Two of my blog posts were on the front page earlier this year, netting 56k unique visitors. The visits were spread over multiple days, and should cover different timezones somewhat well. The analytics are located at an endpoint which looks vital, and should bypass most adblockers.
HN is blocked in mainland China, so stats of visitors from China are likely to be low. HN is similarly blocked in Russia. Users from these locations would come via VPN.
Unfettered linking of the latest Rust AIs, sharing of random peoples' purchases of Framework laptops, heat over GPLv2 vs. AGPL vs. BSD, and discussion of whether nixOS's use of *nix was or was not prior to Unix's use or Shakespeare's use, is clearly too much for some censors.
Doesn't seem to be true, the domain doesn't seem to be in Roskomnadzor's blacklist and I can reach it through Globalping nodes (incl. residential nodes)
No reason to get arrested because of viewing a picture of some massacre on a square in a large city or sent to the SMO because one reads some Ukraine news not approved by their government.
35.1% United States
8.0% Germany
6.5% United Kingdom
5.4% Canada
3.1% Australia
3.0% France
2.7% Netherlands
2.6% India
2.4% Sweden
1.9% Poland
1.7% Switzerland
1.6% Spain
1.4% Japan
1.4% Belgium
1.3% Italy
1.1% Austria
1.1% Finland
1.0% Norway
1.0% Brazil
7.0% Other countries