Writing

Things we measured while trying to get a small developer tool in front of people. We keep finding that the received wisdom in growth is either unmeasured or measured once and copied forever, so when we check something and the answer is useful we write it up — including when the answer is that we were wrong.

• The best time to post on Hacker News is just the emptiest timeEveryone says post Tuesday morning. Across 186,890 stories and 182 days that window is the worst named window in the data. The effect is real but it is competition, not attention — and the whole lever is worth about 1.4x.28 July 2026