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See this comment from @dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140

• mooreds 4y ago
  Great find! But a depressing comment from dang is in that thread: > That's my theory too—there's a cap on interesting content.
  • tjchear 4y ago
    I actually have a different hypothesis. There's no cap on interesting stories, but rather there's a cap on how long a submission can be noticed. The more submissions there are being posted, the faster existing submissions drop off the first couple new post pages, where people might see them. If a post can't stay long enough to be noticed, people might just elect to hold off posting until the new post space becomes less crowded.
    • toomuchtodo 4y ago
      Attention contention.
    • mooreds 4y ago
      I am not sure about this, because if so, then you'd see submissions at a constant rate. But they tend to cluster around business hours Pacific: https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective I've posted on Sunday and the new page is super slow then. It might be a function of the number of submissions + the number of people available to upvote them (both increase during the work week and decrease on the weekend).