Which Sites Reach the Hacker News Front Page
We track 252,219 stories from Hacker News, averaging 205 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 16,321 stories. Together they drew 28,283,534 comments, 112 per story on average.
github.com is submitted more than any other site (16,321 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 | 16,321 | 173 | 4,240 | 1M | |
| nytimes.com | 3,939 | 202 | 3,384 | 599.5k | |
| twitter.com | 3,242 | 257 | 3,592 | 506.3k | |
| youtube.com | 2,807 | 122 | 2,164 | 145k | |
| techcrunch.com | 2,553 | 228 | 2,968 | 370.3k | |
| bloomberg.com | 2,369 | 218 | 2,873 | 447.2k | |
| arstechnica.com | 2,362 | 201 | 2,532 | 287.6k | |
| theguardian.com | 2,250 | 186 | 1,952 | 283.1k | |
| medium.com | 2,239 | 201 | 2,444 | 220k | |
| bbc.com | 1,879 | 214 | 6,015 | 303.4k | |
| reuters.com | 1,828 | 219 | 2,498 | 343.1k | |
| arxiv.org | 1,643 | 132 | 2,408 | 97.6k | |
| en.wikipedia.org | 1,641 | 130 | 1,667 | 91.1k | |
| wsj.com | 1,398 | 184 | 2,330 | 244.1k | |
| wired.com | 1,181 | 188 | 1,683 | 139.3k | |
| washingtonpost.com | 1,157 | 219 | 1,817 | 191.7k | |
| theverge.com | 1,153 | 238 | 2,090 | 217.9k | |
| nature.com | 1,046 | 171 | 2,256 | 109.2k | |
| bbc.co.uk | 986 | 214 | 3,125 | 148.4k | |
| economist.com | 945 | 175 | 928 | 172.7k | |
| npr.org | 909 | 228 | 1,986 | 151.9k | |
| theatlantic.com | 899 | 185 | 2,283 | 132.9k | |
| theregister.com | 727 | 161 | 1,697 | 79.7k | |
| spectrum.ieee.org | 713 | 180 | 1,670 | 80.8k | |
| newyorker.com | 707 | 185 | 2,202 | 96.3k | |
| cnbc.com | 691 | 217 | 2,901 | 144.9k | |
| eff.org | 662 | 271 | 2,260 | 66.8k | |
| reddit.com | 652 | 203 | 1,793 | 63.1k | |
| quantamagazine.org | 628 | 189 | 1,304 | 52.3k | |
| lwn.net | 595 | 211 | 1,378 | 67.9k | |
| phys.org | 488 | 154 | 851 | 38.8k | |
| ft.com | 456 | 126 | 1,065 | 52.9k | |
| businessinsider.com | 430 | 218 | 1,988 | 83k | |
| forbes.com | 419 | 212 | 1,336 | 59.1k | |
| apple.com | 412 | 388 | 5,771 | 161.5k | |
| gist.github.com | 410 | 233 | 1,637 | 44.6k | |
| cnn.com | 405 | 175 | 1,495 | 65.4k | |
| latimes.com | 387 | 212 | 1,302 | 74.4k | |
| nautil.us | 383 | 164 | 910 | 36.2k | |
| tomshardware.com | 375 | 161 | 1,725 | 40.8k | |
| blog.cloudflare.com | 372 | 250 | 1,895 | 39.2k | |
| science.org | 372 | 194 | 1,528 | 50.7k | |
| phoronix.com | 365 | 145 | 1,045 | 28.9k | |
| scientificamerican.com | 358 | 188 | 892 | 44.6k | |
| cbc.ca | 356 | 196 | 1,177 | 50.7k | |
| old.reddit.com | 342 | 332 | 4,489 | 67.5k | |
| aws.amazon.com | 338 | 230 | 1,314 | 33.1k | |
| torrentfreak.com | 336 | 229 | 1,129 | 41k | |
| axios.com | 327 | 222 | 2,003 | 71.1k | |
| apnews.com | 321 | 204 | 3,089 | 63.6k | |
| vice.com | 320 | 260 | 1,623 | 57.4k | |
| blog.mozilla.org | 318 | 331 | 2,031 | 52.8k | |
| zdnet.com | 316 | 226 | 1,630 | 42.9k | |
| openai.com | 315 | 429 | 5,710 | 91.3k | |
| smithsonianmag.com | 314 | 199 | 1,115 | 34.1k | |
| blog.google | 307 | 329 | 1,735 | 67.3k | |
| technologyreview.com | 303 | 123 | 1,167 | 23.8k | |
| techdirt.com | 301 | 214 | 1,606 | 29.6k | |
| qz.com | 292 | 223 | 1,841 | 43.6k | |
| gizmodo.com | 290 | 196 | 1,359 | 34.8k |