I submitted a blog post a while back that made it to the front page and it hit about 11,000 visitors from HN and ancillary HN feed sites alone in 6-8 hours. The

I submitted a blog post a while back that made it to the front page and it hit about 11,000 visitors from HN and ancillary HN feed sites alone in 6-8 hours. The traffic was elevated for the next couple weeks and even my website, which was barely linked from the blog, saw a 50-60% increase in traffic lasting about a week after the post. I still saw traffic from this spike up to a full month later.