It would be interesting to know what is the likely reason for each traffic spike...

amichail on March 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why HN is slow lately

It would be interesting to know what is the likely reason for each traffic spike. Perhaps you could have a page that shows this information in a way similar to the Google finance news items:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG

aaronblohowiak on March 11, 2009 [–]

I'd wager it is due to Stack Overflow's recent article.