When's the Best Time to Post on HackerNews
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Show HN: Make a Facebook Messenger app in 10 minutes and 100 lines of Ruby
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AirBnB Vows to Fight Racism but Its Users Can't Sue to Prompt Fairness
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America's most dangerous mosquitos
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Book Review: ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley
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Changes to Evernote pricing
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Electrification Causes Economic Growth, Right? Maybe Not
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Embedded web server in pure Swift for iOS UI testing
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AOL, ASK Jeeves, Yahoo: How We Managed in the Pre-Google Years
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Hillary Clinton’s Initiative on Technology and Innovation
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The Best Hour to Post on HackerNews
The best hour to post is 5 AM UTC with 14.32 average votes.
You'll get 7.17 average comments since more people are around then.
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The Best Day and Hour to Post on HackerNews
14.32 votes not enough?
Posts on Sunday at 11 AM UTC get 18.72 average votes and 10.02 average comments since more users are active then.
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The Ultimate Moment to Post on HackerNews
This is it: the ultimate posting moment you've been waiting for.
January 1st at 04 AM UTC is when you should post.
You'll get 32.06 average votes and 13.31 average comments with this perfect timing.
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25th Feb. 19 PM
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21st Oct. 06 AM
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12th Jul. 23 PM
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