Thanks! Glad you like the article! My advisor from grad school had a blog post on the front page as well, with similar vote counts. He tracked about 5,000 UV t

Thanks! Glad you like the article! My advisor from grad school had a blog post on the front page as well, with similar vote counts. He tracked about 5,000 UV total for the 48 hour period it was popular (24 hours on the front page). So the views seemed in line with my expectations. I think the value of HackerNews is not in the quantity but the quality of users. I only had two spam/garbage posts on my blog, and no spam signups that I noticed. At its core, this community is a set of really passionate, generally positive early-adopters.