The Best Time to Post on HackerNews

java-man · 2024-02-26T16:46:07

Very impressive: code, charts, diagrams.

One question: which time zone the data is plotted against?

alishobeiri · 2024-02-26T19:25:57

Hey java-man,

Thanks so much for checking it out, I am the author of the original notebook. I forgot to mention it initially but the timezone is UTC as was already mentioned.

If you have any feedback, would love to hear it as well!

java-man · 2024-02-27T15:48:12

Nowhere on the page does it say UTC.

When publishing, one must always remember to do three things:

  1. explain abbreviations
  2. provide units of measurement
  3. make a spelling error in the title so the reviewers can easily contribute

alishobeiri · 2024-02-27T17:38:08

Oh sorry, I meant as already mentioned by the other commentor. You are right that I forgot to add that to the initial notebook :)

Hahahah I like #3 especially

arp242 · 2024-02-26T17:18:53

arp242 · 2024-02-26T17:20:16

seltzered_ · 2024-02-26T17:33:17

When is a good time to submit a story to Hacker News? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058492 (June 2012)

alishobeiri · 2024-02-26T19:29:52

What I find somewhat funny about this is, I did a whole analysis to find the best time to post on HackerNews, and posted at the best possible time.

But this post, that was posted on what is supposed to be a worse time actually ended up doing better :)

Thanks a lot for checking it out in any case!

Ajay-p · 2024-02-26T20:39:12

Tangentially related.. When I was at uni I got very bored one summer and started making a spreadsheet of when certain people posted to a message board I frequented. This started with 3 people then became 15. It was very interesting to then plot that because I could make educated guesses about their sleeping habits, when they were at work etc. especially given what they wrote.

I could then make inferences as to their geographical location and other identifying attributes just based on when they were active on this message board. Regrettably I am a data nerd and would love to see such an analysis done on Hckrnews, etc. but I doubt it would be of interest to most others.

vivzkestrel · 2024-02-26T17:48:42

could you please do a couple more of these for reddit, facebook, twitter, youtube etc?

alishobeiri · 2024-02-26T19:23:47

Hey vivzkestrel,

I am actually the creator of the original notebook. Happy to do more, do you know of any good datasets for these that would be a good starting points?