[DupDetector]

You can work that out.

Start from http://news.ycombinator.com/newest go to the bottom of the page and click on "More" until one of the entries says "1 day ago", and there you are. As I write this there have been 282 items in the past 24 hours.

That's on a Sunday, which as the charts show, is a slow day.

Also just checked - the gap from "3 days ago" to "4 days ago" is 604 items. That's 604 items in a 24 hour period during the week.

[robryan]

Pretty much means unless something is instantly interesting to people it will fade into obscurity quickly. It's a tough balance, the main thing that gets missed a fair bit is ask hn posts where only a small amount of the community would be able to chime in on, if those people aren't around at the time they will never see it.

[spicyj]

Wrong account, RiderOfGiraffes!