mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data
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Metadata for https://popularity.refactoringenglish.com/
22 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 22 comments · first 2025-03-25 · latest 2026-01-14
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…News in 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377 He has kindly CC0-licensed his data: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data ... Perhaps you can use it to seed your site.
comment by adityaathalye · 2026-01-14 · in Ask HN: Share your personal website -
Thanks, Phil! Updated! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/9...
comment by mtlynch · 2026-01-04 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
…positions 101-5000 you'll find lots of domains that don't match my official criteria for a blog. https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
comment by mtlynch · 2026-01-03 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
…anywhere in the top 100. [0] https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/methodolo... [1] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/8...
comment by mtlynch · 2026-01-03 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
…instantly, but the dataset needs a few minutes for my pipeline to re-run and push to the CDN. [0] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/8...
comment by mtlynch · 2026-01-03 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
…You won't show up unless your site is listed in this manually curated CSV file: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
comment by simonw · 2026-01-03 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
You can submit a PR to update your bio here: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m... - there are 77 closed PRs for that repo already so it looks like it's a well managed path for updating that.
comment by simonw · 2026-01-03 · in The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 -
…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...
comment by simonw · 2026-01-02 · in The Most Popular Blogs on HN in 2025 -
Okay, updated! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/4... But privately, I think of you as a security researcher, and there's nothing you can do about it. : ) Thanks for your writing and your security findings!
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Ah, you're right. Thanks! Fixed: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/3...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Author here. Thanks for letting me know. Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/3...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…and I'll answer in the morning. If you'd like to improve the metadata, I welcome PRs here: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Fixed now! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2... Sincerely, your biographer. : )
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…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…
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…it makes sense to identify him by his pseudonym rather than just "Anonymous" so I've updated it: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…If you'd like to add your metadata, I'll happily accept a PR here: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
D'oh! Fixed now. https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2... Sorry again!
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…LLM and then spot-checked. I just updated yours, but let me know if you'd like something different. https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Ah, fixed now. Thanks! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Sorry about that. Fixed now! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
Sorry about that! Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
comment by mtlynch · 2025-03-26 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News -
…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...
comment by omoikane · 2025-03-25 · in The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News