Hacker News Reader

When is a good time to submit a story to Hacker News? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058492 (June 2012)

What I find somewhat funny about this is, I did a whole analysis to find the best time to post on HackerNews, and posted at the best possible time.

But this post, that was posted on what is supposed to be a worse time actually ended up doing better :)

Thanks a lot for checking it out in any case!

Tangentially related.. When I was at uni I got very bored one summer and started making a spreadsheet of when certain people posted to a message board I frequented. This started with 3 people then became 15. It was very interesting to then plot that because I could make educated guesses about their sleeping habits, when they were at work etc. especially given what they wrote.

I could then make inferences as to their geographical location and other identifying attributes just based on when they were active on this message board. Regrettably I am a data nerd and would love to see such an analysis done on Hckrnews, etc. but I doubt it would be of interest to most others.

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