Very misleading. Does not account for point inflation over the years (when a 15 point article or comment was equivalent to 230 points now.) There is not much one can infer from simply dividing points by days registered.<p>Maybe we need to find out the average point total of the top 20 comments (separately, articles) for each month before calculating anything else. Would pg or the search.yc guy(s) be able to calculate these numbers?
I thought this was going to be the submissions of a day, sorted by karma, and the top 100 of those. i.e. <i>HN top-100</i> submissions <i>(sorted by karma) per day</i><p>I've been hoping for such a list, because it would enable me to catch a day's top stories without having to check in throughout the day. This would help reduce the time I spend on the site...<p>The "<i>best - Highest voted recent links</i>" extends over at least 8 days. It's not restricted to the last 24 hours. (It looks like the same ranking algorithm as the frontpage with less gravity (no, I'm not going to download the source just to check that).
Only 10 karma per day. I do not feel as addicted now.<p>It is interesting that so few people contribute so much; the community feels bigger than it is. But I think it is mostly "the regulars" and the occasional random commenter. I wonder what Reddit is like.<p>BTW, it's weird that Google does not have a "fork this document" feature. I don't want to request write access; I just want to play with a copy for myself. (Actually, I just want to sort things.)
Just to note that PG is not on this list. I believe it is because he intentionally keeps himself off the leaders page. I recall reading something a while back.