Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting(hnlive.tk)
hnlive.tk
Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting
http://hnlive.tk
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A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I'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.
I remember using .tk domain when I wanted to have a personal website but don't have enough money. I built it from scratch by following the tutorial from a book. Testing locally and deploying on free hosting service, like Tripod (Lycos). I don't know free web hosting like Tripod (Lycos) still exists or not because time has been changes since static web page and its service (GitHUub, BitBucket, and GitLab) appear.
Yeah, it's memories.
Yeah, it's memories.
The scammers here [0] used a .tk domain as well. Might be because there's hardly any identification needed for the registration if I see it correctly.
[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...
[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...
Yeah, I was thinking "oh man, dotTK, the memories" :)
It still is free. You see I'm quiet broke :p
Email me (profile) if you'd like me to buy you one and transfer ownership to you.
Thank you!
I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy.
Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!
Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!
That are a lot of gotchas with free .tk domains though (Google is full of stories).
Do you have any examples? I registered a free .tk domain for dev purposes and it has worked fine for a while just like any domains (and I didn't have to do anything special about it), but for some reasons it suddenly became unreachable for a while from certain computers (my house, office, etc.) but stayed reachable for others (Facebook's servers, for example). It appears to have recently come back in office here. I have no clue why.
IIRC they used to be mass registered for malware repeatedly, some ISPs (comcast / twc?) have int he past dropped resolving the entire tk namespace at times.
Some A/V and endpoint protection solutions also completely block ie/cf/ga/ml/etc that are 90% malware.
Some A/V and endpoint protection solutions also completely block ie/cf/ga/ml/etc that are 90% malware.
The dropped resolving thing must've been what happened with mine. I verified that this is currently still the case at home for me. At office it's fine.
For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page/hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254
For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity is 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)
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.
For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity is 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)
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.
Well, yeah. But because most people don't really check /new on a regular basis, if you're on /new when a lot of people are on it's more likely somebody will see you.
But to get to front, you need at least 9 other people to see your post, and think it isn't junk. Whether or not this happens is controlled by so many variables that it's essentially random: Whether or not your post is good for HN, whether the specific audience (HN carries a few) that would like your post is on at the time, how much they like it, how many people are looking at /new, how many new posts are coming, and so on.
I've gotten a few post to the front, and from personal experience I can say it's hard to know what will make it.
A blog post from Andy Wingo about concurrency and programming language design? Nope.
A talk from Bryan Cantrill at USENIX about how the conference system is broken, and how we can fix it? Nada.
An anecdote on mobile app development? Nothing.
Javascript framework? Forget it.
A garbage collector, an R5RS Scheme->JS compiler, and R7RS Large Red Edition? Zip, Zero, Zilch.
An excerpt from John Carmack's blog about the design of QuakeWorld, Two different Lisp implementations, and a blog post about how CHICKEN Scheme does garbage collection (it does, Cheney on the MTA by the way, which is a pretty cool hack to get cheap continuations, GC, and tail recursion at the same time)? Suddenly, HN cares.
So yeah, it's pretty random. Unless you post an article about an implementation of Lisp. HN really likes Lisp.
But to get to front, you need at least 9 other people to see your post, and think it isn't junk. Whether or not this happens is controlled by so many variables that it's essentially random: Whether or not your post is good for HN, whether the specific audience (HN carries a few) that would like your post is on at the time, how much they like it, how many people are looking at /new, how many new posts are coming, and so on.
I've gotten a few post to the front, and from personal experience I can say it's hard to know what will make it.
A blog post from Andy Wingo about concurrency and programming language design? Nope.
A talk from Bryan Cantrill at USENIX about how the conference system is broken, and how we can fix it? Nada.
An anecdote on mobile app development? Nothing.
Javascript framework? Forget it.
A garbage collector, an R5RS Scheme->JS compiler, and R7RS Large Red Edition? Zip, Zero, Zilch.
An excerpt from John Carmack's blog about the design of QuakeWorld, Two different Lisp implementations, and a blog post about how CHICKEN Scheme does garbage collection (it does, Cheney on the MTA by the way, which is a pretty cool hack to get cheap continuations, GC, and tail recursion at the same time)? Suddenly, HN cares.
So yeah, it's pretty random. Unless you post an article about an implementation of Lisp. HN really likes Lisp.
One could observe that the common theme in your list of submissions there is technical content, not politics or valleywagging or entrepreneurship porn.
Well yeah. I submit what I come to HN to read. And I don't come to HN to read that.
> For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page/hit the front page
Right now (and other times /new is discussed) might be a good idea, though, as people remember to check it out.
Right now (and other times /new is discussed) might be a good idea, though, as people remember to check it out.
The site's under heavy traffic and is struggling for life. It's a low end digital ocean droplet and I guess it isn't powerful enough. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I'll get it back running smoothly when the traffic calms down. I'd suggest bookmarking the site to visit later. Thanks :)
I'll get it back running smoothly when the traffic calms down. I'd suggest bookmarking the site to visit later. Thanks :)
This app is blocked at my work:
Security risk blocked for your protection
Reason: This Websense category is filtered: Elevated Exposure. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.
URL: http://hnlive.tk/
What are you using?
--update:
http://www.imcreator.tk ← This loads so maybe not all .tk are blocked. I'll check with security.
Security risk blocked for your protection
Reason: This Websense category is filtered: Elevated Exposure. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.
URL: http://hnlive.tk/
What are you using?
--update:
http://www.imcreator.tk ← This loads so maybe not all .tk are blocked. I'll check with security.
I think this would be better if you could look only at the rate of other users upvoting other new, recently submitted stories, and submit based on that, rather than overall activity.
See also: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net
This would seem to indicate that times provided by that notifier are not very effective: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=leknarf.net
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What unit is the Y-axis measured in?
The fluctuation in the number of comments & upvotes of the top stories are taken as the metrics.
Check [https://github.com/joelewis/hnlive/blob/master/notes.md](htt... for more info.
Correcting link: https://github.com/joelewis/hnlive/blob/master/notes.md
Time to apply machine learning and maximize my up votes then
How about time of day?
It's cooking. I wanted to validate the project before putting in effort for more stats.
Thanks :)
Thanks :)
Well I think it's a great idea in general, so thank you! :)
It is something I had been wondering about, and it's something only the hn and google people probably have access to.
Wonder could you generalise it for any discussion site, could make a nice simple analytics tool if you could point it at some site and get stats. Just a thought.
It is something I had been wondering about, and it's something only the hn and google people probably have access to.
Wonder could you generalise it for any discussion site, could make a nice simple analytics tool if you could point it at some site and get stats. Just a thought.