4 points | by mtlynch 7 hours ago ago
3 comments
This CSV file looks potentially useful for other projects - maps domain names to author name, bio and tags and since it's in a GitHub repo you can JS fetch() it from any page via CORS https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
Oh cool... the main CSV data (~3MB) is available via CORS too!
https://hn-popularity.cdn.refactoringenglish.com/hn-data.csv
I had Claude write me a SQL query for showing the relative rankings of different domains over time, here's that query running in Datasette Lite directly against the CORS CSV file:
https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://hn-popularity.cdn.ref...
... and then I saw you have that feature already! https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...
Wrote up my explorations here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/most-popular-blogs-of-h...
This CSV file looks potentially useful for other projects - maps domain names to author name, bio and tags and since it's in a GitHub repo you can JS fetch() it from any page via CORS https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/m...
Oh cool... the main CSV data (~3MB) is available via CORS too!
https://hn-popularity.cdn.refactoringenglish.com/hn-data.csv
I had Claude write me a SQL query for showing the relative rankings of different domains over time, here's that query running in Datasette Lite directly against the CORS CSV file:
https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://hn-popularity.cdn.ref...
... and then I saw you have that feature already! https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...
Wrote up my explorations here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/most-popular-blogs-of-h...