Someone posted a blog post of mine that reached the 3rd-2nd spot on HN for much of a day. The aggregate number of unique views I received on it were about 200k.

Someone posted a blog post of mine that reached the 3rd-2nd spot on HN for much of a day. The aggregate number of unique views I received on it were about 200k. I say aggregate because the number wasn't entirely from HN directly, but it being on HN led the post to be picked up by other channels such as Reddit, Gizmodo, 'ifuckinglovescience' and many other outlets. Several other outlets later reported the news that my post did but didn't link directly, making it so that more people were reading about the topic then my numbers reveal, but I don't think I could take credit at that point because these other outlets were probably doing their own independent research on the topic by then. What was interesting was that 2-3 days later when its spot on HN was probably on the 3rd or 4th page or maybe more, the page was still garnering a considerable number views from HN.