Ask HN: Best day/hour to post on HN?

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What's the best time to post something on HN? The weekends are "boring", what's the best day? Does anyone have a study describing the relationship between number of comments/votes VS day/hour?

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This guy did some of the research: http://blog.itlater.com/whats-the-best-time-to-post-to-hacke...

Anecdotally, mid-afternoon PST seems to have been the most successful time for my submissions. Posting before PST folks are at work is risky.

I usually save longer articles and papers for weekends, when people have the time to read them.

Thanks for that. I'm at GMT +7 and was wondering. I see peak/low periods based on the rate of change on the home page but haven't put it all together in my head.

I hope people don't start holding off on their submissions for the "optimal" time. I'll have to find a different way to procrastinate in the mornings.

Don't worry, it's like the stock market: as soon as people start optimizing their submission times, any advantage of optimizing your submission time diminishes to zero.

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