This makes me sad. True - there are good times and bad times to post / comment on HN for the maximal karma scores. But that really shouldn't be the case...<p>I really started to notice it when I moved from Indiana (UTC -5) to California (UTC -8). The threads and comment scoring seem very different depending on what time zone you are in.<p>From the East coast, in the morning, you pick up the late UK threads and comments, and at night the late afternoon California threads. From the West coast though, in the morning you catch the East coast threads (already in full swing), and at night, things die down a bit before the few Asia posts start to pickup (I stay up late).<p>It's strange how one site can have a few different feels based on who happens to be awake in the world.
It is a fantasctic exercise for game theory ! If you have success with your post with lot of forks on github and upvotes, we may expect that a lot of people will follow it and the success of HN posts will be not following your script.
I go now make an anti-script ;)
What a great terrible thing. I don't like the idea of using HN as yet another promotional tool and that's exactly what this does. At the same time theres a piece of me who likes the idea. Good going on making and shipping a cool thing but please shut it down?
Just post good content and comments, and the karma will take care of itself. Some times are better than others to post, but when people flood those time periods with linkbait its obvious what they're doing.
I don't know if you played a lot with HNpickup.appspot.com, but it goes down so much that I don't get the data loaded on their frontend exactly when I needed sometimes.