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The Best Time to Post on Hacker News
- alishobeiri 3y agoHey HN! As a weekend project, I analyzed Hacker News posts to figure out what does best. Here are some of the most interesting things I found, let me know if you'd like me to add any others! The best time to post on HN: - Sundays are the best day to post with posts created between 11am-12pm getting the highest average upvotes Most popular post of all time: - Stephen Hawking has died (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008) There are ~80k posts every 4 months - About 20k posts per month on HN Best keywords to use in the title: - Any mention of a tech company (google, apple, facebook, etc) or open source seems to do the best Best performing url to link to: - github.com (not surprising given the strength of open source mentioned above) Posts with negative titles tend to do better than posts with positive ones - Posts that have negative titles get ~4 more upvotes on average than those that are more positive The dataset I used for the analysis was: https://huggingface.co/datasets/julien040/hacker-news-posts https://huggingface.co/datasets/julien040/hacker-news-posts. Would love to hear what you think and if there's anything else you'd like me to add!
- _e4mv 3y agowhat's the time zone?
- alishobeiri 3y agoAhh dang, forgot to mention that! The timestamps were Unix time, so the timezone is UTC. Thanks for pointing that out
- beardyw 3y agoThe humourist Alen Coren wrote a book called "Golfing for Cats" with a swastika on the cover on the basis that those three elements (cats, golf and Nazis) would make it a sure fire hit. I think the best time to post is when you have something worth posting - unless you are involved in SEO.