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I just can't help myself - I always search for my own blog in lists like this. As expected, I am nowhere in the top 5000.

soupfordummies 2y ago
Well I clicked through and bookmarked it :)
kstrauser 2y ago
Tap of the beer glass to my similarly low-ranking compatriots.
jll29 2y ago
It may console you: in some sense, the top 4900 are more valuable than the top-100. Why? Everybody here knows Paul Graham. I know Krebs and Schneier, most of you will, too. In a long tail distribution like this, the top entries (left) are the obvious ones, the lowest frequented ones (right) might be noise (artifact of the methods e.g. bugs in the data cleaning), but the middle part is really where the value is: blogs we don't know but would like to know. In search engine ranking, people needed a lot of time until the late Karen Spärck Jones finally discovered IDF (inverse document [collection] frequency) in 1972, the "Yang" to raw term frequency (TF), which had been the "Yin" that was missing a counterforce to retrieve truly relevant documents when balanced in the TFIDF formula. So, plea to the OP: please release the rest of your list (101-100000).
- lisper 2y ago
  At the bottom of the screen you will find a pulldown that lets you show up to 5000 entries.
- infecto 2y ago
  +1 to this. I'd also argue that some on the list are unapologetic self-promoters like Simon Willison. Nothing wrong with it but it shows and I think it's much more impressive to be below that cohort but still only a reasonable distance away.
dredmorbius 2y ago
FYI, in my May 2023 survey of HN's archived front pages (under the "past" link in the HN titlebar) ... horse.sheep doesn't appear at all. That's looking at just the top <=30 stories per day. Your high-water mark seems to have been 2022-12-19, with 88 points / 32 comments, appearing on the 3rd page of the daily archive, ranked #73: <https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-12-19&p=3 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-12-19&p=3>

soupfordummies 2y ago

Well I clicked through and bookmarked it :)

kstrauser 2y ago

Tap of the beer glass to my similarly low-ranking compatriots.

jll29 2y ago

It may console you: in some sense, the top 4900 are more valuable than the top-100. Why? Everybody here knows Paul Graham. I know Krebs and Schneier, most of you will, too. In a long tail distribution like this, the top entries (left) are the obvious ones, the lowest frequented ones (right) might be noise (artifact of the methods e.g. bugs in the data cleaning), but the middle part is really where the value is: blogs we don't know but would like to know. In search engine ranking, people needed a lot of time until the late Karen Spärck Jones finally discovered IDF (inverse document [collection] frequency) in 1972, the "Yang" to raw term frequency (TF), which had been the "Yin" that was missing a counterforce to retrieve truly relevant documents when balanced in the TFIDF formula. So, plea to the OP: please release the rest of your list (101-100000).

lisper 2y ago
At the bottom of the screen you will find a pulldown that lets you show up to 5000 entries.
infecto 2y ago
+1 to this. I'd also argue that some on the list are unapologetic self-promoters like Simon Willison. Nothing wrong with it but it shows and I think it's much more impressive to be below that cohort but still only a reasonable distance away.

dredmorbius 2y ago

FYI, in my May 2023 survey of HN's archived front pages (under the "past" link in the HN titlebar) ... horse.sheep doesn't appear at all. That's looking at just the top <=30 stories per day. Your high-water mark seems to have been 2022-12-19, with 88 points / 32 comments, appearing on the 3rd page of the daily archive, ranked #73: <https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-12-19&p=3 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-12-19&p=3>