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Gah! You're right. I should have caught that as the largest category ovrall (all years) is general news sites at about 8.5% of all FP stories. So no single s
by dredmorbius 3y ago
Gah! You're right.
I should have caught that as the largest category ovrall (all years) is general news sites at about 8.5% of all FP stories. So no single site should rank above that.[1]
YT is still the single top site for 2022 front page stories though. Top 10:
Site Stories Points ( mean ) Comments ( mean )
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n/a 432 167275 ( 386.32 ) 125304 ( 289.39 )
youtube.com 105 27243 ( 257.01 ) 12489 ( 117.82 )
nature.com 80 17694 ( 218.44 ) 11716 ( 144.64 )
wikipedia.org 68 12258 ( 177.65 ) 5855 ( 84.86 )
nytimes.com 67 21190 ( 311.62 ) 21765 ( 320.07 )
arstechnica.com 63 18319 ( 286.23 ) 12057 ( 188.39 )
ieee.org 53 9432 ( 174.67 ) 5933 ( 109.87 )
reuters.com 53 28360 ( 525.19 ) 29033 ( 537.65 )
theguardian.com 49 12228 ( 244.56 ) 8677 ( 173.54 )
quantamagazine.org 48 11293 ( 230.47 ) 5519 ( 112.63 )
science.org 47 12485 ( 260.10 ) 7655 ( 159.48 )
"n/a" are posts without links, typically Ask/Tell HN, Who's Hiring/Wants to be Hired threads, etc.
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Notes:
1. "General news" has actually fallen in recent years, with programming/code submissions (frequently Github/Gitlab repos, plus language-specific sites, etc.) at 10.5% of all front-page submissions in 2023, blogs at 10.25%, academic/science (5.2%), and general news (4%).