I originally posted this list 3 months ago (July 2010). I've since improved upon it.<p>Now the list has been expanded to 200 people (previously 100).<p>Hacker News usernames are shown wherever possible.<p>I've also posted a link to a CSV file which contains the full list up to 1,000 people.<p>And a cron job will automatically regenerate the list once a week.
This would be more interesting if you added one more column, dividing the number of HN followers by the total number of followers. @Shitmydadsays has 1.8 million followers, but the people ahead and behind that account on this list each have <30K followers. Clearly, those accounts (@al3x and @dhh) are more Hacker Newsy.
I don't consider myself a hacker, so am not best placed to pass judgement, but... it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream, and yet here is pretty clear proof that hnews has formed its own stream. How many hackers here check the list and de-follow anything not in the long tail, fearing getting caught-up in groupthink?<p>I apologise in advance if this causes offence; stream or not, I still have tremendous respect for this very high calibre community.
Would LOVE to see this weighted by the each user's HN Karma score. For example, a user with 1000 Karma who follows Harj should be worth more than a user with 10 Karma who follows Lessig.
I remember when @PaulG joined Twitter he quickly gained several thousand followers in a few hours via a link from Hacker News. This data is based on only 400-500 users. I would say the majority of the Hacker News community is left out.
This reflects what the HN community represent, and we are certainly not all hackers. Entrepreneurs? Perhaps. Notice a lot of VCs got pretty high up on the list.