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by blobs 2327 days ago
I assume the amount of HN articles per day has increased over the years since 2007 along with the growth of HN popularity. So, when I see a trend in some subject would it take that into account? Otherwise it could easily not be a trend but an increased amount of HN users.

Just curious before I get excited.
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UglyToad 2327 days ago
Yeah, peaks in story count nowadays are relatively smaller than peaks from 2007-2009ish. You can use the "Display as % of stories" button which is right of the "Group data by" drop-down to show the data as a % of daily/weekly/monthly stories posted to the site.
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donkeyd 2327 days ago
Great question. I've had an issue with this with a tool I built myself. I hope it takes it into account!

Edit: Just noticed this in a blog post from the creator:

> Since there are more posts per-day nowadays it's also useful to look at the count as a percentage of all posts in the period.

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