We get about 17-18k unique visitors on a weekday. There are 12385 accounts (by no means all active).

Daily page views are now around 220k.

That is a significant amount. Thanks for the info.

pg, was that 12k # of accounts? Just double checking. I love the fact that we're a small community. 18k views a day is really good for the number of users

I visit HN at least twice everyday. I think that's why HN attracts 18k views per day from 12k users.

We get 220k page views a day from 18k users.

siong, i know you visit at least 3x like i do :D

No matter the count, I think HN is pretty perfect as-is. The conversations actually mean something here, it's nothing like digg (thank god!)

This is refreshing to hear compared to all of the "HN is becoming Reddit, omg!" comments and threads that pop up every couple weeks.

We're all just sock-puppets of eight original users. Wasn't it obvious?

No we aren't.

(this is to keep the non users guessing)

Well, I can touch my toes with my elbows. So I reckon I'm unique.

... oh, that wasn't what you meant?

Say person A is unique. If everyone else is identical to each other, then that's unique compared to person A and vice versa. So two uniques is the lower-bound, right?

What's your point?

I'm insanely busy, but I still find myself visiting twice a day. Definitely hooked.

Take into account that some people use the RSS feed exclusively.

I'll admit I'm an RSS lurker but I do take time to read the comments.