Look the best time to submit a article or idea is when you are ready to share the thought.
If you are relying on extra time on HN front page as your marketing strategy you have other problems.
If evenings in California is over-represented that's pg's problem as he tries to grow HN.
Reading this I was tempted for a micro-second to write some script that will submit when I am asleep - but then I realised if I did that, so would everyone else and I would have nothing interesting to read when awake.
I agree with this 100%. I share stuff from my website and stuff from a lot of other websites, and I notice when something does well or flops, but since I have no real vested interest in it, I don't care and don't want to let upvotes dictate what I share. If I think the HN crowd will like it, and they don't that's fine, move on. I'm sure those trying to sell something see it quite differently.
If you are relying on extra time on HN front page as your marketing strategy you have other problems.
If evenings in California is over-represented that's pg's problem as he tries to grow HN.
Reading this I was tempted for a micro-second to write some script that will submit when I am asleep - but then I realised if I did that, so would everyone else and I would have nothing interesting to read when awake.
Now that really would be a tragedy.