Famous HNers and Their Sites
Update: Here’s the link to the HN discussion about this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32291993
It’s been too long since I’ve had a little data exploration project. So I decided to track down the HN users with the most karma and explore their personal sites. More specifically, I:
- Downloaded all HN users from BigQuery
- Hit
"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/{username}.json?print=pretty"
to get everyone’sabout
andkarma
data - Filtered users for those with more than 10,000 karma
- Filtered out users with empty
about
sections - Filtered out users with no “interesting” links. Non-interesting links include things like “twitter”, “gmail”, “keybase”, etc.
Past that, it was a pretty manual process. I’ve attempted to review everything, make sure links weren’t stale, and verify that there was at least some small interesting thing on at one or more of the links. Some of these users have made it on the list from sites representing companies the user has founded. But, most of the sites are personal blogs of some sort.
This process took me from the 807370 who have ever commented/posted on HN, to a list of 340 unique and interesting corners of the internet! 🙂
Disclaimer: Despite manual spotchecking along the way, there’s a chance I didn’t include everyone or that some links I’ve included are dead. If that’s the case, feel free to reach out!
Top hits
First, here’s a bonus list of sites that struck my fancy for one reason or another. They’re in no particular order:
- https://breckyunits.com/
- https://corememorymusic.com/
- http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/
- https://www.gwern.net
- https://edweissman.com/index.html
- https://edent.tel/
- http://www.righto.com/
- https://jgc.org/
- https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/
- https://aegir.sexy/
Full list
jacquesm (karma=198342)
- https://pianojacq.com/
- https://jacquesmattheij.com/
- https://modularcompany.com
- https://camarades.com
danso (karma=153582)
rbanffy (karma=128093)
patio11 (karma=127036)
tosh (karma=117833)
- https://jamshelf.com
- https://magic.do
- https://lemmings.io
- https://applesilicongames.com
- https://devmonthly.com
- https://blossom.io
- https://angel.co/tosh
- https://lobste.rs/u/tosh
- https://dribbble.com/tosh
- https://instagram.com/thomas.schranz
- https://facebook.com/thomas.schranz
Animats (karma=112598)
TeMPOraL (karma=90749)
- http://jacek.zlydach.pl
- http://esejepg.pl/
- http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2018-01-06-going-far-going-small.html
- https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=TeMPOraL
luu (karma=88078)
steveklabnik (karma=84088)
jgrahamc (karma=82513)
uptown (karma=75433)
jerf (karma=75058)
edw519 (karma=73416)
jseliger (karma=69872)
jrockway (karma=65974)
tokenadult (karma=62345)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification
- http://learninfreedom.org/
aaronbrethorst (karma=60103)
jedberg (karma=59475)
davidw (karma=58723)
cperciva (karma=58083)
fogus (karma=57923)
adamnemecek (karma=56982)
- http://ngrid.io
- http://www.syntorial.com/#a_aid=AudioKit
- http://audiokit.io
- http://www.reproducibility.org/RSF/book/bei/conj/paper_html/index.html
stavros (karma=56475)
smacktoward (karma=54883)
minimaxir (karma=54543)
robin_reala (karma=54543)
wglb (karma=50944)
btilly (karma=48279)
lisper (karma=47267)
wpietri (karma=46883)
derefr (karma=46536)
DiabloD3 (karma=45213)
raganwald (karma=44995)
swombat (karma=44077)
- http://www.swombat.com
- http://danieltenner.com
- http://inter-sections.net
- http://www.granttree.co.uk
- http://blog.granttree.co.uk
mooreds (karma=43991)
- https://fusionauth.io/
- https://fusionauth.io/jobs/
- https://www.mooreds.com
- https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/
- https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=mooreds
DanielBMarkham (karma=43827)
bpierre (karma=43169)
Anon84 (karma=43072)
- https://graphs4sci.substack.com
- https://viz4sci.substack.com
- https://www.data4sci.com/newsletter
- https://www.bgoncalves.com/
doener (karma=42651)
mpweiher (karma=42626)
yummyfajitas (karma=41933)
bookofjoe (karma=41555)
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.bookofjoe.com/
- https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2017/07/interview-with-joe-from-the-bookofjoe-blog.html
- https://www.amazon.com/s?
JoshTriplett (karma=40029)
DoreenMichele (karma=39415)
onion2k (karma=39102)
sethbannon (karma=37954)
grellas (karma=37827)
feross (karma=36496)
brundolf (karma=35905)
munificent (karma=34358)
benbreen (karma=33963)
vidarh (karma=33832)
- https://accelerated.ventures/
- http://www.hokstad.com
- http://www.hokstad.com/blog
- https://galaxybound.com
- http://www.hokstad.com/compiler
scott_s (karma=33788)
lmm (karma=33496)
SwellJoe (karma=32707)
mindcrime (karma=32272)
barrkel (karma=31918)
mhb (karma=31666)
gwern (karma=30408)
- https://www.gwern.net
- https://www.gwern.net/Links
- https://www.gwern.net/Changelog
- https://www.gwern.net/Links#contact
tlrobinson (karma=30217)
- http://tlrobinson.net
- http://www.metabase.com/
- http://www.crunchbase.com/company/280-north
- http://www.cappuccino-project.org/
apsec112 (karma=30158)
pavlov (karma=29939)
craigkerstiens (karma=29560)
Alex3917 (karma=29455)
geofft (karma=29347)
giuliomagnifico (karma=29156)
fanf2 (karma=29087)
sinak (karma=28589)
gojomo (karma=28509)
PaulHoule (karma=27729)
denzil_correa (karma=27567)
skrebbel (karma=27432)
eli (karma=27248)
- https://industrydive.com
- https://www.utilitydive.com/
- https://www.biopharmadive.com/
- https://www.supplychaindive.com/
- https://www.industrydive.com/industries/
- https://eli.at.industrydive.com
- http://www.elidickinson.com/
adrianN (karma=27082)
scrollaway (karma=26799)
joeyespo (karma=26511)
_pius (karma=26408)
simonw (karma=26388)
api (karma=25877)
pcr910303 (karma=25610)
rwmj (karma=25505)
ddevault (karma=25484)
djsumdog (karma=25430)
ComputerGuru (karma=25219)
wslh (karma=24713)
- https://www.natural.do/
- https://www.coinfabrik.com
- https://www.nektra.com
- https://blog.coinfabrik.com
- https://blog.nektra.com
- https://blog.databigbang.com
manigandham (karma=24619)
dasil003 (karma=24556)
modeless (karma=24489)
acdha (karma=24467)
duck (karma=24171)
jsnell (karma=24167)
pabs3 (karma=24162)
- https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/
- https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/about/resume/
- https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/about/#other_pages
- https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/
- https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/about/#contact
idlewords (karma=23398)
ocdtrekkie (karma=23378)
antirez (karma=23093)
ph0rque (karma=23071)
kazinator (karma=23022)
simonebrunozzi (karma=22761)
kf (karma=22755)
rms (karma=22600)
dangrossman (karma=22331)
- http://www.hnreplies.com
- https://improvely.com
- https://w3counter.com
- https://ligninandlight.com
- https://glowforge.us/r/GMSCZQGJ
jasonkester (karma=22264)
- http://www.expatsoftware.com/
- http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles
- https://unwaffle.com/
- http://www.twiddla.com/
- https://www.s3stat.com/
austenallred (karma=22228)
jasonlbaptiste (karma=22126)
kragen (karma=22074)
gkoberger (karma=22069)
gk1 (karma=21774)
michaelt (karma=21520)
simonsarris (karma=21500)
mbrubeck (karma=21171)
Brajeshwar (karma=21128)
buro9 (karma=20660)
edent (karma=20504)
imartin2k (karma=20412)
pron (karma=20389)
CPLX (karma=20359)
dsr_ (karma=20267)
chmaynard (karma=20195)
iamelgringo (karma=20102)
ryanwaggoner (karma=20078)
acangiano (karma=19981)
grey-area (karma=19960)
revorad (karma=19938)
mrb (karma=19905)
Sir_Cmpwn (karma=19702)
nailer (karma=19702)
wlesieutre (karma=19699)
nine_k (karma=19681)
grecy (karma=19678)
sneak (karma=19582)
chimeracoder (karma=19349)
mortenjorck (karma=19283)
leephillips (karma=19229)
- https://lee-phillips.org
- https://CVservant.com
- https://picmunge.cvservant.com
- https://goo.gl/HrS8sV
- https://alogus.com/publishing/gnuplot5/
imgabe (karma=19094)
vinnyglennon (karma=19088)
- https://hnify.com
- https://WebSummit.com
- https://FanFootage.com
- https://SeenBefore.com
- https://FantasyTote.com
jessriedel (karma=18982)
paulgb (karma=18891)
danShumway (karma=18882)
prawn (karma=18690)
- http://isaacforman.com.au
- https://usepunch.com/
- https://serio.com.au/
- https://beamorders.com/
- http://hexiledgame.com/
- http://streaksapp.com/
- http://streaksworkout.com/
- https://vanspiration.com/
- http://www.313halifax.com.au/
- http://shubbo.com/
ISL (karma=18516)
- http://charliehagedorn.com
- http://nanoradian.com
- http://measuredmass.com
- https://www.instagram.com/charliehagedorn/
marcosdumay (karma=18448)
mixmax (karma=18148)
IgorPartola (karma=18012)
timf (karma=17985)
jamesjyu (karma=17933)
wheels (karma=17913)
dnautics (karma=17904)
kalleboo (karma=17903)
fossuser (karma=17619)
nikcub (karma=17566)
schoen (karma=17522)
- https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/letsencrypt-ccs19.pdf
- https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/coldboot-sec08.pdf
- https://sethschoen.com/
JonnieCache (karma=17245)
tysone (karma=17235)
londons_explore (karma=17184)
bensummers (karma=16964)
matthewmacleod (karma=16954)
woodruffw (karma=16897)
RyanMcGreal (karma=16891)
Symmetry (karma=16876)
mcguire (karma=16841)
kstenerud (karma=16833)
willvarfar (karma=16774)
abraham (karma=16713)
jstanley (karma=16694)
pc (karma=16676)
SilasX (karma=16646)
ca98am79 (karma=16622)
Vinnl (karma=16620)
stickfigure (karma=16610)
- https://www.orbitkit.com/
- http://www.motomapia.com/
- http://mav.sourceforge.net/
- https://www.gearlaunch.com/
- https://www.voo.st/
- http://www.similarity.com/
- http://www.mobca.st/
- http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=457038
- http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305107
Lazare (karma=16544)
ot (karma=16461)
daenz (karma=16426)
weinzierl (karma=16410)
mark_l_watson (karma=16352)
bambax (karma=16297)
danilocampos (karma=16274)
echelon (karma=16234)
umvi (karma=16136)
Karunamon (karma=16135)
sciurus (karma=16097)
chrismorgan (karma=16078)
atombender (karma=16005)
dwynings (karma=15986)
Pxtl (karma=15958)
geerlingguy (karma=15915)
sant0sk1 (karma=15877)
joshuacc (karma=15840)
- http://designpepper.com/a-drip-of-javascript
- http://joshuaclanton.dev
- http://myhnstory.com/joshuacc/
andybak (karma=15703)
ChrisMarshallNY (karma=15645)
rmc (karma=15638)
azhenley (karma=15557)
_0nac (karma=15551)
graeme (karma=15543)
jpatokal (karma=15525)
nullc (karma=15514)
paul (karma=15468)
jeffbarr (karma=15365)
jefftk (karma=15355)
awb (karma=15302)
ryan_j_naughton (karma=15269)
jwr (karma=15268)
throwanem (karma=15242)
cstross (karma=15125)
arkadiyt (karma=15100)
coffeemug (karma=15035)
mgkimsal (karma=15015)
pornel (karma=14938)
AndrewKemendo (karma=14893)
p4bl0 (karma=14862)
dvt (karma=14829)
Sami_Lehtinen (karma=14816)
ThomPete (karma=14807)
- https://www.firstprinciple.co
- https://www.hellogroup.com
- https://www.thenorthalliance.com/
- https://www.Ghostnoteapp.com
- http://www.000fff.org
- http://mashable.com/2012/04/19/pinview-facebook-pinterest-app/
lucb1e (karma=14763)
rossdavidh (karma=14751)
josteink (karma=14536)
driverdan (karma=14520)
ErrantX (karma=14474)
- http://www.errant.me.uk/
- http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2009/10/pro-tip-tell-us-exactly-what-your-offering/
dgellow (karma=14400)
majewsky (karma=14390)
sarchertech (karma=14379)
komali2 (karma=14351)
gscott (karma=14229)
rcarmo (karma=14224)
lkrubner (karma=14202)
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SFRNJKS/
- https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/0998997617/
- https://demodexio.substack.com
orf (karma=14194)
pilif (karma=14187)
georgemcbay (karma=14186)
kens (karma=14131)
riffraff (karma=14126)
mmaunder (karma=14109)
jbk (karma=13998)
erikpukinskis (karma=13930)
coldpie (karma=13916)
vorpalhex (karma=13877)
sillysaurusx (karma=13842)
breck (karma=13793)
- https://scroll.pub
- https://breckyunits.com/
- https://ourworldindata.org/
- https://www.uhcancercenter.org/
- http://microsoft.com/
- https://breckyunits.com/#nudgepad-an-ide-in-your-browser
- https://www.mozillalabs.com/webfwd/
- http://labzero.com/
- http://duke.edu/
hannob (karma=13775)
franze (karma=13671)
- http://f19n.com/
- http://www.viennajs.org/
- https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/f19n-obtrusive-live-test/jbnaibigcohjfefpfocphcjeliohhold
tikhonj (karma=13665)
andreyf (karma=13660)
janvdberg (karma=13547)
mikecane (karma=13512)
tonyedgecombe (karma=13503)
sebg (karma=13493)
dchest (karma=13394)
samatman (karma=13391)
dankohn1 (karma=13382)
latch (karma=13203)
jawns (karma=13099)
- http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com
- http://www.correlated.org
- https://newlywed.science
- http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com/kids
- https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com
ignoramous (karma=13070)
carbocation (karma=13035)
danieltillett (karma=13028)
ivankirigin (karma=12976)
mike-cardwell (karma=12969)
- https://www.hardenize.com/
- https://www.grepular.com/blog/
- https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell
- https://mike.cardwell([-at-])grepular.com
- https//www.grepular.com/1801A332.txt
- https://www.paypal.me/grepular
iamwil (karma=12939)
- https://pulley.com
- https://dirtprotocol.com
- https://helmspoint.com
- https://www.pebble.com
- https://cubehero.com
- http://noteleaf.com
- https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/23/frogmetrics-handheld-surveys-you-might-actually-want-to-fill-out/
- https://isitrecession.com
dctoedt (karma=12819)
- http://www.OnContracts.com/notebook
- http://www.OnContracts.com/startup-law
- http://www.QuestioningChristian.org
- http://www.OnContracts.com/About
JshWright (karma=12804)
kjhughes (karma=12726)
k__ (karma=12725)
- https://kay.is
- https://fllstck.dev
- https://www.newline.co/react-from-zero/
- https://blog.developerdao.com
Symbiote (karma=12687)
pchristensen (karma=12683)
kentonv (karma=12667)
- https://cloudflareworkers.com
- https://capnproto.org
- https://Sandstorm.io
- https://sandstorm.io
- https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
- http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-optimized-house.html
gjm11 (karma=12586)
chatmasta (karma=12574)
- https://www.splitgraph.com
- https://www.splitgraph.com/connect
- https://www.notion.so/Splitgraph-is-Hiring-25b42164f0f5469eb1278899b543eb93
csomar (karma=12560)
lettergram (karma=12427)
- https://insideropinion.com
- http://agw.io
- https://austingwalters.com
- https://agw.io
- https://insideropinion.com
- https://hnprofile.com
- https://redditprofile.com
- https://projectpiglet.com
- https://lettergram.net
- https://easy-a.net
Arathorn (karma=12422)
kirubakaran (karma=12173)
- https://histre.com/collections/o34gelgt/kirubakarans-hacker-news-upvotes/
- https://kirubakaran.com
- https://histre.com/
- https://kirubakaran.com/txt/pgp.txt
lacker (karma=12115)
chubot (karma=12105)
jkuria (karma=12084)
pmorici (karma=12062)
alexandros (karma=11979)
baby (karma=11962)
akkartik (karma=11954)
JacobAldridge (karma=11895)
egypturnash (karma=11881)
FabHK (karma=11834)
codegeek (karma=11825)
sahin (karma=11702)
bko (karma=11700)
neilk (karma=11667)
davidgerard (karma=11619)
exolymph (karma=11569)
brlewis (karma=11554)
sytse (karma=11453)
ChrisArchitect (karma=11444)
michaelbuckbee (karma=11423)
donatj (karma=11254)
amirmc (karma=11242)
- http://amirchaudhry.com
- https://https://docker.com
- http://unikernel.com
- https://http://nymote.org
- https://https://mirage.io
- https://http://www.springboard.com
- https://http://www.tidepowerd.com
Jaruzel (karma=11237)
ken (karma=11186)
Macha (karma=11142)
rustoo (karma=11059)
varjag (karma=11050)
pnathan (karma=11034)
shakna (karma=11026)
- https://shatterealm.netlify.app/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/thethirdcave/comments/k4ess9/rthethirdcave_lounge/
JohnTHaller (karma=11004)
marban (karma=10987)
dewey (karma=10976)
- https://getbirdfeeder.com
- https://editorialsync.com
- https://annoying.technology
- https://blog.notmyhostna.me
nickjj (karma=10955)
BinaryIdiot (karma=10954)
blowski (karma=10954)
Eliezer (karma=10921)
yardie (karma=10887)
abstractbill (karma=10853)
chrischen (karma=10738)
fcambus (karma=10724)
sbierwagen (karma=10713)
ThePhysicist (karma=10666)
rsynnott (karma=10654)
speeder (karma=10584)
- http://gitlab.com/u/speeder1
- http://coderofworlds.com
- http://www.abril.com.br/blog/campus-party/2011/01/19/fanatico-por-jogos-leva-seu-proprio-fliperama-para-a-arena/
- https://www.kidoteca.com
tempestn (karma=10555)
Vivtek (karma=10494)
geuis (karma=10465)
tel (karma=10446)
nkoren (karma=10419)
cjbprime (karma=10375)
moron4hire (karma=10351)
jackgavigan (karma=10337)
wmeredith (karma=10311)
hardwaresofton (karma=10270)
- https://vadosware.io
- https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io
- https://waaard.com
- https://loginwithhn.com
- https://nimbusws.com
- https://surplusci.com
zitterbewegung (karma=10261)
jakelazaroff (karma=10254)
joshfraser (karma=10248)
- http://www.originprotocol.com
- https://www.onlineaspect.com/about/
- https://www.onlineaspect.com/contact/