You don't have to guess. Just check https://news.ycombinator.com/new https://news.ycombinator.com/new and https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.

You don't have to guess. Just check https://news.ycombinator.com/new https://news.ycombinator.com/new and https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments for everything that's posted here. Or take a quantitative approach. HN item IDs are sequential. Using the API: $ curl 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json' 32409711 $ curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/32409711.json" | jq .time 1660125598 $ curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/$(( 32409711 - 14400 )).json" | jq .time 1660031940 so, 14400 items in ~26 hours, fewer than 10 items per minute on average. At the peak you'll see somewhat more than that.