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The Plus Side of HN's Now Large Userbase (or, Thanks HN)
61 points by chasingsparks on April 27, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
I posted a blog entry of mine yesterday. (https://hackernews.hn/item?id=1295462) I had exhausted my research options so the post was me asking for help.

Less than twenty-four hours after submitting it to HN -- on a post that got no up-votes or comments -- I had several people contact me with suggestions, tangential ideas, and even a PDF copy of a presentation made three days ago that talked about EXACTLY what I was mentioning.

HN might have more noise these days, but the signal is still strong.

Thanks, HN.



I never saw the original post, but I am interested in the question you posed. Can you summarize the results?


How a Healthcare Company Can Accelerate Translation of Scientific Knowledge to Practice, http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Epstein.pdf

This is (most) of what I had suggested.


On that note, how many users does HN have? Is there a page where I can get statistics on how active the users are?


Clickable: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=1295462


I thought this was a pretty good post but it didn't get any attention.

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=1299094

I think HN is too big now.


Bro. You opened your account a month ago and your submissions are all self-promotional. Maybe your post didn't get a lot of votes-- but it did get a lot of comments-- most of them suggesting your claims are not credible. Perhaps all of the self-promoting cross-posters are what makes HN feel too big?


I don't know if really is size causing something to get lost. My guess would be that people really don't bother looking at anything beyond the front page.


They do look, a no-upvoted stories get me around 30-40 uniques.




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