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Four days in the life of HN
- pg 16y agoThis is a fri through mon inclusive. The sat was actually the day of startup school. Orange = requests/sec; black = memory used; red = % time spent in gc; blue = median msec to serve an item page; green = median msec to serve the frontpage. The last two are unnaturally spiky because I use a very narrow window (because we use the same data to to drive our Leftronic screen at YC). So the blue spikes don't represent anything that would have been observable to users. The slowly rising gc percentage (red) is a sign of memory leaks. They used to be a lot worse before Rtm finally tracked down the main culprit this summer. We're now getting a bit over 900k page views per day.
- pama 16y agoHow much did HN grow in the last year or so?
- pg 16y agoA bit under 2x.
- derwiki 16y agoHow many unique visitors?
- pg 16y agoWe now get around 75k uniques on a weekday.
- dzlobin 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152389 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152389 Looks like we're getting close to doubling in uniques, compared to 45K 8 months ago.
- pygy_ 16y agoThis isn't very surprising. See [1]. Also of interest, HN vs Clojure vs Common Lisp [2]. 1. http://www.google.com/trends?q=hacker+news&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=hacker+news&ctab=0&ge... 2. http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%2C+hacker+news%2C+clojure&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%2C+hacker+news%2C...
- skbohra123 16y agoany plans for monetizing ?
- siculars 16y agoHN is sort of a loss leader for ycombinator. Free advertising for all the YC comings and goings. HN is the leader in mindshare amongst those interested in startups, startup technology and startup culture and (obviously) startup news.
- 619Cloud 16y agoI want to spend a few hours and get the Hummingbird realtime scrolling visualization implemented. See the demo at (required HTML5 browser such as Chrome/Safari). http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/ http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/
- dools 16y agoSo either a) hackers work less on Saturdays and Sundays or b) hackers work more on things they're REALLY INTERESTED IN on Saturdays and Sundays ;)
- Mithrandir 16y agoIn "The Hacker Ethic", there is an allegory used describing how hackers work that uses Sundays and Fridays as the example: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ecd9b8 http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ecd9b8 (Google Books) http://slashdot.org/books/01/03/06/1751250.shtml http://slashdot.org/books/01/03/06/1751250.shtml (Slashdot review)
- dools 16y agoThe Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen ... TL;DR
- cosgroveb 16y agoI have a hard time taking this book seriously since in the preview the author while focused on Christianity and the Protestant Work Ethic says that Christ "Rises to His rest in Heaven" on a Sunday conflating the Resurrection (on a Sunday) with the Ascension (on a Thursday). Minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, I know!
- rottencupcakes 16y agoHow substantially modified is Hacker News code base from news.arc in arc 3.1? What parts have been modified / extended?
- pmarin 16y agohttp://arclanguage.org/item?id=12468 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12468
- ed 16y agoIf only you had applications to read more often. HN would get cool stuff like this all year round :)