The Most Popular Blogs on HN in 2025

refactoringenglish.com

10 pointsmtlynch3 comments

This CSV file looks potentially useful for other projects - maps domain names to author name, bio and tags and since it's in a GitHub repo you can JS fetch() it from any page via CORS https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...

Oh cool... the main CSV data (~3MB) is available via CORS too!

I had Claude write me a SQL query for showing the relative rankings of different domains over time, here's that query running in Datasette Lite directly against the CORS CSV file:

https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://hn-popularity.cdn.ref...

... and then I saw you have that feature already! https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...

Wrote up my explorations here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/most-popular-blogs-of-h...

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