Ask HN: How many posts/replies are being posted to HN every minute?

4 pointslowcoderev3y ago7 comments

Any idea how many posts/replies are being posted to hackernews every minute? Any wild guess?

7 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments shows 5 comments in the last 60 seconds.

Ok, so do you think that's the normal range? Pretty lower than I expected.

I would imagine it fluctuates wildly based on the topics of the day, the time of day, and the day of the week. On a real hot topic you'd see it spike.

joshxyz3y ago

Depends, most of us only type ratatata when company websites are down

anandnair3y ago

It depends on the topic, time etc. Now I see around 40-60/min.

beardyw3y ago

In my experience it goes up a lot when America wakes up

incomingpain3y ago

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