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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].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com

[2] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/d...

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That's weird that I'm excluded. Thanks for watching out for me :-)

Hypotheses: 1. it's an error. 2. I have powerful enemies. 3. Someone from the future is trying to stop me. 4. My blog triggered the FDIV bug and needed to be excluded.

There are a lot of odd exclusions on that list. Just spot-checking, I see blog.plover.com, the blog of Mark Jason Dominus, who by the way is looking for a job[1].

Also, dtrace.org is excluded, which hosts four individual blogs that surely should qualify.

[1]: https://mastodon.online/@mjd@mathstodon.xyz/1142231895042721...

>I see blog.plover.com, the blog of Mark Jason Dominus, who by the way is looking for a job

Whoops, that was a mistake. Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...

>Also, dtrace.org is excluded, which hosts four individual blogs that surely should qualify.

I didn't realize the authors were on distinguishable URLs, so I've now added them back and canonicalized them to their new subdomain URLs.

It would have been funnier if you had claimed to have excluded me because of some shadowy conspiracy, or because of the rumors that I am a cannibal.

But thanks for fixing.

Thanks so much for this! I checked last night, was stunned that my blog wasn't there, and went to bed sad and puzzled.

This morning I am jolly and cheerful. Thanks again!

3a. Twist - given what you analyze, this time it's a time traveller from the past that needs to stop you :)

3b. it's SERN that has a beef with them.

5. steganographic subliminal messaging :P

Author here.

That was an error.

I think what happened was that I was going through the list of domains and assumed that "righto.com" would be too valuable a domain name for a personal blog and excluded it without checking. Sorry about that!

Ken is #8 of all-time now.

Thanks! Not to complain, but you spelled my name wrong :-)

D'oh! Fixed now.

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...

Sorry again!

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