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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...




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