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Ask YC: How many unique HN users are out there?

23 points by jmtame ↗ HN
How many unique users exist in the HN community? Just curious.

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pg
We get about 17-18k unique visitors on a weekday. There are 12385 accounts (by no means all active).

Daily page views are now around 220k.

jmtame
That is a significant amount. Thanks for the info.
geuis
pg, was that 12k # of accounts? Just double checking. I love the fact that we're a small community. 18k views a day is really good for the number of users
siong1987
I visit HN at least twice everyday. I think that's why HN attracts 18k views per day from 12k users.
jmtame
siong, i know you visit at least 3x like i do :D
pg
We get 220k page views a day from 18k users.
wlievens
Take into account that some people use the RSS feed exclusively.
RossM
I'll admit I'm an RSS lurker but I do take time to read the comments.
thomasmallen
We're all just sock-puppets of eight original users. Wasn't it obvious?
yters
No we aren't.

(this is to keep the non users guessing)

Angostura
Well, I can touch my toes with my elbows. So I reckon I'm unique.

... oh, that wasn't what you meant?

vlad
Say person A is unique. If everyone else is identical to each other, then that's unique compared to person A and vice versa. So two uniques is the lower-bound, right?
debt
What's your point?
daemon
I'm insanely busy, but I still find myself visiting twice a day. Definitely hooked.