HN front-page domains (daily)
Daily aggregation of the Hacker News front-page snapshot by linked domain: for each domain appearing among the day's top 120 stories — story count, total score, total comments, mean engagement velocity (points per hour), best front-page rank, share of the front page, and the domain's top story. Same official keyless source as hn-frontpage-momentum-daily. Primary key: (date, domain). Cadence: daily. Sample use: order by total_score desc to see which publishers dominate HN today.
- Rows
- 104
- Columns
- 11
- Source cadence
- Daily
- Last refreshed
- Sep 25, 2026
- Theme
- technology
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | — |
| fetched_at | string | — |
| domain | string | Normalized link domain (lowercased, www. stripped); text self-posts map to news.ycombinator.com. |
| stories | integer | — |
| total_score | integer | — |
| total_comments | integer | — |
| avg_points_per_hour | float | Mean engagement velocity across the domain's stories that day. (unit: points/hour) |
| best_rank | integer | — |
| frontpage_share | float | Share of the day's top-120 front-page stories linking this domain. (unit: share) |
| top_story_title | string | — |
| top_story_hn_url | string | — |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | fetched_at | domain | stories | total_score | total_comments | avg_points_per_hour | best_rank | frontpage_share | top_story_title | top_story_hn_url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | anthropic.com | 2 | 2,548 | 1,896 | 28.681 | 58 | 0.017 | Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | openai.com | 1 | 1,762 | 841 | 32.538 | 85 | 0.008 | GPT-6 Sol and Luna | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | bloomberg.com | 2 | 1,078 | 661 | 14.86 | 65 | 0.017 | Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830037 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | f-droid.org | 1 | 883 | 249 | 101.209 | 1 | 0.008 | F-Droid 2.0 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | apnews.com | 1 | 872 | 757 | 28.078 | 101 | 0.008 | Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | github.com | 7 | 687 | 208 | 5.283 | 3 | 0.059 | Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | nobodywho.ai | 1 | 672 | 209 | 16.502 | 118 | 0.008 | Jev in 25 Lines of Python | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812769 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | qualcomm.com | 1 | 589 | 248 | 23.077 | 55 | 0.008 | Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | pointinthecloud.com | 1 | 521 | 113 | 15.862 | 48 | 0.008 | Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469 |
| 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-25T00:09:40.236556+00:00 | meta.com | 1 | 478 | 456 | 19.62 | 71 | 0.008 | Meta VR Glasses | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268 |
Profiled Sep 25, 2026 from snapshot 20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 104
- Columns
- 11
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datevarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| fetched_atvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| domainvarchar | 0% | 98 | — |
|
| storiesbigint | 0% | 4 | 1 → 7median 1 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| total_scorebigint | 0% | 81 | 3 → 2,548median 99.5 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| total_commentsbigint | 0% | 79 | 0 → 1,896median 42 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| avg_points_per_hourdouble | 0% | 113 | 0.258 → 101.21median 5.55 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| best_rankbigint | 0% | 96 | 1 → 120median 59.5 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| frontpage_sharedouble | 0% | 4 | 0.0084 → 0.0588median 0.0084 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| top_story_titlevarchar | 0% | 103 | — |
|
| top_story_hn_urlvarchar | 0% | 115 | — |
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- Current
20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658 · sha256 d96bbee1c658…
104 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/hn_signals/hn_frontpage_domains_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/hn_signals/hn_frontpage_domains_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/hn_signals/hn_frontpage_domains_daily
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
Where this data comes from and what was made from it. Other people's work shows as counts; only shared projects are named.
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Hacker News (agent-curated signals). (2026). HN front-page domains (daily) [Data set, snapshot 20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658, sha256 d96bbee1c658]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-25, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/hn_signals/hn_frontpage_domains_daily?snapshot=20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658
@misc{dz_hn_signals_hn_frontpage_domains_daily_d96bbee1,
title = {{HN front-page domains (daily)}},
author = {{Hacker News (agent-curated signals)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/hn_signals/hn_frontpage_domains_daily?snapshot=20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658}},
note = {Snapshot 20260925T001122Z-d96bbee1c658, sha256 d96bbee1c65899176e53568f73fb142315aea5aeeff2e6842fd8ccd52e608ae3; accessed 2026-09-25}
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