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I have to say that I did not know about the inurl google search parameter. However, this is indeed a very rough estimate because the parameter 100...100000 also captures the number that indicates how long ago a user account was created, so it would also count accounts that were created a while ago (over 100 days) but were inactive.
I knew about the inurl parameter; it's the range operator that's new to me.
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I have to say that I did not know about the inurl google search parameter. However, this is indeed a very rough estimate because the parameter 100...100000 also captures the number that indicates how long ago a user account was created, so it would also count accounts that were created a while ago (over 100 days) but were inactive.
I knew about the inurl parameter; it's the range operator that's new to me.
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Can't speak for pg, but you should probably follow the site's robots.txt file's rules: http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt It sets a crawl-delay of 30 seconds.
wget does this automatically, in case grandparent doesn't know. I'm not going to try it (because I'm not going to analyze the results myself, so it would be wasteful), but I think "wget -r news.ycombinator.com" would take care of this... It will not visit external links without the --span-hosts parameter (I believe).
Let's start a count. +1
I'd be interested to see some analytics, such as how many users are there with 100+ karma because that's likely a better measure of the number of active users than the number of registered users (many of which are likely inactive). However, that doesn't account for lurkers. Or, the number of users that have logged in within the past week though this is probably something pg would have to give us because I can't think…
100+ karma won't exactly be a good parameter. I am a regular at Hacker News for around 3 months now , mostly just to read the content & up-vote the ones I really like. But my karma has been at 1 forever now, maybe because I don't comment much, not sure. Still karma does not say much.
For me, getting karma is not desirable at all. What's the point of it? I only comment, when I think I have something useful to say, which is not often the case. I never felt the urge to post just so that my karma increases. I think, this really reflects the good design of this whole system by pg.
When my niche website is finished, I'd like to share it with the hacker news crowd, but it's not built to scale to a bajillion users.
If Googlebot is doing its job then there are around 28,700 registered users on Hacker News.