This is anecdotal and my personal observation. Otherwise, everything else is pretty unpredictable for me to care enough. :-)<p>- Stories are calmer and stay longer in European day-time.<p>- Things almost never happens during Asian day-time.<p>- It is fast, quick, short, and also quick to die during Western day-time (Americas).
I kinda give up on submitting. TBF, I only likely see the power of moderation when it applies to me, but it's getting weird at this point.<p>The bonking of some posts (-200 ranking all of a sudden) is getting odd.<p>Most recent example: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653805">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653805</a>
Google probably stopped updating BigQuery when they started hosting live Hacker News data in Firebase: <a href="https://github.com/HackerNews/API">https://github.com/HackerNews/API</a><p>The live nature of the Firebase data is awesome, but the lack of ability to query is a loss.