Hah. Your post made me curious which xkcds are the most popular on HN. This is the top10 (caveat below): 48 http://xkcd.com/927/ 48 http://xkcd.com/3

Hah. Your post made me curious which xkcds are the most popular on HN. This is the top10 (caveat below): 48 http://xkcd.com/927/ 48 http://xkcd.com/386/ 33 http://xkcd.com/538/ 28 http://xkcd.com/378/ 24 http://xkcd.com/810/ 23 http://xkcd.com/327/ 22 http://xkcd.com/323/ 21 http://xkcd.com/605/ 19 http://xkcd.com/936/ 17 http://xkcd.com/552/ You can easily reproduce the results by using the hnsearch API via curl "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com&limit=100&start=<iterate> and grep -ohE "http://xkcd.com/[0-9]*/" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n Unfortunately, I could only process the first 1000 entire list of ~1500 results because the API refused queries with start > 900. I have sort of a bad conscience because I'm polluting future queries by posting the top 10 list above, but I think I can live with it.