<story><title>Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting</title><url>http://hnlive.tk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I&amp;#x27;ve seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting</title><url>http://hnlive.tk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page&amp;#x2F;hit the front page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9864254&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=9864254&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; positively correlated to the number of pageviews the submission gets overall, though. (i.e a front page submission on Saturday will get less page views than a front page submission on Wednesdays)&lt;p&gt;That post was done awhile ago and I have not looked at the data since, mostly because the algorithm has changed, and the increased manual moderator intervention had made it more difficult to apply heuristics accurately.</text></comment>