[dredmorbius]

Interesting side note.

A discussion elsewhere had me looking at how much front-page HN activity is attributable to what number of profiles. Using my crawl data mentioned above:

  - 2 submitters with > 1,000 stories
  - 170 w/ >= 100
  - 2,812 w/ >= 10
  - 19,165 w/ >=2

That very nearly perfectly follows the rule I'd given above: reducing the items by a factor of ten (here: number of front-page posts) increases the submitters by about a factor of 10 (roughly: 2, 200, 2,000, 20,000).

Half of all HN front-page stories since 2007 were submitted by just 2,092 profiles, of 43,598 represented in all front-page stories. As of 2021, Whaly.io found 767,496 active profiles since 2005: <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>. (Post or comment activity.)