[xhedley]

First question posed to data set: when is the best time to post to Hacker News to maximise expected page rank?

Given you posted at your calculated time of 11:00 UTC on a Sunday, will be interesting to see how it does. It’s at 13 right now.

[vxNsr]

I think the content and title also matter. I didn’t know what snowflake was until I read the blog, but the title’s play on “... for fun and profit” got me to at least check it out.