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I did a similar analysis to the one posted here and computed a similar heat map to the one you describe, but I marked a submission as successful when it went fr

I did a similar analysis to the one posted here and computed a similar heat map to the one you describe, but I marked a submission as successful when it went from new -> front page, not when it hit 100 points. The result is in ~middle of the post and it seems that weekends are best for chances of a story making it to the front. http://karpathy.ca/myblog/2013/11/27/quantifying-hacker-news-with-50-days-of-data/ http://karpathy.ca/myblog/2013/11/27/quantifying-hacker-news... and the raw ipython notebook with too many details: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/hn_analysis.html http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/hn_analysis.html

mturmon 13y ago
Thanks very much. And on a log scale too! As you noticed, not only do weekends offer a significantly improved chance of making it to the front page, but also: the mid-morning weekday peak seems to cause enough competition that submissions have a hard time making it. This is in contradiction to an assertion made in the OP: "Your odds are slightly better when submitting at peak activity (weekdays at 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST)." The problem being, they did not calculate the odds.