The Blogs Hacker News Keeps Coming Back To

I have an obsession with finding good long-form reads. Not the front page. The blog someone has kept going since 2009, where one post took them a whole weekend. Those blogs don’t trend. They just keep showing up, one link at a time, deep in Hacker News comment threads. When Karpathy built HackerTube last weekend, a YouTube made only of videos HN recommends, someone quickly followed with HackerBooks for books. I wanted the same thing for blogs. So I built Hacker Blogs. It lists the personal blogs, and the company blogs that write long form, that Hacker News keeps linking to. As of 2 November 2026, that’s 24,284 of them. Quiet consensus Most rankings count volume. Total links, total upvotes, total anything. One loud fan can drag a blog to the top. Hacker Blogs counts something else. Quiet consensus: the signal you get when many different people, who never coordinated, keep pointing at the same writer over the years. A blog moves up by the number of distinct people who linked it, in…

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