The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

kept by eddie jan 05

Simon Willison ranked as the most popular blogger on Hacker News for the third consecutive year in 2025, based on analysis of domain score data.

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
Markdown, created by John Gruber in 2004 as a simple plain-text formatting tool for blogging, has become the ubiquitous standard for annotating everything from AI prompts to code repositories.
also on Daring Fireball, #developer-tools
plok.sh - GitHub to Blog
plok.sh turns any GitHub repository containing markdown files in a /blog directory into a fast, beautiful blog with zero configuration and multiple themes.
also on #blogging, #developer-tools
Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
Paperboat.website is a minimal, ad-free blogging platform offering subdomain sites, webrings, data ownership, and export, founded by Marv from Leipzig.
also on #blogging
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 is a large, slow, expensive frontier model that demonstrates deep knowledge and strong coding ability across complex multi-step tasks.
also on Datasette, #developer-tools
Introducing gcombinator. change 'y' to 'g' to get full context of the article + comments! Working on something epic pic.twitter.com/wWHLnMn3
Gcombinator replaces 'news.ycombinator.com' with 'news.gcombinator.com' in URLs to load HN with full article context and comments.
also on #social-news, Hacker News, #developer-tools