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I think it's more accurate to say that the set of YC applicants is close to 100% included by HN users, but I suspect that the set of HN users is much larger. D
by araneae 17y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that the set of YC applicants is close to 100% included by HN users, but I suspect that the set of HN users is much larger.
Does anyone have an idea of how many HN users there are? I know several users (in person) who have been around for several years, but have never applied to YC.
- jacquesm 17y agoHN gets about 30K visitors / day I believe, and I think that most of those are 'repeat' visitors. There are a significant number of 'lurkers' though, plenty of them have never logged in. A good rule of thumb is 90/10, 10% of your users creates 90% of the content. If HN follows that then there should be about 3K active members logged in and at a minimum voting once every day. You can apply the 90/10 rule recursively, and the leaderboard seems to confirm that.