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What Hacker News links to now: blogs ranked by how many different people linked them in the last two years, whatever their history.

Every blog: people who linked it ever (across) and in the last two years (up). Higher and further left means newer and rising.
101001,0001101001,000people who linked it, all-timelast 2 yearsall recent1 in 10 recentRandall MunroeSimon WillisonPaul GrahamGwern BranwenScott AlexanderCory Doctorow

432 blogs with no links in the last two years are left out.

Biggest risers: more HN links in 2025–2026 than in 2023–2024
  1. SSimon Willison · simonwillison.net903 more links
  2. SSean Goedecke483 more links
  3. JJohn D. Cook383 more links
  4. IIbrahim Diallo Blog247 more links
  5. SScott Alexander243 more links
  6. EEntropic Thoughts232 more links
  7. EEd Zitron219 more links
  8. PPaul Krugman203 more links
  9. SSimon Willison · tools.simonwillison.net192 more links
  10. ZZvi Mowshowitz172 more links
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  1. R
    Randall Munroe xkcd.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 1,638 in 2023 · 1,536 this year9,868 people1 recommendlast post 2026-10-30scienceculturemath
  2. S
    Simon Willison simonwillison.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 1,012 in 2025 · 738 this year986 people6 recommendlast post 2026-11-01aiprogramming
  3. P
    Paul Graham paulgraham.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 715 in 2013 · 289 this year5,106 people4 recommendstartupsbusiness
  4. G
    Gwern Branwen gwern.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 342 in 2020 · 232 this year1,549 people6 recommendlast post 2021-06-11inactivescienceprogrammingphilosophy
  5. S
    Scott Alexander astralcodexten.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 373 in 2025 · 292 this year463 people9 recommendlast post 2026-10-30philosophyeconomicspolitics
  6. J
    John Gruber daringfireball.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 385 in 2011 · 241 this year1,834 people4 recommendlast post 2026-11-01designhardware
  7. E
    Ed Zitron wheresyoured.at
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 210 in 2026 · 210 this year377 people5 recommendlast post 2026-10-28businesswritingeconomics
  8. J
    Joel Spolsky joelonsoftware.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 317 in 2022 · 159 this year2,845 people3 recommendlast post 2022-12-19inactiveprogrammingbusinesswriting
  9. W
    world.hey.com world.hey.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 338 in 2023 · 169 this year848 people3 recommendno feedprogrammingwritingculture
    No feed
  10. C
    Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 284 in 2026 · 284 this year619 people1 recommendlast post 2026-10-31politicsculturewriting
  11. S
    Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 264 in 2026 · 264 this year230 people7 recommendlast post 2026-11-01programmingaicareer
  12. D
    Dan Luu danluu.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 228 in 2022 · 147 this year1,199 people5 recommendlast post 2026-10-24programmingsystemscareer
  13. B
    Bruce Schneier schneier.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 477 in 2013 · 134 this year2,224 people2 recommendlast post 2026-10-30securitypoliticswriting
  14. D
    Daniel Stenberg daniel.haxx.se
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 136 in 2025 · 133 this year654 people3 recommendlast post 2026-10-22programmingsecurity
  15. S
    Scott Alexander slatestarcodex.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 598 in 2019 · 98 this year1,861 people11 recommendlast post 2021-01-21inactivephilosophyscienceculture
  16. B
    Brian Krebs krebsonsecurity.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 306 in 2020 · 132 this year1,439 people3 recommendlast post 2026-10-21securitydata
  17. G
    Gergely Orosz newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 127 in 2025 · 97 this year304 people8 recommendlast post 2026-10-30programmingcareerbusiness
  18. B
    Bret Devereaux acoup.blog
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 217 in 2022 · 124 this year510 people4 recommendlast post 2026-10-30historywriting
  19. N
    Noah Smith noahpinion.blog
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 259 in 2024 · 136 this year246 people8 recommendlast post 2026-10-31economicspolitics
  20. J
    Jeff Geerling jeffgeerling.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 158 in 2025 · 108 this year346 people2 recommendlast post 2026-10-30hardwareprogramming
  21. E
    Eric S. Raymond catb.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 172 in 2022 · 81 this year1,570 people1 recommendno feedprogrammingwritingculture
    No feed
  22. J
    Jeff Atwood blog.codinghorror.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 216 in 2015 · 74 this year1,270 people5 recommendlast post 2026-10-28programmingculture
  23. T
    Things Of Interest qntm.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 117 in 2023 · 78 this year719 people11 recommendlast post 2026-06-29writingculture
  24. T
    Terence Tao terrytao.wordpress.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 181 in 2026 · 181 this year517 people7 recommendlast post 2026-11-01mathscience
  25. G
    Gary Marcus garymarcus.substack.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 119 in 2025 · 96 this year214 people8 recommendlast post 2026-10-31aisciencephilosophy
  26. Z
    Zach Weinersmith smbc-comics.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 121 in 2024 · 76 this year855 people10 recommendlast post 2026-11-01culturescience
  27. A
    Armin Ronacher lucumr.pocoo.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 123 in 2026 · 123 this year428 people6 recommendlast post 2026-10-29programmingsystemswriting
  28. F
    Fabrice Bellard bellard.org
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 115 in 2023 · 53 this year793 people3 recommendno feedprogrammingsystems
    No feed
  29. S
    Scott Aaronson scottaaronson.blog
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 136 in 2022 · 73 this year298 peoplelast post 2026-10-31sciencemathphilosophy
  30. D
    Drew DeVault drewdevault.com
    Links per year since 2007 · peak 258 in 2021 · 72 this year646 people5 recommendlast post 2026-09-23programmingsystemswriting