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Reddit Inc Blog Homepage is the company blog at redditblog.com, writing about programming and culture. Since 2014, 163 different Hacker News readers have linked it 194 times, most often “Reddit’s new comment sorting system (2009)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Reddit's official blog as the primary source for company announcements, staff changes and product history, and for posts on comment sorting, r/Place and the 2005 Lisp rewrite.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
Most-linked posts?
- /2005/12/05/on-lisp/9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-04-19
- Reddit’s new comment sorting system (2009)9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-03-27
- Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-09-07
- /2005/12/on-lisp.html5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-10-27
- Randall's (xkcd) Reddit's comment sorting system (2009)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-04-17
- Happy 10th birthday to us4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-23
- View Counting at Reddit4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-25
- How We Built r/Place4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-13
- /2019/12/04/reddits-2019-year-in-review/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
- Caching at Reddit4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Here are some recent ones that have been popular: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/4/20/how-twitter-handle... https://redditblog.com/2017/1/17/caching-at-reddit/ https://blog.twitter.com/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twit... https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/16/smashing-magazine-ju... https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech... https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/instant-messag.…
Comment linking /2017/1/17/caching-at-reddit/
on “How We Built r/Place”Submitted How We Built r/Place as a story · 1152 points
HN discussionThis is way less of a problem than you'd think, as long as the default "best" sort is used. Also, I don't think age is taken in to account on reddit, are you thinking of this site instead? https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin... As someone who browses both reddit and hacker news (obviously), I'm regularly frustrated by the way this site hijacks your attention to ask you to judge some recent c…
Comment linking /2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system/
on “92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people”Submitted View Counting at Reddit as a story · 489 points
HN discussionYishan Wong has a big vision for what reddit can be. I’m excited to watch it play out. Wow, seriously? He's talking about the guy who spewed this nonsense[0]: We understand the harm that misusing our site does to the victims of this theft, and we deeply sympathize. Having said that, we are unlikely to make changes to our existing site content policies in response to this specific event. The reason is because we cons…
Comment linking /2014/09/every-man-is-responsible-for-his-own.html
on “Reddit”Submitted Why We Chose Typescript as a story · 385 points
HN discussionThe same goes for Yishan Wong, who personally hired Ellen Pao, supports the recent moderation actions[1], thought he wasn't qualified for the job[2], and censored creepshots, right? The whole thing's been going downhill since 2012, I guess? [1] http://www.quora.com/Reddit-Strengthens-Moderation-Spring-an... [2] http://www.redditblog.com/2012/03/new-reddit-ceo-reporting-f...
Comment linking /2012/03/new-reddit-ceo-reporting-for-duty.html
on “Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin”Submitted Caching at Reddit as a story · 350 points
HN discussion> More than 200k signed, so you're off by a factor of 10. So half a percent of the userbase or so? I'd call that a vocal minority. http://www.redditblog.com/2015/06/happy-10th-birthday-to-us-... > I don't think she was ever going to get back the community's confidence. Likely true. Backing down here likely means zero chance of addressing toxic communities in the site for the foreseeable future.
Comment linking /2015/06/happy-10th-birthday-to-us-celebrating.html
on “Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief”Submitted Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors as a story · 326 points
HN discussionIt could be anything in the top 20, really [0]. The problem is that devs have an impulse to do something experimental and cool, since they have to work with workhorse languages all day at their day jobs. The myth that they tell themselves is that $REVOLUTIONARY_FEATURE_Y will greatly improve their productivity, but the fact of the matter is usually that no matter how revolutionary the features, it's hard to overcome…
Comment linking /2005/12/05/on-lisp/
on “Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers”Submitted The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know as a story · 315 points
HN discussionIt's also interesting that the "over 330M active monthly users" number somehow hasn't changed in over a year now. Their site has it here, as "Last updated Nov. 12, 2017": https://www.redditinc.com/#section-3 Their official blog posts continue using that same 330M number: https://redditblog.com/2019/01/23/health-fitness-on-reddit/ The TechCrunch article does as well. Either their number of active users hasn't changed…
Comment linking /2019/01/23/health-fitness-on-reddit/
on “Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation”Submitted Happy 10th birthday to us as a story · 279 points
HN discussionAn important part of the question here is are the subquestions of what should be regarded as a "common carrier"-like thing (a category which probably includes email traffic and public Internet traffic at the TCP/UDP level), and what should be tolerated on those services, and what should be regarded as not similar to a "common carrier" (which clearly includes, say, the official Wikipedia version of a Wikipedia page o…
Comment linking /2014/05/global-reddit-meetup-day-is-coming-up.html
on “Trouble at the Koolaid Point”Submitted Evolving Reddit’s Workforce as a story · 248 points
HN discussionI feel like your argument is making the case for "Nothing has to be monetized", rather than "Not everything has to be monetized". Not everyone is going to share this altruistic approach to running a business. The majority of monetization probably does, plain and simply, come down to greed. But outside of that, you have ambitious people who envision so much more than what they currently offer—which may require large…
Comment linking /2019/12/04/reddits-2019-year-in-review/
on “Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable”Submitted The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit as a story · 234 points
HN discussionand yet. pg has been cheerleading for lisp since 2002 or so, and almost nobody has followed in his footsteps. the reddit guys believed him, tried it, and wound up doing a complete rewrite in python. https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ so i'd have to say that the prevailing evidence says, to me, that pg's advice pretty much doesn't work, in the average case.
Comment linking /2005/12/05/on-lisp/
on “How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language”Submitted Robin as a story · 150 points
HN discussionAny idea why they rewrote it? edit: https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/
Comment linking /2005/12/05/on-lisp/
on “How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language”Submitted Envoy Proxy at Reddit as a story · 136 points
HN discussionReddit releasing a crowd game at /r/thebutton http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html
Comment linking /2015/04/the-button.html
on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted Video is Coming to Reddit as a story · 96 points
HN discussionIronically, considering the amount of sentiment being displayed here, Ken M is quoted as saying "I was appalled by the Yahoo comment section. It was such a toxic, shitty space." in this interview: https://redditblog.com/2015/10/03/ken-m-interview-internet-t...
Comment linking /2015/10/03/ken-m-interview-internet-troll/
on “Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021”Submitted The Evolution of Data at Reddit as a story · 60 points
HN discussionrelated question: probability that the sun will rise again tomorrow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_problem A practical use of a Stilton to this is included in reddits "best" sorting of comments, leaving from room for doubt with low sample sizes of votes. https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin...
Comment linking /2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system/
on “Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet”Submitted Evolving Reddit’s Workforce as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSo... after reading your post, I went over to reddit to try to figure out how to embed comment threads for use as a discussion section on a site. You know what? I can't find anything helpful on Reddit about how to do it. I found how to embed reddit buttons easily enough (from the link on the bottom[1]). Checking the FAQ eventually led me to a page that says: "We’re working to support comment embeds shortly. We will…
Comment linking /2015/03/23/announcing-embeddable-comment-threads/
on “Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform”Submitted Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015) as a story · 43 points
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