.net Using a "proper" camera as a webcam 26 4,804
239 Paul Stamatioupaulstamatiou.com Crash Course: Design for Startups 28 4,801
240 Tristan Humethume.ca Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml 14 4,789
241 Anton Zhiyanovantonz.org SQLite is not a toy database 19 4,784
242 Alex Payneal3x.net Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup 22 4,732
243 Joe Nelsonbegriffs.com History and Effective Use of Vim 21 4,728
244 Abort Retry Failabortretry.fail 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous 24 4,711
245 Steve Yeggesteve-yegge.blogspot.com Kotlin Is Better 27 4,707
246 Scott Adamsdilbert.com The Pivot 32 4,698
247 Martin Tournoijarp242.net YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) 15 4,697
248 Chris Kiehlchriskiehl.com Software engineering topics I changed my mind on 8 4,692
249 Sam Rosesamwho.dev Memory Allocation 8 4,682
250 Sam Currysamcurry.net We Hacked Apple for 3 Months 7 4,681