On HN we try to go by article quality, not site quality. Sites that mostly produce bad and/or offtopic articles for HN sometimes still produce good and ontopic ones sometimes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

We do put a standard downweight on major media sites, though, especially ones focused on politics. politico.com has had that for years, but politico.eu didn't. I've done that now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... doesn't look so bad though!