HN Domain Leaderboard
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HN Domain Leaderboard
I think that's pretty much it, though my domain regex is much uglier!
hnleaderboard.comHow HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, clear and useful way to find good blogs
From 3 comments
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I did a somewhat similar analysis a while back [1], and I found that many of the top domains either had a YC affiliation or corresponded to…
foob on HNLove the site. It's clear and to the point. One thing, if I may add, is that you need a link from the "about" page back to the main page. Thanks again for sharing!
et-al on HNNot going to lie. The first thing I checked in this site was for yours. You made the cut for the 1 year timespan. Congrats!
dkroy on HN
Objections
Mean score is a questionable statistic for skewed data
From 1 comment
Is mean a valid statistic for this dataset? I suspect that the score a link gets is highly variable and doesn't follow a known distribution, therefore, taking a straight mean may…
alexchamberlain on HN
Site served over an insecure connection and blocked by Cisco Umbrella
From 2 comments
hnleaderboard insecure connection rip
skullum on HNAlso blocked by Cisco Umbrella. "This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."
billysielu on HN
Requests
Filter by category
From 2 comments
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I did a somewhat similar analysis a while back [1], and I found that many of the top domains either had a YC affiliation or corresponded to…
foob on HNThanks! Really interesting blog post and cool idea for surfacing small high-quality blogs. I'd been planning to add filtering on categories from the start, but it was meant to be…
refrigerator on HN
Show top posts per domain
From 2 comments
It would be great if you could add top posts from each of these domains. I am really interested to see the top content I may have missed from a few of these domains.
ghayes on HNThanks for the suggestion, this is something I was planning to do too! Soon...
refrigerator on HN
Finer date filters
From 1 comment
Ah! was searching around for exactly this just a week ago and gave up. Could you add more granular date filters? (past month past week etc?) thanks for doing it!
glaberficken on HN
Questions
How were domain categories determined?
From 2 comments
How did you determine the domain categories?
raymondgh on HNI actually hand-labeled the categories, but only for roughly the top 100 domains in each time period. The categories are a little bit arbitrary (where is the line between…
refrigerator on HN
Alternatives named
Hacker News Algolia search
From 1 comment
Until he adds that, we could rely on the official HN search https://hn.algolia.com
O_H_E on HN
Sizzle Analytics top posts visualization
From 1 comment
This is a little out of date but may be of interest here. This is a visualization of the top 10,000 HN posts…
aaronhoffman on HN