Which Sites Reach the Hacker News Front Page
We track 206,063 stories from Hacker News, averaging 247 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 11,661 stories. Together they drew 27,824,100 comments.
github.com is submitted more than any other site (11,661 stories over the threshold), but volume and reception are different questions — sort by average points and the order changes completely.
Most submitted, and how they score
| Site | Stories | Avg points | Best | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| github.com | 11,661 | 238 | 4,240 | 987.6k | |
| nytimes.com | 3,392 | 233 | 3,384 | 595.1k | |
| techcrunch.com | 2,368 | 244 | 2,968 | 366.8k | |
| twitter.com | 2,355 | 348 | 3,592 | 497.8k | |
| bloomberg.com | 2,160 | 237 | 2,873 | 444.7k | |
| arstechnica.com | 2,093 | 224 | 2,532 | 284.2k | |
| medium.com | 1,815 | 247 | 2,444 | 219.2k | |
| theguardian.com | 1,798 | 229 | 1,952 | 278.7k | |
| bbc.com | 1,641 | 240 | 6,015 | 295.2k | |
| youtube.com | 1,465 | 226 | 2,164 | 140.6k | |
| reuters.com | 1,451 | 272 | 2,498 | 339.5k | |
| arxiv.org | 1,097 | 193 | 2,408 | 95.5k | |
| en.wikipedia.org | 1,094 | 191 | 1,667 | 89.8k | |
| wsj.com | 1,092 | 233 | 2,330 | 241.8k | |
| washingtonpost.com | 1,076 | 235 | 1,817 | 191.2k | |
| wired.com | 1,034 | 213 | 1,683 | 138.4k | |
| theverge.com | 1,009 | 269 | 2,090 | 216.2k | |
| bbc.co.uk | 907 | 232 | 3,125 | 148k | |
| nature.com | 846 | 209 | 2,256 | 108.4k | |
| npr.org | 842 | 245 | 1,986 | 151.5k | |
| economist.com | 807 | 202 | 928 | 169.7k | |
| theatlantic.com | 787 | 209 | 2,283 | 131.6k | |
| newyorker.com | 642 | 201 | 2,202 | 94.7k | |
| spectrum.ieee.org | 624 | 201 | 1,670 | 78.3k | |
| eff.org | 613 | 289 | 2,260 | 65.5k | |
| quantamagazine.org | 564 | 209 | 1,304 | 51.7k | |
| cnbc.com | 557 | 264 | 2,901 | 142.3k | |
| lwn.net | 533 | 229 | 1,378 | 65.8k | |
| theregister.com | 500 | 228 | 1,697 | 78.3k | |
| reddit.com | 437 | 293 | 1,793 | 61.2k | |
| phys.org | 433 | 171 | 851 | 38k | |
| forbes.com | 400 | 222 | 1,336 | 59k | |
| apple.com | 376 | 414 | 5,771 | 156.6k | |
| businessinsider.com | 376 | 246 | 1,704 | 82.1k | |
| gist.github.com | 369 | 257 | 1,637 | 44.2k | |
| latimes.com | 360 | 226 | 1,302 | 73.8k | |
| nautil.us | 343 | 183 | 910 | 36.2k | |
| old.reddit.com | 329 | 345 | 4,489 | 67.5k | |
| scientificamerican.com | 319 | 209 | 892 | 44.5k | |
| vice.com | 316 | 263 | 1,623 | 57.4k | |
| aws.amazon.com | 315 | 247 | 1,314 | 33.1k | |
| torrentfreak.com | 313 | 244 | 1,129 | 40.7k | |
| blog.mozilla.org | 312 | 335 | 2,031 | 52.4k | |
| zdnet.com | 307 | 233 | 1,630 | 42.9k | |
| cnn.com | 299 | 234 | 1,495 | 64.7k | |
| blog.cloudflare.com | 297 | 300 | 1,895 | 37.8k | |
| science.org | 296 | 235 | 1,528 | 48.8k | |
| smithsonianmag.com | 294 | 211 | 1,115 | 33.8k | |
| qz.com | 279 | 232 | 1,841 | 43.5k | |
| cbc.ca | 277 | 246 | 1,177 | 49.8k | |
| atlasobscura.com | 276 | 173 | 959 | 23k | |
| slate.com | 272 | 209 | 1,322 | 38.7k | |
| krebsonsecurity.com | 268 | 299 | 1,944 | 44.7k | |
| anandtech.com | 264 | 215 | 3,025 | 36.8k | |
| paulgraham.com | 263 | 351 | 1,992 | 61.7k | |
| google.com | 262 | 272 | 2,244 | 34.9k | |
| techdirt.com | 260 | 240 | 1,606 | 28.8k | |
| axios.com | 258 | 280 | 2,003 | 71k | |
| phoronix.com | 255 | 204 | 1,045 | 28.7k | |
| blog.google | 253 | 375 | 1,735 | 63.3k |