Holidays Impacting HN Activity

Discussions explain anomalies or low activity in Hacker News metrics, upvotes, or posts as resulting from public holidays, weekends, national observances, and vacation periods across countries.

📉 Falling 0.4x Other
2,525
Comments
20
Years Active
5
Top Authors
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Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2007
5
2008
16
2009
49
2010
67
2011
84
2012
67
2013
105
2014
83
2015
86
2016
102
2017
110
2018
155
2019
161
2020
177
2021
289
2022
286
2023
218
2024
264
2025
195
2026
6

Keywords

e.g US SUSE a.k USA xkcd.com U.S holiday holidays december day christmas weekends october national compute new year

Sample Comments

_b8r0 Oct 28, 2010 View on HN

Ah, I thought this was including public holidays.

hulitu Nov 3, 2022 View on HN

February 29th may be a working day. December 25th is usually free in Christian countries.

subscribed May 15, 2025 View on HN

Sure, weekends and holidays will do.

aloisdg Aug 25, 2020 View on HN

Humble guess, some people don't work during holidays

chrisgd Nov 20, 2017 View on HN

Thanks, was thinking there might be some vacation, days they don't work.

lionkor Aug 26, 2023 View on HN

public holidays are not included iirc

TheSwordsman Jul 4, 2021 View on HN

Too bad this was posted on a US holiday weekend. :(

Izkata Aug 8, 2025 View on HN

Not really a counterexample, that's a holiday, not a regular date.

euroderf Feb 29, 2024 View on HN

Why that particular day ? Maybe just because June didn't have any holidays yet ?

jacquesm Mar 31, 2023 View on HN

They may want to take the occasional holiday...