One user, inigyou, out-commented all of Hacker News in August 2026 — 3,344 comments, 4.4× the runner-up

Asked:“What user on Hacker News made most comments in August, 2026?”

Counts of indexed comments from the Algolia HN Search API, UTC, 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026. The API reported 306,294 comments in the period; the 20 most active authors below wrote 12,030 of them.

inigyou’s 3,344 comments average about 108 per day for the whole month — hn.algolia.com

The gap from first to second place, 2,582 comments, is bigger than the runner-up’s entire total of 762 — hn.algolia.com

Ranks 2 through 20 are tightly packed, from 762 down to 331 — a spread of just 431 comments — hn.algolia.com

The top 20 together account for about 3.9% of the 306,294 comments indexed for the month — hn.algolia.com

Rank	Username	Comments	Lead over next	Source
1	inigyou	3,344	2,582	hn.algolia.com
2	dgellow	762	95	hn.algolia.com
3	pjmlp	667	80	hn.algolia.com
4	toomuchtodo	587	60	hn.algolia.com
5	embedding-shape	527	0	hn.algolia.com
6	andai	527	40	hn.algolia.com
7	ChrisArchitect	487	18	hn.algolia.com
8	frollogaston	469	3	hn.algolia.com
9	fragmede	466	1	hn.algolia.com
10	account42	465	29	hn.algolia.com
11	andsoitis	436	20	hn.algolia.com
12	tptacek	416	17	hn.algolia.com
13	matheusmoreira	399	8	hn.algolia.com
14	ben_w	391	20	hn.algolia.com
15	Aurornis	371	2	hn.algolia.com
16	ButlerianJihad	369	24	hn.algolia.com
17	cyanydeez	345	8	hn.algolia.com
18	estearum	337	3	hn.algolia.com
19	walrus01	334	3	hn.algolia.com
20	SoftTalker	331	—	hn.algolia.com

Data: Algolia Hacker News Search API facet counts of indexed comments, tags=comment, UTC window 2026-08-01 00:00:00 inclusive to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 exclusive. 20 rows, one per author; ranks below 20 cut for space. This is a count of API-indexed comments, not an official Hacker News leaderboard.

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