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by hnbear 162 days ago
I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot.

There are also a number of other blogs I read that are semi-regularly on HN and aren't on the list that I expected to be. Maybe just didn't quite make the top 100, and I'm over-indexing on my personal preferences. eg. Matt Levine's Money Stuff crops up semi-often, and Bret Devereaux of ACOUP gets most of his posts on HN.
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mtlynch 162 days ago
> I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot.

A lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti

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cinntaile 162 days ago
I think that account was compromised a while back, it looks fine now again. I don't get the point though, why even bother making a repost bot. It's not like they gain anything from it.

Not that I have anything against the top bloggers, but I do hope the 2026 list will differ from the 2025 list. I'm here to read about varied tech content!

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