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The blogs Hacker News readers most often recommend: comments that call a post a must-read, a favourite or the best explanation of something. Claude has judged up to 40 comments for each of 740 blogs so far.

The most reliably recommended blogs, and how often HN pushes back (ranked by a 95% lower bound, so small samples cannot top the list)
How this is judged

criticalrecommendssampled HN comments per blog (critical shown from 3); the rest only cite it

  1. BBetterExplained28 of 40
  2. AAmit Patel27 of 40
  3. JJohn Allspaw26 of 39
  4. PPeter Seibel25 of 40
  5. NNeural networks and deep learning25 of 40
  6. JJulian.com25 of 40
  7. DDaniel Higginbotham25 of 40
  8. RRobert Nystrom24 of 40
  9. CCharity Majors24 of 40
  10. Wwizard zines24 of 40
  11. JJordan Mechner24 of 40
  12. TTim Urban23 of 40
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  1. B
    BetterExplained betterexplained.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 51 in 2016 · 8 this year330 people28 recommendlast post 2022-08-03inactivemathscience
  2. A
    Amit Patel redblobgames.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 43 in 2025 · 32 this year203 people27 recommendlast post 2026-09-16gamesprogrammingmath
  3. J
    John Allspaw kitchensoap.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 17 in 2012 · 1 this year92 people26 recommendlast post 2017-11-13inactivesystemscareer
  4. P
    Peter Seibel gigamonkeys.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 36 in 2017 · 7 this year310 people25 recommendno feedprogrammingwriting
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  5. N
    Neural networks and deep learning neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 46 in 2016 · 1 this year137 people25 recommendno feedaimath
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  6. J
    Julian.com julian.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 25 in 2017 · 2 this year105 people25 recommendlast post 2026-11-02startupswriting
  7. D
    Daniel Higginbotham braveclojure.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 19 in 2017 · 2 this year96 people25 recommendno feedprogramminggames
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  8. R
    Robert Nystrom craftinginterpreters.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 57 in 2020 · 22 this year277 people24 recommendno feedprogrammingwriting
    No feed
  9. C
    Charity Majors charity.wtf
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 42 in 2020 · 23 this year152 people24 recommendlast post 2026-10-08careerprogrammingwriting
  10. W
    wizard zines wizardzines.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 20 in 2023 · 14 this year88 people24 recommendno feedprogramming
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  11. J
    Jordan Mechner jordanmechner.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 22 in 2012 · 4 this year84 people24 recommendlast post 2026-10-14gameswriting
  12. T
    Tim Urban waitbutwhy.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 154 in 2015 · 24 this year802 people23 recommendlast post 2025-11-25productivityphilosophywriting
  13. D
    Dan Carlin dancarlin.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 29 in 2015 · 4 this year178 people23 recommendlast post 2014-11-06inactivehistoryculture
  14. R
    Robert Nystrom gameprogrammingpatterns.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 28 in 2014 · 3 this year168 people23 recommendno feedgamesprogrammingwriting
    No feed
  15. B
    Ben Eater eater.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 28 in 2020 · 4 this year126 people23 recommendno feedhardwareprogrammingscience
    No feed
  16. G
    Green Tea Press greenteapress.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 34 in 2017 · 2 this year239 people22 recommendno feedprogrammingsciencemath
    No feed
  17. M
    Marijn Haverbeke eloquentjavascript.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 35 in 2011 · 2 this year226 people22 recommendno feedprogrammingwriting
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  18. F
    Fred Hébert ferd.ca
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 32 in 2024 · 13 this year169 people22 recommendlast post 2026-08-10systemsprogrammingwriting
  19. A
    Al Sweigart inventwithpython.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 22 in 2010 · 2 this year100 people22 recommendno feedprogramminggameswriting
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  20. S
    Steve Pavlina stevepavlina.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 39 in 2011 · 3 this year186 people21 recommendlast post 2026-06-02careerphilosophyproductivity
  21. J
    Jay Alammar jalammar.github.io
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 39 in 2023 · 2 this year108 people21 recommendlast post 2025-03-26aidata
  22. M
    Miguel Grinberg blog.miguelgrinberg.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 24 in 2025 · 19 this year96 people21 recommendlast post 2026-10-27programmingweb
  23. B
    Bartosz Ciechanowski ciechanow.ski
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 84 in 2022 · 73 this year363 people20 recommendlast post 2024-12-17sciencedesign
  24. S
    Sean Carroll preposterousuniverse.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 43 in 2021 · 14 this year248 people20 recommendlast post 2026-10-26sciencephilosophy
  25. M
    Markus Winand use-the-index-luke.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 33 in 2011 · 9 this year171 people20 recommendlast post 2024-12-10programmingdata
  26. C
    colah's blog colah.github.io
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 27 in 2015 · 5 this year146 people20 recommendlast post 2019-05-30inactiveaimathprogramming
  27. P
    Paul Stamatiou paulstamatiou.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 57 in 2008 · 4 this year143 people20 recommendlast post 2026-01-12designhardwarestartups
  28. A
    absorptions windytan.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 22 in 2014 · 2 this year115 people20 recommendlast post 2025-04-16scienceprogramming
  29. R
    Rob Walling startupsfortherestofus.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 33 in 2015 · 2 this year102 people20 recommendlast post 2026-10-27startupsbusiness
  30. J
    Josh Worth joshworth.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 16 in 2015 · 3 this year83 people20 recommendno feedsciencedesign
    No feed