💭 The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025

Waylon Walker Author

January 3, 2026 1 min read

Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform. The engine behind …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before.

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