I'd rather say it's far less than that. Remember that single reader can access hn via multiple devices and access points, so unique IP count doesn't really feel representative.
2nd week of Dec was less obvious. I am guessing a major site linked to HN but scanning through the stories I am not sure exactly which one it would be for.
So from pg's profile it seem like HN has been around for almost 5.5 years. I haven't been around HN for that long, but was HN initially private and 4 years ago gave access to public? Would be interested to know.
Thanks for the data! Playing with OCR engines lately has gotten me into the habit of wanting to turn static bitmaps into searchable and transformable data. I haven't taken a crack at graphs yet but it looks like things like http://plotdigitizer.sourceforge.net/ might be up for it.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 73.9 ms ] threadI'd also be curious to match up the spikes of traffic with significant news (01/2012 3rd week, 12/2011 2nd week, etc).
Thanks for sharing!
3rd week of Jan 2012 ( http://hhn.domador.net/2012/01/18/23/ ) was all the SOPA/PIPA news.
2nd week of Dec was less obvious. I am guessing a major site linked to HN but scanning through the stories I am not sure exactly which one it would be for.
It would be interesting to overlay prominent events (e.g. the passing of Steve Jobs and so forth) on this to see if/how the spikes correspond.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a rather smallish number}
Perhaps the Dec spike is from the Inquirer article which links to HN. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-pr...
My own numbers from just a few months of sampling
What the heck: here it is on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670178
"One server. An Intel Xeon E5450 with 12 GB RAM." [1]
That's pretty damn impressive.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079442