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> A number 1 ranking on Hacker News gets millions of views I don’t think this is strictly true. I had a post go #1 for like ten hours. It’s more like 50k views
by tibbar 5y ago
> A number 1 ranking on Hacker News gets millions of views
I don’t think this is strictly true. I had a post go #1 for like ten hours. It’s more like 50k views, counting the visitors from the Reddit repost etc too. A million visitors is a lot, even for HN to generate. (I suppose the comment thread itself might gets millions of views.)