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Item 10^6
- sama 17y agosadly i did not have time to test my script and there was a bug or i would have for sure had it :(
- mixmax 17y agoYou can take solace in the fact that you just had your 1K karma day :-)
- steve___ 17y agoAt least the comment was original.
- kogir 17y agoI was secretly hoping pg would hack things so that 10^6 was just skipped ;)
- pg 17y agoI considered it, but item ids are so deep in the code that it would have been asking for trouble.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoNow we look to the 2^20 day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048576 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048576
- Xichekolas 17y agoStill a loooooong way to go... but the item IDs aren't limited to 32 bit ints are they? ;)
- krallja 17y agoAre you kidding? HN is written in Arc, not C++.
- BrentRitterbeck 17y agoOh no, we've brought religion into the mix!
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoOnce you start looking for "interesting" ids you can find all sorts of reasons to find them. 2^20, the next prime, Fibonacci numbers, etc. Perhaps for any given point in a increasing number series there is an infinite number of interesting numbers just around the corner. Sigh. It's the sieve of Giraffes
- ars 17y ago> It's the sieve of Giraffes Or the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox Every number is interesting somehow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number - and the quote: "Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood, upon hearing of the taxicab incident.
- gjm11 17y ago
- Raphael 17y ago1000000 GET
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- chaosmachine 17y agoCan you estimate how quickly 2e6 will occur at the current growth rate? I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in 2010.
- teuobk 17y agoBased on fitting a simple logarithmic curve, plus some fiddling, I'm thinking 2e6 will happen in late September, 2010.
- henning 17y agoThanks for building this site, Paul.
- davi 17y agoOK, while we're on the topic of useless numerology: How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post) me: 1000140 / 174632 = 5.7 HN years edw519 (current leader after pg): 999538 / 9357 = 107 HNyears RIP, nickb: 685017 / 2649 = 259 HNyears mechanical_fish: 999416 / 22714 = 44 HNyears
- endlessvoid94 17y ago997143 / 600 = 1 661.905
- kurtosis 17y agois there somewhere else where this convention is used? if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any two posts should be proportional to the log of the ratio of their IDs.. so shouldn't it be log(ID most recent / ID first post) ?
- davi 17y agoI made it up. But for exponentially growing ID, log(ID most recent / ID first post) is proportional to age of account & that's boring -- the nonlinearity is what makes the measure 'fun' (I use the term loosely). It agrees with some notion of the 'good old days' when Startup News was a fishbowl we could all look in on, and early HN participants were Founders not only of startups but also an online community. I agree though, there are probably more interesting measures one could come up with.
- nostrademons 17y agome: 998366 / 243 = 4108 HN years There may be earlier ones - I couldn't retrieve comments before about Jun 2007, so I went by my earliest submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243
- davi 17y agoI used searchyc to get earliest comment ids.
- vaksel 17y agowould have been nicer if the post was a little bit more programming related. Since it's somewhat an anniversary, can you tell us what kind of traffic HN is getting? users wise, pageviews wise. Or is that a trade secret?
- pg 17y agoWe now get around 40k unique ips and 500k pageviews on week days. Here's the traffic as of last night: http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-16dec09.png http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-16dec09.png The reason pageviews peaked in Aug is that we got better then at shutting down over-aggressive crawlers. The big spike in uniques was when the HN thread about _why became the de facto condolence page for the whole web.
- vaksel 17y agothose numbers are pretty good, although the ratio is lower than I expected. 12 page views per user, per month? I view more than that while I eat my breakfast.
- pg 17y agoThose numbers are per day, not per month.
- whyme 17y agoCongrats on the growth. I think you're going through some growth technology problems as well?. I find the responsiveness of HN has changed for the worse. I notice the main page doesn't respond sometimes and trying to check out the submissions for top leaders / heavy users yields no results. Just an observation.
- zachbeane 17y agoYou can't use item numbers as an index of activity. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87846 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87846