Saturday is Hacker News' quietest weekday — 81,469 new stories, just 303 below Sunday

Asked:

“During what weekday, does Hacker News have the least amount of new submissions (not counting comments), displayed in UTC time, grouped by weekday and hour, using data from 2025 and 2026?”

769,222 new story submissions (comments excluded) from the ClickHouse hackernews_history table, 2025-01-01 through 2026-09-02 (2026 is year-to-date), grouped by UTC weekday and hour — 168 cells in all.

Submissions per weekday × UTC hour

Weekday totals, ranked

Findings

Saturday is the least-active weekday at 81,469 stories — only 303 fewer than Sunday (81,772); the gap to Friday, the quietest workday, is nearly 29,000. play.clickhouse.com

The single quietest cell is Sunday 04:00–04:59 UTC with 2,075 stories; Saturday's floor is 05:00–05:59 UTC with 2,085. play.clickhouse.com

Tuesday is the busiest weekday (128,723), peaking at 15:00–15:59 UTC with 9,405 stories — 4.5× the quietest cell. play.clickhouse.com

Every weekday bottoms out at 04:00 UTC except Saturday (05:00) — the overnight lull for the US-centric audience. play.clickhouse.com

Weekday summary

Weekday	Total stories	Mean per hour bucket	Quietest hour (UTC)	Stories in that hour	Source

Live ClickHouse hackernews_history table, type='story' only (comments excluded), UTC timestamps 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-02; 168 weekday×hour rows plus 7 weekday aggregates. Counts are raw totals over the window, so weekday exposure differs slightly with calendar composition and the partial 2026. Per-hour cell values are shown in the heatmap; hourly rows omitted from the table for space.

This report was generated automatically by Keenable SELECT at a user's request, from publicly available web sources linked herein. Keenable does not review, verify, or endorse its contents and makes no representation as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness; AI-based extraction may contain errors. Nothing in this report is investment, legal, financial, or other professional advice. All trademarks and referenced content remain the property of their respective owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. To report an error, rights concern, or request removal: legal@keenable.ai.