Ask HN: When is the best time to post to HN?

1 pointazat_co3 comments

1) Monday lunch time 12-2pm PT - people want to relax from work after the weekend 2) Weekend - nobody else is posting 3) Friday after lunch - people are getting ready for the weekend and don't take on major tasks

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time at which you post influence the ability to reach front page.

* You can find an explanation from pg here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704

* There was a post discussing rankings in reddit/delicious/HN here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234749

* There are other posts discussing specifically the HN algorithm with answers from PG : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

* And you can use the tool HNPickup to tell you if it's a good time to post or not : http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

Thank you!

This is not a good time :-)

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