HackerBlogs
The 9,434 blogs HN people keep sharing
About
HackerBlogs curates the most shared blogs on Hacker News, drawing from over 10 million links. It filters blogs that appear in at least 15 different HN accounts’ posts, removes news and company sites, and presents each blog’s top posts, HN commentary, and related blogs. Users can follow blogs and export them as OPML for any RSS reader. The full dataset is publicly available for those who want to build their own version.
The case
Who it is for
Hacker News enthusiasts who want a curated list of blogs, or developers building tools that need a dataset of popular blogs.
What is broken today
Before HackerBlogs, HN users had to sift through countless links to find trustworthy blogs. There was no organized catalog showing which blogs were widely shared and discussed, making it hard to discover influential content or integrate it into RSS readers.
What it does about it
HackerBlogs scrapes all links from HN stories and comments, filters for blogs linked by at least 15 distinct accounts, removes news and company sites, and builds a catalog. Each blog page displays its most-shared posts, HN comments, and related blogs. Users can follow blogs and export their list as OPML.
Why not the obvious alternative
Unlike generic blog directories, HackerBlogs uses community‑driven data from Hacker News to surface only blogs with proven popularity. It provides HN commentary, related blogs, and a ready‑to‑use OPML export, features that typical blog aggregators do not offer.
Details
Questions
- How many blogs are included?
- The catalog contains 9,434 blogs that have been linked by at least 15 distinct Hacker News accounts.
- Can I export the list?
- Yes, you can export the blogs you follow as an OPML file for use with any RSS reader.
- Is there a cost?
- The service is free to use.
- Where can I find the dataset?
- The full dataset is available for download on the About page.
- How are blogs filtered?
- Blogs must have at least 15 different HN users linking to them, and news sites and company pages are excluded.
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