<story><title>Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?</title><url>http://hnpickup.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>Currently &quot;gravity&quot; pulls stories down as a function of time.  If time were replaced by a counter that increments with each story upvote across HN, gravity would be normalized for activity and timing would matter less.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN?</title><url>http://hnpickup.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lpolovets</author><text>Cool idea, although it might turn into a Catch-22: once people know what the best times to submit are, those will no longer be the best times to submit. =)&lt;p&gt;You should label and explain the axes and sliders. I have no idea what the numbers mean, or what the &quot;pickup ratio&quot; is.&lt;p&gt;Also, instead of linking &quot;bad&quot; below the chart, you should make it bold and link the word &quot;submit&quot; instead. I thought clicking on &quot;bad&quot; would take me to an explanation, not the HN submit page.</text></comment>