Just wondering if there were any released metrics or clever ways to estimate the volume of users looking at Hacker News (say at least once a week?). I imagine it is a high multiple of the number of posters/registered users. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hacker%20news%2C%20hn%2C%20news.ycombinator.com%2C%20ycombinator%2C%20yc&cmpt=q)
Here's some data from Alexa: <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com</a>
I think the very best submissions got something like 2k points. Since those are really interesting, I would assume a significant proportion of the readers upvoted them, let's say 20%. It would mean 10k unique <i>registered</i> visitors a day. I don't know about the non registered visitors, but let's say for the sake of guessing that they are 10k, that would be (very approximately) 20k unique visitors a day.