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Famous HNers and their sites
- langsoul-com 4y agoI reckon blogs with the most up votes makes more sense. Paul Graham posts are always on the front page, but isn't in that list.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- lettergram 4y agoLol guess I’m “famous”. I’m curious how many of these websites are active, any idea? I really only post on https://austingwalters.com https://austingwalters.com but have all my side projects listed
- macintux 4y agoNow I’m regretting not having my entirely inactive blog linked from my profile. Opportunities missed.
- azinman2 4y agoOr my homepage do I could get spammed by robots :)
- brightball 4y agoI guess that was my problem too. I’ve been writing a lot lately though. Added to the profile now. Maybe they get me next time.
- 3np 4y agoI hang out here way too much and still recognize <10% of profiles listed (:
- p4bl0 4y agoI hang out here a lot too but not in all the discussions. If someone participates only or mainly in stories about VC fundings and such I may never see his or her name, while I'll probably see the name of someone who participates less but does so in technical discussions more :).
- Macha 4y agoI'm on the list, I'd be surprised if anyone recognised my username who didn't know me from elsewhere. I do recognise a good chunk of the top 30 or so names though
- lemming 4y agoI was thinking it would be nice to see when the user last posted, along with their karma. I see a lot of names I recognise but haven’t seen around for a while.
- simonw 4y agoWould be interesting to run a crawler against them that looks for Atom/RSS feed links like these: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="/atom/everything/"> And then fetches the feed to see when the most recent post is.
- themodelplumber 4y agoSo like, http://Planet.Famous.News.Ycombinator.com http://Planet.Famous.News.Ycombinator.com, as this idea would have been known in 2007?
- LifeIsBio 4y agoIf at least one site was active, I included all the sites scraped from the bio.
- woodruffw 4y agoEducated guess: I think step 5 in the process didn't attempt to discover links that are missing http:// http:// or https:// https://.
- BbzzbB 4y agoThat'd explain some of the holes mentioned in these comments. I think you just want to match any "word" containing ".[valid TLD]" and then exclude invalid URLs ("@" in first part indicating email, etc). I've been using this[0] Python library which seemed good enough for my needs in some scraping project. 0: https://github.com/lipoja/URLExtract https://github.com/lipoja/URLExtract
- dudus 4y agoYou should go crazy and skip step 3. Just do for all of us.
- LifeIsBio 4y agoI actually tried to do that about two years ago, and ran out of steam about 20% of the way through. It was a lot. Even this shorten list took a surprising amount of time!
- graderjs 4y ago:'( I am absent
- LifeIsBio 4y agoIn [1]: html.unescape(users_table.find_one(name="graderjs")["about"]) Out [2]: 'https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com' It looks like your about changed more recently than my BQ data pull?
- graderjs 4y agoYes! I only added my company link when I saw your post, and that you stripped githubs etc.
- mmaunder 4y ago:-) You want to be rich or you want to be famous. Never both.
- smitty1e 4y agoMaterialism is a bore. Focus on spiritual richness #FTW.
- biggerChris 4y agoAlan watts would respond “ who are you kidding, yourself? You the ego, the one driving your needs?, why can’t yourself have both. Don’t kid yourself man”.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIt's not that you can't have both. It's that as you gain more of one, the other starts to lose some of its appeal. Wash/Rinse/Repeat.
- baby 4y agoWeird, I’m not in there :D but have enough karma to qualify
- LifeIsBio 4y agoAh, I didn't search for .net I'll do that and update!
- brightball 4y agoMe too :)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- labrador 4y agoI checked your submissions and you have three from twitter. They said they filtered out users with too many Twitter submissions. I really don't see the problem with Twitter submissions. Sometimes people Tweet interesting things with links in the Tweet.
- gonehome 4y agoI think they mean they filtered out users that only had links to their Twitter account in their bio (as opposed to a personal site or something) - not that they filtered them because they submit Twitter threads. As others said it’s probably because the link in his bio is missing http:// http:// or something like that.
- labrador 4y agoOh I see, it's in the bio. I thought they were looking at submission history. I don't understand why having Twitter in your bio makes you uninteresting
- gonehome 4y agoIt’s if it was the only link you have in your bio. I have Twitter in my bio, but also my personal site. If your bio only had Twitter/gmail and no other sites they didn’t include it.
- emptyparadise 4y agoDoes HN allow you to go negative? I'd love to see a list of infamous HNers.
- saagarjha 4y agoYes, it does, although karma on any individual comment is capped at -4 and if you keep posting them you may have moderation action taken against you.
- pvg 4y agoYour comments go auto-dead at a relatively small cumulative negative score so it's more of a robot moderator action.
- blululu 4y agoThis prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative. I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
- prawn 4y agoThe TempleOS guy was probably one of the more memorable ones though you'd need showdead on to see a lot of the comments from his accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos Posted a lot but had fairly meagre karma. Some background about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
- mkl 4y agoIt's case sensitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
- JestUM 4y agoThanks for compiling and sharing these :)
- elcritch 4y agoYes! Looks like I'll only need to be on HN for another 21 years to become HN famous! ;) Purusing these personel pages are fun. I also have an idle curiosity if these top accounts get karma mainly from comments or submits? As in are comments or stories are the driving portion of the HN karma system?
- saagarjha 4y agoMost, but not all, people on the leaderboard are prolific commenters. I have heard (but cannot confirm personally :P) that posting a lot of interesting content can get you karma pretty quickly, but most of the people who do that seem to churn off the site eventually? I can only think of a handful of people who still do this regularly and don't comment.
- gonehome 4y agoI’m on there - at least for me the vast majority is from comments. The one time my blog hit #1 it was ironically submitted by somebody else.
- marttt 4y agoIt would also be interesting to read the all time most upvoted comments on HN -- without seeing the actual count of upvotes.
- schoen 4y agoYou probably know that you can get the first half of that at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (that is, you can see the most-upvoted comments, but you do see the count of upvotes)
- oefrha 4y agoThose are most upvoted comments before comment votes went hidden, not all time most upvoted comments.
- chubot 4y agoIdle curiosity: which users have the most karma per comment? And most karma per comment if you filter out "politics" (although that is hard and vague) ? How many high karma users are inactive? pg (creator of the site) seems to be one: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg FWIW here is the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ---- Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
- ekianjo 4y ago> Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech-related places even more so.
- sarchertech 4y agoI think this means I spend too much time on HN.
- raphlinus 4y agoI just broke 10k a few weeks ago, so I guess I'm famous now. AMA!
- googlryas 4y agoDid you enjoy your dinner tonight?
- raphlinus 4y agoIt was pretty good, my son and I ordered Bangkok Thai on University here in Berkeley. The satay and tom kha gai were excellent, but the chu-chee salmon wasn't as good as the last time we had it. (we got delivery rather than dine-in because of Covid caution)
- biggerChris 4y ago[flagged]
- Tempest1981 4y agoWhat's your favorite programming font?
- themodelplumber 4y agoHow did you cut your profile down to just a few lines like that?
- AccountAccount1 4y agoCan someone explain to me how they got a list of all the users? > Downloaded all HN users from BigQuery ??
- password4321 4y agoIt has never been clear to me whether or not this is truly all users or just those that have commented at least once.
- dilyevsky 4y agoSee https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...
- thrdbndndn 4y agoFrom this? https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...
- nighthawk454 4y agoawesome! I've been interested in something similar, after coming across 'famous' accounts in the HN comments often enough
- LifeIsBio 4y agoI've got all the data pulled down now, so if you have any specific ideas for additional questions, feel free to share!
- nighthawk454 4y agoWould be awesome to link in the famous person's real name and/or achievements when available. Even just putting HN bio text might be enough. Sadly, I don't recognize them all by HN username yet :P
- exolymph 4y agoI'm flattered to be on this list :) Thanks for upvoting me lol. I tend to be a bit of a cantankerous bitch in the comments here but I deeply enjoy this community and learn so much from you all. Here are the posts from my own site that HN liked the most: 1) Brutality of Life Reading List, 93 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458522 2) Thriverism, 21 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330086
- closedloop129 4y agoA feature that I miss about HN is the ability to subscribe to old posts. It would be nice to be informed when those debates continue, e.g. from references like these.
- jader201 4y agoI think I read somewhere (possibly from dang) that this was intentional, as subscribing tends to lead to more arguing. Edit: didn’t like dropping this without a reference, so dug one up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937472 Turns out it’s both to prevent flamewars and also foster curiosity more.
- closedloop129 4y agoOP's comment is: >Which is a good reason to add a reply-notification system I share the view that omitting reply notifications is a good tool to prevent flamewars. What I would like to have are notifications for entire debates. Right now it is useless to add comments to old submissions because nobody is going to read them. If there were subscribers to debates, the audience could return. To prevent flamewars, subscribers should only be notified when e.g. 20 comments are added to a debate. That leaves time for everybody to cool off and hopefully creates enough substance that it's worth returning to a debate.
- sbf501 4y agoSurprised that about 15% of the sites don't/didn't work.
- LifeIsBio 4y agoSome of the links are definitely down. If one link in a profile was active and "interesting", I just included all their links.
- teleforce 4y agoIt seems that the list is not comprehensive since Walter's website is not included [1]. Fun fact, the most famous Jacques once posted Walter website on HN [1]: [1]https://walterbright.com/ https://walterbright.com/ [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825763
- onion2k 4y agoEvery time someone mentions my website I feel guilty that I haven't updated it for years.
- richardw 4y agoNot to take anything away from the page. It was nice to see some great names in there. And honestly the list is a testament to massive value given to the community. I’ve learned so much. However, I love seeing tech hard-hitters throw in a message or two and who I see have low karma. Or people who have been here for ages and just quietly do their thing. Karma probably helped move it forward (great guide of quality from a high level) but it’s come at a cost. When people start to compete for the karma and not to build the community, we lose something. PaulG, for one. I had this fantasy that there’s a YC-only version that rhymes with the public HN.
- stavros 4y agoDo you see people here competing for karma? The only case where I've seen anyone care about it is when someone posts these lists.
- richardw 4y agoI don’t pay a lot of attention but I do perceive some efforts to get karma. Eg lots of posting articles, more jostling in comments than is necessary. Wherever there is a measure, some people will optimise for it. We’re human.
- buildbot 4y agoIts actually a little surprising that so few people have 10k+ karma, that does not seem massive? Very interesting blogs though!
- wingerlang 4y agoI guess I don't pay that much attention to usernames. I've been browsing HN since 2011 and I recognized 5 usernames after scrolling (fairly fast) through the whole list.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoI’ve noticed that same thing. On other sites, I get into repeated and ongoing conversations. Maybe not like making friends exactly, but a welcome extra level of connection sometimes. Doesn’t feel like it happens here, at least not for me. I wonder if simply bolding the username, or having it on its own line, or some other subtle emphasis would be enough to lift usernames in our awareness.
- wingerlang 4y agoI only get this on Forums because it repeatedly bumps threads so the usernames repeats and conversations continue.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoSo, do you have a plan? I mean, mine is pretty random but has somewhat become routine. I come to Hackernews, browser, and read as part of my email reading routine. Then, before I retire for the day and sleep, I submit the articles I read during the day which I believe are interesting. The next morning, some of them usually sip through, and I see them on the front pages. The best cases I have seen so far are four stories amongst the top 30 at an instant. Hackernews is perhaps the last frontier of subtle tech fun these days, without the overcrowded cheesy slapstick jokes around the Internet.
- manigandham 4y agoNice, I made the list. Thanks for putting this together. Interesting backgrounds, and also the spread between those rankings. I guess this is also good motivation to finally finish my draft blog posts.
- nerdponx 4y agoI had never been so motivated to re-activate my website until I saw people with less karma than me making a list of 340 interesting HN users that I was excluded from!
- Kaibeezy 4y agoThat said, there was the well-upvoted post last week where the blogger posted an unfinished draft. Something about graphing? Lesson: Go ahead and just post your draft blog posts.
- nerdponx 4y agoWhat about your draft website layouts and your draft project to one day compare a few static site generators so you can actually write your blog and your draft web hosting setup and ...
- password4321 4y agoSomeone else scraped HN users in September 2020 to determine which posts were most favorited (by the top 10k users per most comments weighted by number of favorites, then dang shared most favorited globally): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073
- halotrope 4y agoWow, there is only about a hundred (scrollcounted on mobile) people with more than 10k karma? Talk about life goals. You can do that.
- stavros 4y agoYeah but why? Why does karma matter?
- robocat 4y agoThat also have a detected url in their about link. I’m guessing there are way more than 100 like that.
- olalonde 4y agoThere is more than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders This is is a filtered out list for users who have a personal/company website listed in their About section.
- politelemon 4y agoLooking at the comments here, am I alone in being completely unaware of famous users here? While browsing HN I pay zero attention to the users and simply look at the content or comments.
- mongol 4y agoI think I am like you. I recognize almost no one. It gives me this weird feeling that every comment comes from a unique person, and that the number of people commenting is approximately infinite. Which I understand rationally to be wrong, but still.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoConcur, it feels lonely out in space. Do you think that if the username were subtly emphasized (bold, or on its own line) we would notice it more?
- prox 4y agoThe value should be in the arguments and the merit of the comment itself, nothing should emphasize the user in my view. That said it’s sometimes nice to just click the name and see if there is a profile.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoOn that theory, maybe not show the username at all, just a link to the profile? I’d be curious whether people here would like more/less awareness of usernames. I suppose I’ll find out if my comments on it get any reactions.
- benj111 4y agoBut if youre having a conversation with someone who's raising points over multiple comments it would be nice to know those points so you can argue against them, else you risk strawmanning.
- bencollier49 4y agoSorry to be that person, but I think this is probably a good example of something which is covered by the GDPR. OP has built profiles and is storing information about people, which makes them a data controller under the GDPR, and subject to its extraterritoriality provisions, as some of these users will be EU/UK citizens. I don't believe the exemption for personal use applies, as the data is being published. If I remember correctly, they're now supposed to contact each person individually, explain why they're storing their data, and obtain their consent. In practice, the chances of someone making a complaint and the issue being enforced are extremely low.
- camdenlock 4y agoYou don’t seem all that sorry.
- bencollier49 4y agoWell my comment above is kind of pedantic and tangential, but I do think it's an interesting point.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoPersonal data manifestly made public by the data subject should be OK per GDPR Article 9, aye?
- bencollier49 4y agoI'd not seen that part of it before. I think the trick word here is "manifestly", and some sources seem to indicate that this means that the people would have to have expressly given consent for onward processing. For example: https://iapp.org/news/a/publicly-available-data-under-gdpr-main-considerations/ https://iapp.org/news/a/publicly-available-data-under-gdpr-m... Also Article 9 seems to be restricted to non-processable data about sensitive matters. Anyhow, it's definitely a good example of how convoluted the language around GDPR can get, and how much of a minefield it is to try to follow it. The usual caveat applies, I'm not a lawyer.
- playingalong 4y agoI wonder if there is a way to heuristically assign US or non-US flag.
- beardyw 4y agoMany people consider themselves to have a national identity beyond "non-US".
- stavros 4y agoSpeak for yourself, my passport says "Nationality: Non-US".
- InCityDreams 4y agoAs a fervent anti-nationalist, please no (even if there is a way).
- senorqa 4y agoRSS feeds for 5 out of the Top Hits list https://breckyunits.com/feed.xml https://breckyunits.com/feed.xml https://www.gwern.net/feed.rss https://www.gwern.net/feed.rss https://www.righto.com/rss.xml https://www.righto.com/rss.xml https://blog.jgc.org/rss.xml https://blog.jgc.org/rss.xml https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/rss/ https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/rss/
- sgt 4y agojacquesm is a machine. Is he multi-threaded, by any chance?
- jacquesm 4y agoAbsolutely, that's what my co-workers concluded long ago, a failed early AI experiment. And that's in between running a company, tons of hobbies, kids and so on... But to be fair, I sleep way too little.
- jgrahamc 4y agoI am honoured that my little website made the list.
- personjerry 4y agoMaybe some of them didn't want to be exposed like this?
- jakobdabo 4y agoThe information is sourced from the users' about page. People who don't want to be exposed tend to not put links to their websites in their public about page.
- implements 4y agoMissed out the sci-fi author Charles Stross: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross https://www.antipope.org/charlie/ https://www.antipope.org/charlie/ https://www.accelerando.org/ https://www.accelerando.org/ (Problem with certificate?) - He once moaned that I had described the Land Registry as a UK institution rather than an England and Wales one. That’s the last time I borrow one of your books from a public library, Charles! :)
- Kaibeezy 4y agoThe Land Register is a hot button issue with Scots, where the land ownership concentration is approximately the worst in the developed world. https://www.landcommission.gov.scot/our-work/ownership/scale-and-concentration-of-land-ownership https://www.landcommission.gov.scot/our-work/ownership/scale...
- INTPenis 4y agoHe's one of the first major authors to join the fediverse. He's major to a scifi nerd like me anyways.
- p4bl0 4y agoWell I really wouldn't say I'm anything close to a famous HN users but it's funny to be included in the list. What's sort of disappointing is that it seems I'm the only one there to have an .onion address!
- mensetmanusman 4y agoHopefully my gravestone will say “Famous HNer”
- egypturnash 4y ago“I wonder if I made this cut”, I asked myself. Karma > 10k, check. Then I scroll down and my sci-fi graphic novel (1) is #3 on the hand-curated list. Thanks! I just finished a short comic for a Webtoons contest; engagement is a significant part of how they’re gonna judge it, so if you like my stuff then check it out (2) and leave a nice comment to increase my chances of getting a $5-50k prize. I don’t make anything near FAANG money so even the low end would make a big difference in my finances. :) 1: http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ 2: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-sins-of-chloe-franklin/chloes-evening-out/viewer?title_no=789730&episode_no=1 https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-sins-of-chloe-fran...
- danpalmer 4y agoWell this was a good reminder to add my website to my HN bio! Just crossed the 10k boundary, but I wouldn't say I'm "famous" at all. There are only a few users who I recognise – jaquesm, pc, dang, patio11, dannybee, maybe a few others.